If you have ADHD this is extra struggle...and everyone get bored but people with ADHD have pretty much chronic boredom and that why we tend to be little bit out there and sometimes do some kind crazy stuff... we just want stimulate our brain so it start dishing out some dopamine
Thanks. I believe talking about these matters going to change the world. My experience with boredom and being uncontent is slightly different though. I just shared on my channel how I cope with boredom
Most people work 8 hours 6 days a week where I live. I had a shitty 10 hour 6 days a week job myself not a long ago for the equivalent to 1.70 dollars an hour
I don't agree with the statement though. I think that in the example of Henry Ford that he used, getting rid of meaning and curiosity were merely byproducts of the pursuit of efficiency. Ford was on the leading edge of modern care of employees actually, paying extremely well, and reducing workers to the 40 hour work week we see as common today, where others in the time were requiring 6 days a week of 12 hours etc. He seems to imply that the main objective was to get rid of enjoyment at work, where its pretty obviously an unfortunate side-effect of the pursuit of efficiency. If one can have efficiency and maintain meaning and curiosity, I'm sure that would have been preferred.
Just realized I turned 35. That's 12,750 days on this spinning orb. Most of them have been a waste doing nonsense in school or at work. Every day is groundhog day. I've basically forgotten how to feel since work is so painfully mind numbing. 12,000 or so more days and I can retire. What a waste of a life.
I just joined work and I get why I thought adults always to seemed to be sad... I just want to get out and try a business now cause I'd rather work for myself than for some other guy
You haven't wasted one bit of life at all. You're 35? That's it? Please. If you say the same thing in your 50s and 60s, then THAT is a wasted life. You recognize things now. So it's up to you as well to do something about it. New education. Pursue hobbies. Find ways to do what you love. Believe me, my job is no great shakes. But it pays the bills and allows me financially to do what I want on my time off. Even at work during breaks, I'm exploring something to break the monotony. Stretching the brain.
@@s4nder86 Everyone works for themselves - that is to say, everyone who works does so with some aim of benefitting themselves and their dependents. For so many of us, daily work has become so radically alienated from anything that we actually care about, that the only way to keep people doing the things they do is to appeal to their individual need - that is, "You must contribute in the way we want in order to survive." Even when the lion's share of the wealth any worker produces goes to the owner of the capital and not to the worker, the worker is in the end motivated by selfish reasons of self-preservation, because that is the only thing that could ever compel us to spend every day doing things we hate or even just feel zero love or appreciation for.
if i need to use the bathroom before i leave the house, i wait until i'm at work so i can get paid to do it, lol. that and i watch a lot of youtube on the company phone in my company van. can't finish a job early or ya don't get paid ya know, no incentive to work faster so why would i, lol.
I always thought there was something wrong with me because I would get so bored at work to the point of fighting off sleep. But as soon as I would leave work, I would feel energized.
Yeah I also would feel soulless and horrid in my work cubicle, and no wonder. People need to be engaged, I wasn't even allowed to go for a walk to think through my next software dev problem without it counting against my paycheck. So you just sit there like a zombie instead. Totally pointless. After, I found a work from home job and that was much better. If you're not monitored strictly, and you're a good worker, you can remain engaged and take breaks when needed and get your work done your way and it feels so much more fulfilling.
Same. But may be some of us are also night owls whose system works best during evenings. Now it coincides with end of office hours and hence, we are possibly linking that energy boost with leaving office. May be its just our circadian rhythm playing out.
This goes for citizen as well. As soon as you are a cite en you are merely a human resources within an economic zone. The governments is just more management of this zone sold and gives benefits to certain parties thst lobby them. There is no heritage, cukture, community, no happiness and love, no peace. You have no right to land to making your own way. You arent even a part of it. You are literally just like a nail thst is used in one place or another. Then discarded. You are only maintained insofar as you are a utility. No need to cure you. Mans life, modern morality, especially liberal morality, revolves around this concept of consumerism, efficie cy, and utility. If it is of no economic utility, it reduce the capacity to consume it is evil or not worth doing. What is ironic is that the things most worth doing kn life are of no economic utility. That itself exposes the far e we live in. When life always hangs outside of the conomy. For a future and system made for people, defined by what is good for them, rsther than the economy.
The fact of the matter is that human beings need some kind of suffering, and a job is an easy way to sate that necessity. We quite literally can't enjoy sunny days without a few rainy ones -- something to think about. The ultrarich are demonic/soulless, btw.
