 What if your engineering manager is not giving you challenging or exciting work? In these engineering manager 80-20 shorts videos, we help engineers become better managers and leaders. And in this video, I'd like to answer a question from an engineer who's struggling in this situation where his boss just won't give him challenging work because his boss is afraid that this engineer will overtake him. This happens often. In fact, it happened to me in my career. So what I recommend in this situation is keep asking for that additional work or that more challenging work. Every opportunity that you have, the squeaky wheel gets the oil. You have to keep voicing those desires, whether it be to that supervisor specifically or his supervisor or other leaders in the firm or in the office. And then when you do get any type of work, you know, do the best you can, deliver the highest quality work and continue that process over and over. And keep asking that manager for those challenging projects. Tell him that you think that you can do it. And if you do that over time, they may become more comfortable. And what I can tell you is if they don't, then you have to take other action. Then you have to go to his or her supervisor, depending on who it may be and at what stage in your career, and explain the situation. Say, listen, quite frankly, I'm getting bored here. I'm not getting the challenging and exciting work that I want. And I'm frustrated about it. What can I do about that? And have an open conversation. The biggest thing about progressing as an engineer is you need to feel comfortable with your manager and their managers and be able to have these open conversations. And if you can, then you're really not going to progress. And your company is really not going to get the most out of your talents. So it's really a win-win for both parties. In fact, I had an experience like that in my career where I did become stagnant because the manager that I was working for wasn't giving me that work. And it never materialized. And I ended up having to ultimately make a career move. But the bottom line is, is that you shouldn't be doing work that you're not excited about. And if your company's not going to help you to avoid that, and it may not be the best place for you, however, you need to take action on that to make your goals a reality. Please subscribe to our channel here. We put videos like this out on a weekly basis. And we will continue to help you engineer your own success.