I’m a two-year PQE corporate associate at a US firm – the average Gen-Y moaner. It’s a job I fell into because I couldn’t think of anything better to do at the time. Now, with no-one else to blame, I am bored out of my mind at work and it’s destroying my relationship with my girlfriend and parents, affecting my sleep and concentration span, and sapping my personality.

I detest arriving every morning, leave as early as possible every afternoon, and regularly fantasise about emailing a farewell to my PA and simply walking out. Although I really like my peers and enjoy the absurd salary, I have absolutely no interest in the corporate or financial worlds, find the clients boorish, the work worthless and cannot understand how those above me can cope with the mindless, menial, miserable drudgery which brings tears to my eyes. Consequently, I have no interest in getting any better or progressing.

My question – given the need to keep up with the mortgage, how can I gently encourage my firm to make me redundant?

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