I work as a nurse, and although I sometimes think that I put myself into a shitty job, I am now grateful that I can say I have never felt bored even for a single day in my work. 😁
The only thing shitty about working in a hospital as a nurse is the pure garbage pay for what you need to do. But I’ll rather do that then work a 9 - 5 for the rest of my life, know what I mean?
Thanks. I believe talking about these matters going to change the world. My experience with boredom and being uncontent is slightly different though. I just shared on my channel how I cope with boredom
Yep... its called de-skilling. As long as it continues, skilled members of staff will disengage from their day to day work & look forward to achieving their personal goals elsewhere - in their personal lives, hobies, sports & past times. Work has become a ballache, a means & an end to pay bills & facilitate those hobbies. Long live the weekend.
Unfortunately all the working class are is a number, a pleb or a dogs body that is poorly paid to prop our employers up so they can suckle and get fat while we struggle to put a roof over our heads and food in our bellies
Sooo true - I spent the last 12 years of my working "career" living from weekend to weekend, not just unengaged from the job, but actively disengaged. I just stopped trying, settled for C's in my evaluations, & counted down the months to retirement. Life has never been so good since getting the hell out of there.
every minute i'm here is a minute i want to leave, but having a secure and decently paying job at the age of 26 is a hard drug to beat. i always swore i was never going to be like the generation before mine, where the only thing i look forward to is the weekend and vacation time, but here i am. it kind of feels like my /self/ is being eroded somehow.
If you have a well paying job, try cutting back on your expenses and save (and invest) as much as possible. After a while you’ll have enough money that you feel save switching jobs (even if you were to be without job for a few months).
I left my very boring job at 26, a few months ago after three years. Was never going to move up in my role and could have stayed there many more years if I wanted. But I had to rescue myself. Money can be what keeps you there, but at the end of the day, if you feel lifeless, its not a good enough reason. Had to get out of there.
I once got fired for having an earbud in my ear listening to podcasts and music on the job. I was working back to back 12 hour shifts, hated the repetitive rinse and repeat of packaging and running around up and down stairs, paper cuts, dirt under the finger nails, meeting rates...I was exhausted all the time. At some point, the (not well maintained) bathroom became my refuge. And that says a lot. The job made was making me depressed all over again. I thought, am I going to be doing this the rest of my life... I'd much rather die. So when I was terminated, I didn't even fight.
Wait they fired you bc u missed something important while u were listening to music or ur boss was like ur not a team player blabla im not a fan of earbuds ur fired
@@lora4624 Well, believe me, but I read it that she was not doing anything wrong, but the boss just did not like that she had something to take the worst sting of the boredom away. I think that it is just normal how toxic bosses work.
Just started working for a company refurbishing railroad axles and the pay is good but deathly dull and the boss told me anyone caught with phones on the floor are fired on the spot.After 2 days I started wearing an earpiece to listen to podcasts and audiobooks.Still the job sucks so bad I'm not going back life is to short to work doing something you hate.
This is why I listen to podcasts for literally my entire shift, quenching my thirst for both knowledge and entertainment. I feel very grateful in that sense.
This was really interesting and new to me. No wonder why curiousity is the only emotion that has the abilty to increase your focus on anything. You don't get distracted when you are curious.
@@mannyechaluce3814 and that’s exactly why we can’t make any progress with reforming our labor force. If the Mexicans and Chinese would apply the same merit back home their countries would be better places to live
@@themodernmonk9 let me give you a contradictory example when you were 16 years old and your father was kicking you out of the house because he couldn't stand the way you were being at home and even if you were being good he already wanted freedom for himself imagine you trying to fix that home it's impossible that's why many people around the world come to the United States there is plenty of opportunity for growth here and people in the United States are always seeking ways to better themselves and the country and that's why they come to the United States with all their vision and their dreams and their inspirations they're ambitions and they make this country a better place not only for themselves but for all of us as well many partners that are now living in the United States have better this country so much Nikolai Tesla is one of those
@@joesanders4038 only people from poor countries are trying to come to the US now. Why would I give up 6 weeks holiday, sick pay, maternity /paternity pay, free healthcare and many other employment laws and protections to go help some American get richer. I read an article from an American the other day saying he'd rather be unemployed in France then work a 100k job in America
It amazes me to see how many of us (especially individuals between the ages of 22-26) are going through the same thing. Disliking / hating the mundanity of such repetitive and unfulfilling work - I trust we all find the thing that makes us spark
Harder to make moves when you’ve got family, Kid, Mortgage and commitments. Make the move when you’re free of responsibility, don’t let managers or others dictate what’s best for you, do what you want to without any barriers
@@CEO786 And so I tried damned hard to not have those commitments. Kids? Never. Relationship? Well maybe if I knew how. Car? Bought used from a friend, no payments. Mortgage? Rent a room in a house, I'm not even on the lease. And you know what? It's still damned hard to change anything. Be it through creating a utopia where people can actually be free, or annihilating humanity, I hope AI tears it all apart.
