Exactly how bored are you with your job?

[iguana_tonante]

Where is the option "it's something that I am passionate about and I usually love doing, but do have the odd afternoon when I can't be arsed to do anything useful so I spend hours jumping from link to link on wikipedia or tvtropes (not to mention TrekBBS)"?

It can be also stressful and exhausting, especially when I am on a deadline or I am due to give a lecture or presentation, but I actually work better when I'm under pressure.

 

[K'Ehleyr]

I know I'm just naturally funny(!), but what exactly did I say this time? I didn't even manage to sneak any weird latin phrases into any of the letters this time (that's one of the ways I sometimes keep myself interested when doing them...).

It's the 'dictating letters' bit ~ do people still do that?
I have a vision of you with brogues up on your desk, leaning forward and pressing your comm button saying 'Miss Brown, will you bring your notebook in'...

Do you not just email or ~ God forbid ~ type yourself? We know you can do it!

God forbid, indeed!

I don't dictate in person (though have done it on quite rare occasions, if it's a really brief note and I realise I need to write it while I happen to be in my secretary's office). But yes, I do dictate letters regularly (daily, really) using a dictaphone and then give the tape to her to type up. If it's a busy day, I'll even do them in the car, while driving from one workplace to another - that saves me time doing them at the end of the day or leaving them for the next day.

It's SO much faster to dictate than type them myself. I can touch-type, but still, it would take some time to do a letter that's about a side and a half of A4 or so, and then I'd still need to email it to her to prettify the letter by formatting it, putting all the headers, filing it in the right bit of the electronic filing system, etc, etc. Whereas dictating such a letter into a tape takes just a few minutes or so.

Plus, it means I don't need to remember details like who/where exactly I'm sending the letter to, since she can look up the exact name, etc, etc and I can then quickly check that - and everything else - is all correct when she leaves them for me to sign before she sends them out. Much more efficient. She's good enough that I almost never need to correct anything anyway.

... and when you stroll into the office, in your own time, and toss your bowler onto the hatstand (pur-lease tell me you have a hatstand), she is wearing a crisp white shirt, a knee length skirt and ready with the Earl Grey ~ hot.

Seriously though ~ do you not want to read a letter back and re-think your words or actually know who you are corresponding with?

And the bit in bold is just too condescending for words.
Would you like me to dictate that for you!

Again Absit invidia

I fucking shoveled snow all day long. And that's what I've been doing since Sunday. Every day. All day long. So yeah, first option since the main job has similar super exciting tasks. Seriously, I think I may be getting dumber. I fear that at some point I will not be able to get a job, not because there's a lack of jobs, but because I'll be too stupid to get the jobs I want to now.

Manual labour is s'no joke ~ do you see what I did there



sorry!

I make calls to people trying to convince them to :

Come to an event,
let me conference with them so we can talk about the idea of sitting through a product demo,
show a product demo,
watch as my boss takes the viable leads and runs with them(usually away, far away and sometimes right off a cliff due to his ignorance)

Bored? Why should I be bored? When the day is over I have no feeling of accomplishing anything real and worthwhile whatsoever.

Your boss is an ass ~ just remember not to be like that when you are in power. And try making roses out of tomatos when you get home ~ it may help put your life into perspective

My job can be exhausting, daunting, and draining but it's never boring. If there is anything that keeps one on her toes it's a kindergarten class.

You, TSQ, don't count!
You love your job and you are very good at it! And you like children ~ you are truly blessed. The world would be better with more people like you who actually wanted to teach

Where is the option "it's something that I am passionate about and I usually love doing, but do have the odd afternoon when I can't be arsed to do anything useful so I spend hours jumping from link to link on wikipedia or tvtropes (not to mention TrekBBS)"?

It can be also stressful and exhausting, especially when I am on a deadline or I am due to give a lecture or presentation, but I actually work better when I'm under pressure.

I would love the pressure of a proper job ~ other than the creepy massage guy asking where his cheese baguette is.

I need to use my brain ~ this is getting more obvious!

Otherwise I will end up like Emher and find mine is frozen too.

 

[Commander Rabbit]

I chose the passionate and love what I'm doing choice. It's a slight overstatement, but closer than the others.

Main thing I did today: Finished a project that was boring in itself but satisfying to have completed. And that got me enthusiastic thanks from a supervisor who is usually, um, lacking in enthusiasm.

 

[Tiberius Jim]

Not bored at all. I started my new job today and am excited about learning more. It isn't my dream job but it will help lay some ground work to land it eventually.

 

[Trippy]

Passionate and love my job as a high school English teacher

Yes, I actually LIKE teenagers (even if they are frustrating at sometimes, they are also funny as hell)

Today was a bit dull though; I had a PD session on classroom mangagement in the modern classroom in the AM at our board office, then got to school to teach my afternoon classes to find out it was a snow day, and no students! So I marked papers all afternoon, and was quite bored by the end of the day, and missed my students.

Got all my essays marked though!

 

[JustKate]

I went for "passionate about and love doing" even though, like Iguana, I feel as though that may be an overstatement. Most days I like my job a lot, some days I love it, and every now and then, I loathe it. But I must say, it's never boring. The main problem is that there is just too much to do, and most of it is stuff that really needs doing, too.

And I agree with K'ehlryr that I honestly didn't know anybody (except maybe a way-up-high CEO) dictated letters any more. In the company I work for as well as the sister company that's housed in the same building, a building in which hundreds of people work, I'd guess that MAYbe...4 of them...perhaps has many as 6...dictate their letters. All the rest of us compose our own, though those less talented on the keyboard probably have their administrative assistants pretty their letters up before they go out.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

I've stayed too long...like being in high school for 10 years.

