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I never thought I would get sick of being infront of a computer, but I am. I am sick of being underutilized and given completely mindless tasks. I can honestly say that I have not used my creativity or problem solving ability in weeks! I sit here and cut and paste into websites all day, or other monkey work. I am so sick of it!

I hate jumping from job to job though (have been here 4 months, previous job 6 months) but I don't know what to do! My husband is trying for a job in Seattle so I see that as my only way out. Grrr!!!!!

Sorry I just needed to vent! I did not spend 6 years in college doing what a high schooler can do-(no offense to any high schoolers out there)

...welcome to the club
I'm bored to dead, posting things in my new blog and reading info (in Dutch) of Schiphol Airport

Gabriela

Sounds like most things that create an income are rather boring!

Considered taking a hobby and turning it into a business?

you know... I actually like my job, but I feel my energy is drained by the fact I have to be here every day for specific hours... I really resent that.... 9to5 desk jockey is such an unnatural routine for a human being!

Also I am just really frickin lazy and would rather be reading, surfing, travelling, writing... hell, doing my laundry... anything but being chained to a desk.

that said, let me try to log off (harder than it sounds!! lol) and concentrate on an interesting part of my job... I'm writing about food, which is fun...

I'm with Mina. Even if I was doing work I liked, the confines of work itself would suck all the pleasure out of it.

NLborn...how about being a temp? That way you can move around a bit, check a few different things out, and still get paid? And if you don't fit at a company, you are not committed.

Yep, this is one of those days where I feel like throwing myself on a stake.

2.5 years in this cubicle (well, actually this is my third cubicle..they like moving people around) is getting pretty old. Cross my fingers grad school works out next year (or sooner?)...

HEARTBREAKING, even for a hard ass like me. God, these (professional) lives sound horrible-if I had that life, I'd kill myself! The world is full of opportunity, folks, and for anyone who has the desire and passion for travel (we are the exceptions, not the rule) there are LOTS of options. Open your mind, get out of the box. Don't settle for a job that makes you contemplate suicide-that was your parent's life!

The only way to to truly be free is to work for yourself (personal experience-25 years since I worked for someone else, sans politics). Look around, find a niche. Remember: it is money they have and dreams they lack. Consult on something you know about. Open a temp service. Put an ad in the paper for busy work that says "we also walk dogs." Be a travel guide. Go work for Moorings for a year. Sell somthing. Hell, join the Peace Corps-at least you'll travel! But DON'T settle for a shit job!

"I never gave people hell, I just told them the truth and they thought it was hell"
Harry Truman

I totally know what you're saying. At the moment, for me it's a combination of being in limbo as far as grad school and funding (the program won't accept students unless they have grant money already lined up), and admittedly just laziness, that I don't want to look for 'just another job' like the one I have. So I'm banking on grad school at the moment.

I was being dramatic about the stake thing; I've been down before, but never contemplated suicide; I don't look at life that way. Just bored w/ this job! And my job is tolerable some days, and some days I feel lucky to have really good benefits. But did I say I hate cubicles?

LOL, thanks for the pep talk salmo

I dont have a shit job.

sometimes, I just hate working and like to complain about it

I did spend a year part-time self-employed, that was fun, I surfed a lot and grew dreads, but I didnt have insurance or money to travel.

annie- If my husband gets this job in Seattle I am not going to make the mistake of settling anymore- so I may temp a bit just to see what the corporate culture is like out there. Then again I may just try and work for a bakery...who knows! I hate that I am banking on him getting this job to change my situation- but it would be a clean break.

If he doesn't get it, I have to find something else or just have a talk with my supervisor.

Salmo- I need to just get the balls and try something different- I guess I am just scared to go out on a limb.

<<Salmo- I need to just get the balls and try something different- I guess I am just scared to go out on a limb.>.

To quote my Grandfather "you will never get kissed unless you run the chance of being slapped."

I completely understand the boredum thing. I like my job, but it's boring as hell hen we're not busy. Plus I am the type of person who gets very bored, very quickly if I'm not challenged enough.
I swear everyday it's not busy I feel my intelligence being sucked out of my head, pretty soon I'll be sitting around drooling and not knowing what day of the week it is or what my name is anymore. lol

NLborn...what happened??

Well, I feel I need to weigh in. Yup boredom sucks BUT boredom is not always bad when you consider the alternative
I quit a well-paying govt job to do a RTW for a year.

when I came back I worked for myself (given my profession that was basically the only choice)
I spent that year stressed out like a hamster on a wheel to make the same cash i did at the boring ole govt job with no bennies

I got offered my old job back and JUMPED! Yeah, i hate the 9-5 must be here grind with the Man looking over his shoulder at me, and the absolute boredom when we're not that busy is painful, but I have a new appreciation for boredom. I have my own office, more gracious leave time than most jobs (3 weeks & can save up more time -- i'm gunning to get built up to two months to bolt) + holidays, etc.

so to alleviate boredom I've got the door closed studying spanish for my upcoming trip to Chile a-ha-ha and reading bootsnall website

I can completely relate!! I'm so sick of being bored!! Even when I'm busy it feels like I'm doing the most mundane tasks ever!!
Oh well, in exactly a month I'll be flying to LA to begin the adventure of a lifetime!! I cannot wait.

and what makes me so sick and sad about it all is that I realize, My Life Is Going By. I realize the sands are slipping out of the hourglass slowly but surely and my time is running out.

It's running out and this is how I'm spending my time, helping somebody else get ahead while I just get by. Sucks. At least I have Bootsnall and likeminded folk to commiserate with.

I gotta start a business.

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Originally posted by Rockabye:
and what makes me so sick and sad about it all is that I realize, My Life Is Going By. I realize the sands are slipping out of the hourglass slowly but surely and my time is running out.

This is why you should live as though this is your ONLY life, even if you believe in an afterlife. Live as though there is no tomorrow. Now if I could only follow my own advice.

Yeah, the boredom thing. Oh god sucks my living being. Anyway there are two worse things than The Boredom.
1. Winter coming, there is something almost satanically (if you believe in him) evilly horrible about having cold 3 hour long days. cold is alright, can handle it but 3 hours of sunlight (Ok exaggeration) and then the killer - the fact that you don't get any sunlight because from mid October through March the sun goes on holidays to the southern hemisphere and all the clouds come to Dublin.
2. This is my personal worst. People who say things like 'Live as though there is no tomorrow!' I will personally crucify the next one on my enormous extremely sharp pile of debts.

Ooops, sorry I didn't actually type all that whiny stuff did I????