I have two part-time jobs, both city government jobs. I am lucky, I know, but my job involves a lot of repetitive work. They are both entry-level jobs and I have been working the first one, with no promotions, for 7 years.

I started my second of these jobs about six weeks ago, thinking I would be able to eventually get promoted, and then promoted again, to a decent salary. Currently I have loads of debt and no assets- at all. I'm at the beginning of my 30s.

So I come in to the new gig six weeks ago with no preconceptions of the staff or work environment. And it's even worse than in my first job. Employees hide all around the office avoiding doing any work, people are miserable all the time, and my new boss hasn't said one positive thing to me yet-- not even that it is nice to have me there. I am taking all of this personally especially when between the two jobs I am now working full time. I don't feel like either job will lead to anywhere and I feel like hardly anyone, if anyone at all, is inspiring to work with. I just want to go home and do anything else besides work, namely have a beer. Then I have to wake up all morning and do it all over again.

I'm not sure what I want, none of the foreseeable jobs with significant growth in the future appeal to me. At this point my main objective is to pay off my debt and then work less but have no luxuries, because I can't think of a better career. I know I am smart but can't understand how that would translate into the real world.