Reply With QuoteYes, at present, but only for another month, when it ends. Pays OK, though, so what the heck. My post count here is increasing as a consequence. Also making considerable use of alt-shift-x at wikipedia.
Anyone else here have a boring job?
Yes, at present, but only for another month, when it ends. Pays OK, though, so what the heck. My post count here is increasing as a consequence. Also making considerable use of alt-shift-x at wikipedia.
Here, this should keep you entertained.
Got anything on the Armenian Genocide?
kthxbye!
So what exactly is your job?
I could use some boredom at mine. I'm always kept busy.
My job is extremely boring. I mostly just post stuff to our website which is 95% automated and takes roughly 2 hours a day. I still work for 7.5 though. 11 years til retirement. At least I am overpaid considering most of my job could be done by monkees.
I've just been at my job for a very long time (6 years in another month). So, it takes little time to do for me now.
I did one of those for 7 years. Quit, floundered for a few months, and went back to school. Now I have a new, more fulfilling job and a lot o' debt. Worth every extra cent of interest I am paying, however.
And when that fails, there's always this...Originally Posted by ElGuapo
Yes.
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Today is my last day before law school. I'm archiving the last of my data, and I've already had my exit interview ("I've prepared an alphabetical list of people that can suck it...").
/me forwards link to this post to Dirt's employer.
P.S. just kidding.
I work a 12 hour shift on saturdays. I usually end up bringing in something to watch on dvd. It is so boring, that I fall asleep if I try to actually work on something productive after the 8th hour.
Security guard at the Unpopular Products factory?
Both of my jobs are pretty boring. Weekdays I work at a call centre, and it's usually pretty busy, but 96% of the calls are the exact same (orders), so while I'm doing something, it's pretty tedious and boring. Between calls we're allowed to talk, read, or even listen to stuff with headphones, so I usually load up my mp3 player with my favourite podcasts. No Internet access, though, which kinda blows.
On weekends I work the front desk at a community centre. During the summer there's very few programs running on weekends, and the attached library is closed, so there's very few people walking around. While reading a magazine or novel is tolerated by my bosses (how aren't actually there), I unfortunately can't really stick a headphone in my ear and then yank it out when people walk up to the desk. Also no net access there. Not even wi-fi, which you'd think a community centre would have, especially one with a library. I'm pretty much alone all day in the office, although once in awhile the facility operators will drop in to chat. Plus, since I'm the only one there, I can't even leave for my breaks. I make do with a decent book (although I'm usually so tired there it's hard to stay focused on it) and a stack of magazines, but on some days it's the longest eight hours ever.
How's that for boring?
Clearly you need a DS tromik. Convincing your co-workers to buy one would also work in your favor, since then you can play wirelessly with them. Or you could get a PSP I guess, but I'm not sure what the multiplayer options are like on it.
Seeing as how I'm using my real name..
I am fully engaged in my software development work. I like to give 110%
It is very rewarding. . .
I work all day slaving non stop and never play videogames at work.
. . .
No, seriously, as of a few weeks ago this is true. New office. Dammit Janet!
Maybe you could get one of those official-looking security-guard-style earpieces.
- Alan
I don't think my bosses would be cool with that either, though. Convincing my co-workers to buy me one? Where/when the fuck do you live? Russia thirty-five years ago? Also, my "co-workers" (facility operators who are guys that set rooms up for events, take care of the arenas and pools, and who fix and maintain equipment - they're insanely busy compared to me) are 48 year old guys who've probably never played a videogame in their lives. Okay, maybe they've played Golden Tee or Big Buck Hunter, but that's about it.
There is no "you" in that sentence, though it is a little unclear. I was suggesting that in addition to you buying one you convince them to buy themselves one so you could have hot MP action, but if your boss isn't down I guess none of that can happen. Just tell him it's an MP3 player except with two screens and fancy graphics! Also I was really thinking more about the call centre rather than the community centre, but either way.Convincing your co-workers to buy one would also work in your favor
Unless it's the official one with the curly-phone-like cord just before it wraps around the ear, I don't think that's be very cool.
Maybe I should get a set of headset headphones, the ones with the mic attached. Then I could plug in the green lead into my mp3 player and just leave the pink mic one unplugged in my pocket. Then I could hang one of the center's little walkie talkies from my belt, and it would look like I was using a wireless phone headset. The only thing is if someone came to the desk and needed me to call somewhere to get some information, I'd look pretty dumb when I picked up the regular phone handset.
Hmmmmmmmm...
That's a good idea. As people approach the desk he could just put a finger to his ear, give them a steady gaze, and say "It's okay Frank, I can see they are unarmed."
Ditto, except I shoot for 130%.
Ah, my bad.
And we're not allowed to play videogames at the call centre. We're not even really supposed to text with our phones, although most of us get away with it.
Don't you start a thread like this about once a month, Dirt? Seriously, it's time to start looking for another line of work.
I'm the boss. I mostly give orders and stroke my fluffy white cat.
I'm bored to death but that's what most jobs are is doing the boring stuff that other people can't stand to do. It's just that you can do it better than they can and that it bores you a little bit less. That allows you to pay other people to stuff that really really bores you.
That's how modern capitalism works, there's also the chance you'll stumble on something that allows you to make enough money that you can spend your days flying helicopters to between your penthouse apartments and your yachts while you cheat on your ex soap opera star wife with a team of swedish swimsuit models. That's what keeps you going until you get to the age where you realise that it isn't going to happen for you and then you're working to stave off the possible pain of living a life of bitter poverty when you're 70 and too old to even be the walmart greeter.
If your job allows you to keep a roof over your head and lets you put a little away for retirement while giving you enough health insurance that bankruptsy isn't a fall down the stairs away then be happy with what you have.
If that doesn't work then take a couple classes at school, start a small business on the side, do some charity work, or get yourself a 6 month subscription to WOW. Those are my suggestions anyway.
The actual nuts and bolts of my job is pretty tedious (Data Analyst/DBA) but I'm sad enough that chucking big piles of data at one other and seeing what comes out is interesting to me and I like writing the queries.
I've gone self employed, just got a nice payrise to offset working out of shitty office with no redeeming features or even shops nearby and I just picked up a couple of part time contracts just for the fun of it with a side benefit of keeping the taxman happier that my company wasn't formed purely to help me pay less tax (which, of course, it was).
I am generally bored to death at work too, hence my heavy posting during work hours. Whenever I have a real task to do, I try and milk it for as much as I can. Whenever I get bored of forums and other sites, I work on whatever it is I am supposed to do for a while.
Despite that, my employers think I am a super fast programmer. I may end up trying to learn directx 10 at work even though it has nothing to do with my job. Maybe Ill write a game, although that is very unlikely, but at least it will distract me for quite some time.
I suspect this is at least partially due to the fact that you regularly pick the brains of professional developers here.
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