On Friday and Monday we publish the problems that will feature in a forthcoming Dear Jeremy advice column in the Guardian Money supplement, so readers can offer their own advice and suggestions. We then print the best of your comments alongside Jeremy's own insights. Here is the latest dilemma – what are your thoughts?
I am 31 and have been working for the last year and a half as a receptionist and executive assistant for a very prestigious cultural foundation. I have a bachelor's degree in history and a master's in design history, which I completed just after the economic crisis started.
I initially thought this job might be a way to move up, either in this particular organisation or in another. But a year into it, I realise that this is not going to happen. No one seems to care that I am eager to be challenged, intelligent and hardworking. The organisation is highly hierarchic and I am at the bottom.
My parents and husband think in the current economic climate I am lucky to have what is a considerably cushy job. But I am frustrated and bored and feel overlooked and powerless. Do you have any suggestions for someone in my position? Am I whining for no reason? At 31, is it too late?
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