when is it ok to leave a contract job?

[Becca <becca_price -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

I just started a contract writing job - it's supposed to go through October - March.

At the interview, it was implied that I'd be developing procedures - 
actually getting to write them. As the project is shaking out, however, I won't do any writing at all, only some (light) editing and (heavy) 
formatting to put things into a Word template. And since the template 
we've spent the last few weeks developing will be given to the people 
who are actually writing the procedures, mostly what I'll be doing could be done by someone a few steps above a clerk/secretary.

I started the job on October 8. So far I've been lucky to spend 20 hours 
at work, and that mostly checking my email and reading blogs, because 
they're not ready for me yet. They *may* have more for me next week, or maybe the week after that. But again, I was told pretty definitively in the last 
meeting I was in that all I'll be doing is ensuring that the formatting 
is correct, even when the work does start coming in. (we have a hard 
deadline by March, so I anticipate February will be very busy)


Is it kosher to start looking for a new contract, this early in a project? and if so, should I even mention this current project on my resume?

i should add that the company I'm contracting for has spent a lot of time in my first 2 weeks training me - marketing, and a clinical discussion 
(this is a medical devices company) and regulations (that have no effect on my work, but do on our general field)... I hate to leave so soon 
after they've invested so much in me, but... lordy, I'm bored.


 
Regards,


Becca
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