focusing on boring things

Heineken Helen

GTD, you're just in a rut. Do you think the rest of us like our jobs? nope! But I leave at the time I'm supposed to leave every day and once I leave work, it's back to living. If you're working 12-15 hours a day no wonder you're fucking depressed. You can either keep making excuses while complaining and asking for help... OR you can do something about it. My feeling is that you're gonna go with the former... so get used to being depressed, get used to being in a rut... cos it's not gonna get any better! That's just how life is. Going with the flow is great but sometimes it just stops flowing and ya need to make some waves yourself. Or ya can just sit back and let it eat you up... your choice. We've all seen for ourselves that none of US can give you that push. So do something... or don't... it really IS that simple.

GreenTeaDisease

Heineken Helen wrote:

GTD, you're just in a rut. Do you think the rest of us like our jobs? nope! But I leave at the time I'm supposed to leave every day and once I leave work, it's back to living. If you're working 12-15 hours a day no wonder you're fucking depressed. You can either keep making excuses while complaining and asking for help... OR you can do something about it. My feeling is that you're gonna go with the former... so get used to being depressed, get used to being in a rut... cos it's not gonna get any better! That's just how life is. Going with the flow is great but sometimes it just stops flowing and ya need to make some waves yourself. Or ya can just sit back and let it eat you up... your choice. We've all seen for ourselves that none of US can give you that push. So do something... or don't... it really IS that simple.

well after 6 months when my job didn't get any better I did start to look into things. I think I mentioned it earlier, but I can't leave until *at least* august (my signing bonus is long gone). but I've gone back to my job spreadsheet from grad school and am revisiting some of the ideas on there. even though I don't want to move at the moment, I'm checking the world bank and the UN every day (even though my professors told me I'll never get hired at either one). I need something that will either pay back my loans (federal government) or will pay me enough to to cover them (will be difficult).

it's just the day-to-day in this office that I don't know if I can handle. I want to do a good job, I always want to do a good job. But I hate only have one boring thing to think about at a time.

iluvcats

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

does it bother anyone else as much as it bothers me? Seriously it's like a gut reaction for me to resist putting my head on things I am not interested in. it sort of makes me head tingle and I feel slightly nauseous.

I need to go to school again...I wish I had the money. work makes me want to gauge my eyeballs out.

I don't understand your question, sorry!

do you mean that you'd rather not work on a boring task at work?

iluvcats

if work is boring...

you quietly put the head sets on a play a pearl jam bootleg.

definitely a mood lifter.

GreenTeaDisease

iluvcats wrote:

I don't understand your question, sorry!

do you mean that you'd rather not work on a boring task at work?

I mean *can't* work on boring tasks (at work or anywhere else, but most them seem to appear at work).

Heineken Helen

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

I mean *can't* work on boring tasks (at work or anywhere else, but most them seem to appear at work).

join the club who the fuck can in fairness?

iluvcats

I'll repeat myself...

put on the headsets and play a pearl jam bootleg.

definitely a mood lifter. works for me.

i'll edit it, or play a foo fighters' cd.

GreenTeaDisease

Heineken Helen wrote:

join the club who the fuck can in fairness?

obviously lots of people can! or else nothing would ever get done. I'm surrounded by people right now who can.

GreenTeaDisease

iluvcats wrote:

I'll repeat myself...

put on the headsets and play a pearl jam bootleg.

definitely a mood lifter. works for me.

i'll edit it, or play a foo fighters' cd.

eh I listen to music all day. it doesn't really help.

Heineken Helen

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

obviously lots of people can! or else nothing would ever get done. I'm surrounded by people right now who can.

well they're just freaks.. or they have a different concept of boredom... the things you enjoy at work may be boring to them.

Some people can just grin and bear it... for others its torture... but it's perfectly normal

Heineken Helen

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

eh I listen to music all day. it doesn't really help.

:rolleyes: Well DON'T listen to it then... see if THAT helps.

Are you really looking for advice on how to make work interesting? Cos sometimes work is just boring! That's why they PAY us to do it.

GreenTeaDisease

Heineken Helen wrote:

well they're just freaks.. or they have a different concept of boredom... the things you enjoy at work may be boring to them.

Some people can just grin and bear it... for others its torture... but it's perfectly normal

I wish I were part of the former group :(.

iluvcats

Heineken Helen wrote:

Cos sometimes work is just boring! That's why they PAY us to do it.

good point

Heineken Helen

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

I wish I were part of the former group :(.

Not many people are! They're a tiny bunch. So just get on with it, like the rest of us.

i'm sorry but this thread is just ridiculous 'I find it hard to focus on boring things' ??? EVERYBODY does... if you're making THAT into one of your problems, you're wasting your time... cos that may be the most normal 'problem' I've heard you come up with.

Now excuse me while I go find the ignore function before I pull all my hair out or knock myself out while banging my head against this brick wall :eek:

GreenTeaDisease

Heineken Helen wrote:

:rolleyes: Well DON'T listen to it then... see if THAT helps.

Are you really looking for advice on how to make work interesting? Cos sometimes work is just boring! That's why they PAY us to do it.

well it's always boring for me. I can't do it so I feel horrible because I shouldn't be getting paid.

I wasn't thinking that anyone could give advice on making it more interesting, I was just really wondering if anyone else felt like sort of dull pain and nausea when they try to focus on something really dumb and tedious. I get this urge to smash things and break things, including myself. like it's a good thing there are no baseball bats in my office, because I would be dead (I sit here and wish I had one to smash things and myself with). I tend to hit myself in the head with my water bottle and my hands when I have to do this work or I want to just jump around and smash things like I just HATE it (and sitting in the little office for most of the day- you know, just sitting and getting fat- doesn't help). :(

I'm sorry that you don't believe me that I really hate it so much. :(

blackredyellow

Let me get this straight.... you are recently out of college, and you don't have a job that you like? Welcome to the 90% of the young workforce.

Keep looking for new jobs or building contacts through professional groups, and hopefully you can find something when your year comes around. You took the signing bonus knowing that you would have to stay for a year (or return it), so you have to suck it up and deal with it.

Being in a miserable job sucks, but you have to make the best of it, or at least make the best of your time when you are away from work.

GreenTeaDisease

blackredyellow wrote:

Let me get this straight.... you are recently out of college, a

no I've been out of college for 8 years.

meme

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

I went to a psychiatrist and a psychologist. they just looked at me like I was nuts and had no idea what to suggest).

This is funny.
Probably not very good psychiatrist/psychologists

blackredyellow

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

no I've been out of college for 8 years.

Ok, in 8 years of working, you haven't found a job that you enjoy, or figured out how to cope with a boring job?

pjtradeking

PJPixie wrote:

You need a hobby.

That could be the BIGGEST understatement EVER made on this board.