Sending your post to my daughter that just got a new job. She knew that it would be boring but needs the money. She didn’t realize it would be SO boring. She has a good work ethic, so I hope that the managers in the other departments will put her to good use. She thinks it is nuts how the other people in her department spend most of the day hanging out and laughing about how easy it is and they get paid for it. “And dad - it IS easy - but there isn’t much to do - it is SO boring! The day takes FOREVER!!”
I knew very early on I could never sit for long at any desk work let alone in a cubicle. Needed to be moving about so all work I’ve done over the years has been active work. Best as a Regional Sales Rep.
I have first-hand experience with this problem, and I can tell you, to someone who wants to make a difference, having a job like that is EXCRUCIATING with all caps.
My first full time job out of college was at a small community hospital, and there were two women working there who had been there for years. They were nice, but weren’t bothered by the lack of work at all. I had days where I had one patient! I would spend time doing this task or that, but you can only rearrange the supply shelves so often before you begin to go stir crazy.
I would bring books like Tolstoy’s War and Peace into work and read them until my rear end was sore and I was cross-eyed.
I would look at the clock all day long, and it advanced...slowly...in five minute intervals. It was horrible. Eventually, I could not stomach it anymore, and found another job at a high paced hospital that paid me far better, but boy, did they ever work me hard. I had a German physician who interviewed me, and with his heavy Bavarian accent, said “Ya ya ya...we vill pay you well, but you vill work hard for it!”
Heh, he wasn’t kidding, but that didn’t bother me a bit! The days flew by, to the point I would look up a the clock and panic because I still had so much to finish before I could leave!
I prefer that...:)