| Adapted from an online discussion. Dear Carolyn: I’m in a dead-end job — adjunct teaching — in a smallish town married to a person who has lost all his curiosity, and we have kids. I don’t know how to fix any of it: I’m not going to get hired full time, since they hire Ivy grads for full-time tenure-track jobs. I don’t know how to make my spouse curious and have intellectually stimulating conversations with him again — our schedules misalign, and he plays a lot of video games. The kids are grand, and I love them to pieces, but it often feels like all I do is feed/launder/ferry them around. My friends are nice but busy, and our interests don’t overlap much. For example, they’re into church stuff and classical music, and I’m … not. Mostly I just feel like all this is drudgery, and I’m so bored and unfulfilled. Is there a fix that doesn’t involve blowing it all up? I don’t think I’d be happy doing that, either. — Just Unhappy | 
