Work Blues?

Not everyone can be in their dream job. In fact I am willing to bet that 95% of people are not in their dream jobs. If you are one of the 5% then well done you.

Obviously sports people, actors, musicians and drs are in the jobs that they always wanted to be in. they have trained/studied for god knows how long to get where they are and for that they have to be commended. I wish I was lucky enough to be one of those people.

There are very few people around that know exactly what they want to do. When I was a kid I wanted to be a professional sports star. That is the standard for the vast majority of 6 year old boys. This clearly has not happened (I am obviously a victim of falling through the net), and I currently reside doing a disgracefully boring job in admin.

Most days I trawl the internet looking for things to read. There are not enough websites out there for me. As my office is open plan as well and I sit next to the insanely busy accounts payable team, I feel quite bad. Everybody that comes into the office can see my screen, and whilst there is a lot of swearing and talking to their computer screens going on behind me, I sit blissfully looking at my email’s or other people’s photos that they put up on facebook.

You won’t hear many people say this, but, I get paid far too much money for what I do. Don’t get me wrong, I would much rather get far too much money than not enough but there is only so much of being bored that one can take. When your boss walks past your desk, there is only so many times you can be pretending to stretch or read the same email.

I am in a rut and I know it. I am going to have to leave this job in a couple of months due to visa restrictions. That will force me to look for a new job. The anticipation of doing that does not feel me with the excitement of a new start. The chances are I will find the exact same job, doing the exact same thing, hopefully with more work though. Trust me, the days that I actually work are really good. the time flies and as they are so infrequent, as amazing as this sounds, I actually enjoy doing the work. There is nothing fun about invoicing out a 5000 line phone bill but because it takes all day I actually enjoy it, how sad is that?! Even reading this now makes me think ‘wow son you are weird.’

With the economic conditions as they are, I am sure there are many more people like me, sitting in jobs that do nothing for them and wish they could be doing something else. Unfortunately circumstances dictate that they have to stay where they are, there are not that many learning opportunities in a completely different industry that interests you anymore, as no one is leaving those jobs. It is a vicious cycle. I am as guilty as mentioned before as the rest of you for not doing this, but I am going to make a change. I am going to force myself to get a job that I enjoy or train for one (three should be some kind of uplifting music going on right now, if this was a film produced in America the American flag would be flying somewhere in the background). So my friends, stick the crap job up their arses and let’s get ourselves a decent one! (Rallying cry, I am now picturing myself with one arm in the air holding  sword for some reason, this is what boredom does to you). That is the thought for today, tune in tomorrow for something else. Laters