@@SimuLord Sadly there isn't enough exchange between older and younger generations, or even between people within the same generation, so how would anyone know. I'd say the onus is on the older generations though, they have the experience of both sides, if anyone knew better it should be them. But it seems they do not, it seems they forgot.
I just can't give my all to something that my heart isn't in, no matter how good the pay is. Three and a half years ago I got myself into a position where I now only work two 12 hour shifts a week in an industry that pays very well. My heart still isn't in it but it's only two days of very easy work which makes it so much more bearable. I was told I was mad for giving up full-time work because the money was so good but I was miserable and depressed. Now I have five days a week to dedicate to the things in life that matter. I've always felt that spending all your days doing things that don't stimulate you mentally, physically and spiritually is a total waste of life. Here's to all of us who had the balls to say "Fuck it, I'm out".
@@jamesleon4883 If I was lying I could have just replied and made something up. Not that I have to go into my details to prove anything to anyone, but I work in medical device manufacturing which pays well, and one of the work patterns on offer is two 12 hour shifts at the weekend with two night shifts every other weekend. We get a shift rate percentage on top of our pay. Because I chose not to get married or have kids, I don't need to work full time as the pay is sufficient to support me and have some extra left over. It's all about balancing how much of your time you want to sacrifice, for however much money you will be happy with.
One of the reasons I love my job is that although it keeps me very physically busy and I sweat up a storm daily, there is no real mental demand at all. Frees my mind up to think about anything and everything all day long. My entire work day is like a vacation in my own mind. Never gets boring.
I quit an engineering job to go work as a cook and absolutely loved it. It was hot, busy, difficult, social, and I felt more purpose in making a stranger a salad than I did writing code for the military. If jobs like that paid more, I would 100% do them over engineering, but the pay was atrocious. I can't believe something as slow-paced and easy as my previous job could be worth so much more an hour than the tornado of hard work and drama in a restaurant.
@@notgate2624 I think it comes down to how many people have the skills and knowledge to do each kind of labour, and the different potential market values of the products of that labour.
I am quitting my draining job in two weeks. All the time I was blaming myself for feeling bored and not being able to stay focused, feeling bad and guilty. But now I see it clearly and I know it’s never 100% my fault for feeling that way. There is one toxic belief I realised why I stay in this job for so long “if this place doesn’t want me nowhere else will”. Leaving this job not knowing what to do next is scary as hell,so I choose to focus more on believing in myself that I can breathe life back into me.
@@grantcanty7294 Hello! I am doing okay after purposely putting myself in rock bottom to learn things I need to learn. I won’t have the perfect advice for you because our situations are quite different, I will put down what I have learnt so you can prepare yourself: -saving money before quitting is important, if you decide to jump, also learn how to swim when things get hard. -planning before quitting is important, plan as much as you can while you are still working there. -the thoughts and the fears came up for me during the time I had no job were so much worse than the situation itself so I learn a lot about myself during this time. -a culture of working constantly with no rest is toxic to our whole being on so many levels. -doing the right thing feels like doing the wrong things because I decide against how my family and society expects of me. -during the time of not having a lot of money with me, I learnt to manage my finance, observing my spending habit to stop buying things I don’t need. Less is more. -there are skills I learnt during the time of not working is actually more important for my future: being aware of thoughts and fears, emotion regulation, self care, being there for myself no matter what, what is truly important for me, resting, allowing and surrendering. Hope this helps! I believe everyone has the right and ability to leave what doesn’t work anymore and build a life best suited for them! Wishing you the best of luck!
