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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: professionaldevelopment</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/professionaldevelopment.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2016-12-30T14:09:00+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>How to tell my bosses I'm bored</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2016/Dec/30/how-to-tell-my-bosses/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2016-12-30T14:09:00+00:00</published><updated>2016-12-30T14:09:00+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2016/Dec/30/how-to-tell-my-bosses/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;My answer to &lt;a href="http://ask.metafilter.com/304258/How-to-tell-my-bosses-Im-bored#4406351"&gt;How to tell my bosses I'm bored&lt;/a&gt; on Ask MetaFilter&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The magic word here is &amp;quot;challenging&amp;quot;. Don't say you are bored - say you do not find your current workload challenging enough. Any good manager should be ready to respond to that.&lt;/p&gt;
    
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