I get bored, what to study for something more challenging?

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Hi there everyone, first post here so hope it’s on topic.
I’m 32 and I been working on and off since I was little. I always find jobs and got every job and got in to any education that I applied for.
I’m “pretty”, got great grades, quick to learn and always try to improve my skills.

I can’t handle most bosses and usually strive to become supervisor or boss within the first month of working. Not that I like to tell other what to do either but I do like to help people learn new skills and I’m very good at organising.
I can’t handle someone micro managing me or others or treating people unfairly.

The problem I got is that I get bored. As soon as I learned how to do something and then figured out all the flaws and how to do things in the most efficient ways all my passion disappears.
It could last a little longer if I help others learning.
I’m super social and usually love my coworkers but the same can happen with people if I feel like I learned enough from them I still care for them but they become boring to me if they don’t open up on some deeper level.

At this point I tried 22 different jobs, lived in 7 different countries, got 3 educations and still just looking for what I’m supposed to do.

My passion is writing and people but sadly I’m a lot less organised in my private life then at work or school. And using technology is one of the few things I really despite so my writing ends up being thousands of papers of stories that never fully connect and that just looks like a total mess to anyone else.

I always live in communities with a lot of people and hate being alone even for a second. Because I struggle taking time for myself I guess I loose myself quite a lot and maybe that is why I get bored.
Actually even the word I or me is really weird to me and usually I always use the word we. I don’t really know how to be a separate individual person I’m more of a tool to help others.

Is there any good jobs or educations for someone like me or is there any tricks to the trade of how to learn to take alone time to focus on a hobby so that can become my job? I really want a passion that last longer then half a year. Sorry if this topic already been up many times.

Can kind of relate. I moved half way across the country a few years ago and now that I am on my feet I want to try something new and move to a new location, but before I do that will need to get a second Bachelors degree.

Find a district that you'd be happy to live in. Share house so you're not alone and helps to lower rent.

Set up for writing. Set up three files on your tabs for links you've collected for:
1. Courses
2. Skills
3. Languages

Find and learn as many free and cheap courses as you can, just to scratch that itch when you get bored and so you can learn basic tec at your pace.

Learn skills that you could write short books about or incorporate into fiction.

Learn two minority endangered languages.

Start writing short books, self published, in English and those two languages. You'll keep the books to a length that you can comfortably write, contribute to keeping those languages alive, and give yourself a motive and framework for continued study.