Is your job boring? A lot of people who sit at a desk all day might say yes, of course their job is boring, but it’s just a job. The thing that most people don’t realize and might want to consider, is just how damaging a boring job can be to your life outside of work. This is the situation I find myself in now.
As I might have said before, I work in a computer lab. I sit in front of a computer for hours on end 3 days a week with little to no actual “work” to do. Sometimes I read blogs or news articles. Other times I go on Twitter and Facebook or check my email. But after I’ve done all that with hours left in the work day to spare, I find myself falling into mind numbing habits.
Refreshing the same pages over and over again, staring at an empty text-entry box. I have read so many invigorating blog posts and ebooks lately that I should be rearing to go, but when it comes down to it, a lot of the time I just find that my mind is numb, empty, unable to focus and I get nothing done.
Whatever, it’s just a job, right? No. This is the dangerous part. I’ve found that even after working 6-8 hours in a computer lab, I still go home, open my laptop and continue the cycle. Work has made my mind so tired from doing nothing all day that all I want to do is zone out when I get home. In essence the entire day is spent on just zoning out for the sake of $7something an hour. This case is extreme, perhaps, but how many people get home from a mind numbing job and all they want to do is watch TV to “unwind” or, essentially, numb their mind some more?
The worst part is, a lot of work that I actually need to do for my own purposes is on the computer so just shutting it off isn’t going to solve anything. So here’s what I’m going to do. Tonight, when I get home, before I turn on the computer, I will write a list of all the things I want to accomplish on the computer. This will hopefully eliminate the floundering around online that will essentially only numb my mind more.
I’m writing this post now from work, it’s the first productive thing I’ve done all day and I’ve already been here for 5 hours. All that other time was just wasted floundering. No more floundering!