 

[scotpens]

I make calls to people trying to convince them to :

Come to an event,
let me conference with them so we can talk about the idea of sitting through a product demo,
show a product demo,
watch as my boss takes the viable leads and runs with them(usually away, far away and sometimes right off a cliff due to his ignorance)

Although you're not in real estate, for some reason, Glengarry Glen Ross keeps popping into my head.

Do the people in your office curse a lot?

 

[Crusher Disciple]

I fucking shoveled snow all day long. And that's what I've been doing since Sunday. Every day. All day long.

I never realized that Swedes hated snow so much. I just figured it was a fact of life for you guys.

 

[scotpens]

I went for “passionate about and love doing” even though, like Iguana, I feel as though that may be an overstatement.

Pretty much the same here. I do typesetting and design for a small commercial printer. At least half of it is donkey work -- setting up business stationery, brochures, and the like from standard templates, or squeezing several pages of medical dictation instructions onto a 3-1/2 by 2-inch foldover card. But I do get the chance to flex my creative muscles every now and then.

At least I have the satisfaction of using my skill to create a tangible product. It seems nowadays everyone is a "consultant" of some sort. You know what a consultant is -- that's someone you pay to borrow your watch so they can tell you what time it is.

(No slight intended to anyone here who has “consultant” as part of their title. Trek BBSers are . . . DIFFERENT, of course. )

 

[TorontoTrekker]

I'm a Web developer, and there's always something to work on. Not only that, but many of the projects I've been working on lately have been either challenging or educational. I'm currently rebuilding large chunks of a client's website as they hired a third-party design company to redesign their site. (I've mentioned it before - it's here.) Some of their changes require significant rethinking of how the site is built, as all of the content is generated dynamically based on what the site admins input into the content management system. (On one or two things, I'm actually pushing back a little because this design firm doesn't really understand that - their proposed redesign would be fine if it were a static website, but it isn't.)

I'm also trying to leverage the CMS as much as possible to drive the redesign of our corporate websites. It's kind of fun, figuring out ways to make the same code generate two websites that look nothing alike.

In other words, Chrinfinity keeps me too busy to get bored.

 

[scotpens]

. . . I'm also trying to leverage the CMS as much as possible to drive the redesign of our corporate websites. It's kind of fun, figuring out ways to make the same code generate two websites that look nothing alike.

Yes, I wish more Web designers knew how to do that. I know very little about website design, but it's obvious that a lot of blogs and BB's use the same basic software.

 

[WillsBabe]

So what did you do today at work?

Shed loads of admin; dozens of phone calls; more admin; and met with 3 clients. I helped two of them find new homes. My job alternately bores the hell and stresses the hell out of me. If it weren't for my outstanding colleagues I wouldn't be able to bear it.

 

[Canadave]

God forbid, indeed!

I don't dictate in person (though have done it on quite rare occasions, if it's a really brief note and I realise I need to write it while I happen to be in my secretary's office). But yes, I do dictate letters regularly (daily, really) using a dictaphone and then give the tape to her to type up. If it's a busy day, I'll even do them in the car, while driving from one workplace to another - that saves me time doing them at the end of the day or leaving them for the next day.

FYI, I can't help but think of anything but this throughout this entire exchange:

OK, now things are getting really weird. I can't see anything after the colon. Is this some sort of post-post-modern statement on the vacuity of the exchange?

I have no idea how I screwed that up, but here's what I meant to post. And to think that was before I'd had any beer tonight...

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdCQwigh6H8[/yt]

 

[Captain Shaw]

I bet i have the most boring job here.
I am putting a light bulb in a box with a light sometimes i put the bulb straight into the light its self.
Also i am putting new stickers on the box or making up a new box.

 

[Emher]

Manual labour is s'no joke ~ do you see what I did there



sorry!

Ugh

I fucking shoveled snow all day long. And that's what I've been doing since Sunday. Every day. All day long.

I never realized that Swedes hated snow so much. I just figured it was a fact of life for you guys.

Takes all kinds. There are the people who hated last winter since there was snow on the ground for a very short time, came late and melted quickly. And there are the people like me who think that's awesome.

Let me just say that I several reasons for seriously consider moving, one of them is definitely snow. I do not like cold.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

Let me just say that I several reasons for seriously consider moving, one of them is definitely snow. I do not like cold.

Perhaps this explains all the Viking raids on Europe.

 

[Emher]

Yeah that was pretty much anger management

 

[Tomato]

I'm Uber bored. So bored and angry (my salary decreased this year), that I'm quitting my job. Long story short I could be going to business school or unemployed. But I would rather chance it than suffer another month in this hell hole.

To top it off. I give them like 4 weeks notice, as I'm the only person who does my job and I told them I'm not going to push out more spreadsheets. The asked to stay for another 2 weeks, I said okay to train the new girl who could or could not know how to use Microsoft excel. I'm a forecast analyst so there are times I have like 4 spreadsheets open all linking to each other.

Now as a kicker my ungrateful VP tried to shovel more work on to me. I politely told my manager No. And I'm going to see what happens. Last day is March 19, but I'm willing to leave on March 1st.

What a company. I stay longer to do them a favour and they try to work me to the bone before I leave.

 

[Warp Coil]

Growing bored, mostly because I've been in the same position for over three years now and I'm ready for a change. The job itself has evolved quite a bit over time, though, and I am doing different things than I used to. Except that those new things that I do are mind-numbingly boring and tedious and involves more data entry than anything else. My daily tasks just don't challenge me most of the time. I almost pray for some sort of crisis or last-minute emergency because at least it makes the day more interesting.

I'd be happy to stay with the company but it would be really nice if there were more opportunities for advancement. I keep browing the internal job postings and there's just nothing that I'm well-suited for. The few random jobs I have applied for have gone nowhere.