Hi Mefisto,

I feel your pain! I had precisely the same situation when I graduated, I ended up doing data entry fo what seemed like eternity, straight A’s and a first class honours degree and working a job so tedious I thought I’d die of boredom, surrounded by people with whom I had absolutely nothing in common with and mostly disliked. If I wanted to I could do all my work in an hour but this then left me with the quandary of how to look busy for the remaining 7 hours. Have faith though my friend, it’ll work out for you in the end. If it helps I found a number of ways to relieve the tedium: photocopy a book which you can then read in complete comfort at your desk while giving the illusion of working, make an event of lunch ie. Take a full lunch break and eat properly. What really saved my life though and prevented me falling into a pit of despair so deep I’d never even get through a job interview if I got one was writing, I started a blog based predominantly on material gleaned from the characters I worked with who to be quite honest were predominantly a bunch of plonkers. I too love to write and when I started to view the workplace as a rich source of character material and inspiration I actually looked forward to going in there every day. I stayed there a year and a bit I think before finally getting into professional work and a real career but I always look back on that time now with a smile and sometimes re-read that blog which even though I say so myself was bloody funny!

Anyway, hang in there, have faith and patience and you’ll get where you need to be. You write well btw