I worked hard to earn a degree. I have very high aspirations in my field and when I graduated I graduated with a 4.0. I was so excited to start in this new field, IT. Bright eyed and bushy tailed and eager to learn, grow, and develop. I was contacted by a decent company and offered an amazing position. I read the job title and was under the assumption that my manager was a top level technologist ready to take me on and showed me the ropes. I had dreams of all the stuff I would learn and competencies I would attain. I was so excited to start work and start learning and understanding the IT environment and what it entails. During the first 6 months my manager gave me very little actual work to do. I was really puzzled. Literally about 20 minutes of work for an 8 hour shift. This can't be real, can it? Am I in the twilight zone? As he would complain of having too much to do, constantly walking around and typing on his computer and doing all kinds of tasks that I'm fully capable of learning and doing on my own, but he just kept doing it. The weeks turned to months and turned to years. It's been 2 years now and I don't even know how I made it this far. I literally have nothing to do most days but the little bit of work that I actually do, I suppose they need me in this position to do it, even though a high school graduate with no experience in IT what so ever could come in the front door right now and do my job with 5 minutes of training. I stay here because the pay is good and I need to pay bills. I'm not really gaining any meaningful competencies what so ever in this job, so finding another job is going to be extremely difficult. I find that the hardest part of my job is staying awake. It's so incredibly boring here and quiet its mind numbing. I have literally nothing to do but sit around and scroll social media. It's almost like being in jail. You're in 1 tiny room all day and all afternoon with nothing to do but stare at the wall. I want to go to sleep so bad right now. It's so quiet. No one is talking. I have a absolutely nothing to do. I want to quit but I can't. The time is going so slow…..️