@@grantcanty7294 Thank you so much for being here with me. I truly appreciate you. I haven’t got a new job as all the time without a job I did serious life reflection and what I am happy with is how my intention has changed: it is less about finding a job and more about building a life that is more suitable for me, and the job is a byproduct of that. I am now only interested in working for myself so I only work for short projects. A lot less money and more uncertainty but I am sure something great will come out of this.
I relate to this so much. I went to college for basically 10 years and was incredibly passionate about what I was working toward. I would learn on my own about the subject with no immediate gain on my part. When I entered the workforce, my passion got squashed almost immediately by the "stay in your lane" mentality. Innovation and new ideas are actively quelled for the sake of making the organization continue to run in the same way, when in reality the organization and the entire field is in need of massive overhaul. It's more than disheartening, I worry for the future of humanity if we continue in this direction.
Humans are like computers, growing up, the Schools and colleges and figurehead code us never have original ideas, to just always do and work and keep doing. Humans are seriously being conditioned to be mindless working slaves to their employers, and then told to be happy about it and that's what's life is all about.
I have felt exactly the same. I started photography some years ago as a sidejob which wasn't very profitable in the beginning. I had to do lots of boring jobs before I could finally sustain myself with my job of passion.
Living frugally and never having one's identity tied to a job or career is the only way I've been able to maintain a modicum of sanity selling my labor (the weed really helps too).
I never once looked at a job posting and thought how awesome it was. Every job looks boring to me. And that's fine. What I can't stand is ingratitude. I had a job once as a high school teacher and I couldn't stand it. No one is more ungrateful than a teenager because most of them (at least where I was) aren't knowledgeable enough about the world to appreciate anything yet, and I found out I wasn't patient enough to help teach them that lesson. Now I work for a small business with an EXTREMELY grateful employer who may not always go with my feelings but ALWAYS takes them into consideration. I have been with that employer 15 years and no telling how much longer I will stay there. Because it's VERY good to be appreciated, even if the work involved gets dull from time to time.
Yes being appreciated makes a world of difference. That's the kind of team spirit you want. When your boss actually cares. One thing I crave is autonomy.. I can't stand being micro managed. Just let me do my thing and it will turn out great.. annoy me and my work suffers.
I sorta feel you on that one. All my life and throughout school the question of what field of work I would go in kept popping up, and I've come to realise that what I do for work isn't actually as important as the environment around that and the people I work with.
Obviously children dont like being in school. They're forced to be there with no means of legal recourse until they're 18. You wouldn't be very motivated either if you were locked in a cage for 12 years and forced to do mundane tasks
@@napoleon2564 I was a child. I remember what school was like. But I didn't respond to it quite as negatively as some other kids did. I never thought being in school was unfair, just like I don't think having to go to work is unfair. If I never use any resources like food and clothing, THEN going to work is unfair. But I use that stuff, so I need to trade something for it. That's why I go to work.
I quit a soul-sucking job in the middle of the pandemic. Scariest thing ever, but best thing I ever did. I was bored out of my mind every single day, the boss was mental and I got so ill out of stress, it was just too much. I took a new job in another town, something very different. It feels great to learn new things, not sure how it will go down in the long term, but right now my life is better.
Same here as far as timing. Beyond tired of the office politics too. I might be broke but I'm doing what I love now. Just as important is never allowing myself to be a weasel like those people back there. Imagine lying and undermining a person without a care in the world. Good riddance.
After about 4 or 5 months on the job, my anxiety kicks into overdrive and I develop severe physical reactions towards having to go to work in the morning. I need to be on disability. The stress of needing to make money to survive, by doing boring unfulfilling bullshit is ridiculous.
Are you spectrum or HSP? A lot of us who are one or the other of those experience the same phenomenon. The best way I've found around it is project work. By the time you're getting antsy, it's often time to move on to the next project anyway.
This reminds me of a long held belief of mine. That the common human experience of time seeming to pass by more quickly as we age, is directly tied to an increase in the tedium that the average worker experiences as their tenure grows. When one spends 5 days a week with the goal of reaching the two days leftover, rather than fully experiencing all 7 days, it is impossible to be present enough for those two days to make up for the lack of presence in the work week. Put simply, we get so good at burning the time we are conditioned to believe is not our own, we eventually aren't able to slow that clock on the time we've been allowed for ourselves. Unfortunately, by the time many of us realize this way of living is actually stealing from ourselves, there is little that can be done to recover the losses.
