It's the slow season at work, and I'm pretty bored. What grinds my gears is that it's pretty nice outside, and the cherry blossoms. And I'm stuck here pretending I'm busy.
Wish I could be bored at work :banghead: not really the bored part but a decent job would be nice! :pray:
When I did work I would give an employer about a month to utilize my ambition properly. After that it was on to the next job! I was always amazed at how many employers would start offering raises to keep me when it didn't have anything to do with money. Having already explained this to them I figured that was another sign it was not the right fit, they listened to me but never heard a word!
Now that you got me thinking I see one of the issues keeping me from finding work, I haven't considered anything that requires having a roof over my head.......
My work IS boring much of the time. There are more procedures and specifications to building subs than you can even imagine. Much of my job includes literally hours and hours of reading to ensure specifications are followed for everything right down to nuts and bolts.
Not a single part goes into one of these things without God knows HOW many man hours of research and scrutiny...
Unfortunately, there is also NO outside contact (via internet, texting, nothing - not even a ipod or whatever those things are) during the work day which mean no checking in on the site, no nothing.
Heck, my office doesn't even have windows and is within a BUILDING that doesn't have windows so I don't even get to see outside during most of my day unless I slip out for a smoke at lunchtime...lol
I sit in front of a computer most of the day. If I am not bored it usually means the $#!t hit the fan and there are 10 people in my office wondering why the network/internet/files server/or email is down :woohoo: . The perils of being a network manager :banghead: . When I get bored I usually go on here and a couple other forums. I also have a habit of of seeing what the latest and greatest things I can put on one of my guns. Being bored usually cost me money. :whistle:
I just finished school so I am working my butt off at two jobs paying off loans. I have to have at least one job that is boring. The other job I do is teaching an online class so that one is rarely boring.
I was never bored, always something to do. In fact I worked standing up. I would come to work and my secretary would catch me in the hall and tell me all the lines are on hold for me, who was the most important and the line of folks in the hall were trying to see me. I was typically in the office only 4 days a week, Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon, the rest of the time I was on a plane in the US. Once a year a did a wrap up tour leaving out around the 1st of Dec and returning about the 23rd, racking up about 32-35,000 air miles on the trip.
My fone rang 24 hrs a day, had my first cell fone in the late 80's and it rang all the time.
mrraley wrote: It's hard to be board at work when this is part of it...
I think the issue is all the machines run themselves these days. Set the origin, press the green button. come back in 42 minutes.
I think we should have come up with some really good questions for mrraley about the ArmaLite factory/manufacturing process. Then write up an article: "10 Questions with ArmaLite's Master Armorer"
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