YOUR boss is kind, helpful and supportive, but you are bored with your job.
Why not give him or her a copy of How to Increase Employee Stress, an academic paper by D. Schulman which appeared in a journal called Supervisory Management? It is based on the idea that stress is an ''effective incentive and can be a challenging influence in one's life''. Here is a slightly shortened list of Mr Schulman's recommendations: Delegate work at the last minute and say it must be done by tomorrow. Then don't look at it for several days.
Give only negative feedback and don't tell how you would like something to be improved.
Play favourites. Instead of building a team, assign projects according to how you feel personally about each employee.
Play one person against the other. Be manipulative, even though you know the information that you have given is not true.
Give a poor performance appraisal with the idea that an individual needs to improve in all areas of work because no one is perfect.