This happens also to people who haven't been working much. I speak from experience. I haven't been able to work basically at all in my life because health issues and time seems to move faster tge older I get.
"it is impossible to be present enough for those two days to make up for the lack of presence in the work week." Presence has nothing to do with jobs. Presence is intention and practice. External cirumstances are not relevant.
It’s nice when you have a job where you can just dissociate and have it not really negatively impact your work. Then when you get home it doesn’t even feel like you ever went to work in the first place, and you have more energy to do stuff you actually like doing.
My last few jobs (and covid) were like this. I accomplished SO MUCH in life over that period because I had the head space. Nothing worse than a boring, repetitive job where you’re obligated to be fully engaged the *entire* time you’re there. blech
For most of the jobs I’ve had, I just mentally check out the moment I enter the door. I have no idea how other people can endure 15+ years of waiting tables and washing dishes without going insane. It’s a skill I wish I had, but I currently don’t.
Preston Owens at least waiting has some people interaction. Imagine doing a repetitive task hotel don't care about on a screen the whole day. It kills you.
This makes me think about the time I came up with a way to display more product and increase sales of it, but even after proving that it worked, the district manager told everyone in the store to stop doing that and, like a typical mid level authority figure, never provided a reason.
I figured out a way to insert elements into a CAD file based on point descriptions. What this meant is that instead of manually panning through literally thousands of survey points and placing each individual element by itself, I could all but instantly put them in all at once. This meant taking something that would normally take a couple of days and turning it into something that took an hour. Because of exactly the type of thing you're talking about here, I choose not to tell my supervisor. I'm sure he would have told me not to do it that way and came up with some bs reason for it, if anything. Now I get reprimanded for working too quickly (After I was criticized my first week for taking too long.) So I have to constantly try to make 2 hours of work last the whole day.
The manager knows that if his group is too efficient, someone will be fired and the budget reduced. Companies are slow, but they eventually adapt by paring away excess workers until the remainder are back to working frantically to keep up.
I’ve always enjoyed being a delivery man/driver for small business family owned restaurants. While going to college. I actually have some input and am part of the family. Love the shoutout to delivery people.
I currently work as a mailman and feel super engaged at work for some reason, I always feel like I'm challenging myself to finish faster than last time, and if there's a huge amount of mail, I challenge myself to just even finish in the first place. Also working in a city and area I've never been too makes it cool to feel that progression of understanding the area more and more every time I'm assigned a new route. Did a little over 50h last week and felt pretty great at the end of it, week went super fast (and I have to wake up at 5am every day too(!!))
@@kiiturii yes that's until you get promoted and set your high standards on newcomers, and the next headline would be "company x forces people to pee in bottles"
This video pushed me to step out of my comfort zone with networking. I've been working at a company for 4 years in the design field, and have felt my creative process become stifled over the past couple of years. I've been haphazardly sending my resume to new job opportunities, but my stress and anxiety trying to figure out what I want in my life has kept me from moving away from the security provided by my current job. That ends today because this video made me realize how unhappy I really am "staying in my lane."
"They're not engaged ..." ... and they're not paid. My boss, back when I was in I.T., gave me a metrically-measured project to write a manual on everything I did as an analyst/developer/programmer. It seemed ludicruous to me ... because my job was fundamentally, while systematic and logical, an art form to me. It also took away from my time constantly pleasing my internal customers with projects that directly impacted the way their job functions were able to become more efficient. I had about six months to do the task, and although I put a lot of effort into it, the scope I planned out became bigger as I fleshed it out. The one thing that de-motivated me the entire time was that my boss was obsessed with replacing people with automatic systems or 'jack-of-all-trades' slave I.T. technicians, which was really not my raison d'etre - I was a craftsman, and a damn good one. So I finished about a third of the manual, and my boss used that as justification to fire me, while also telling me in the exit interview that I always did quality work (in my actual projects)!
Curiosity is THE most underrated and undervalued human feature ever. I still wouldn't necessarily demonize the systems we created to boost productivity, but it is crystal clear to me that we need to address our lack of curiosity in life for our own good and, consequently, for everyone else.
When you are able to give a meaning to What you are doing you can cope with the situation. The more meaning you get from the job the more motivated you become.
I remember having so much curiosity and wanderlust for the world and I still want to see so many places, but to get to that point to where I can travel the world and explore my mind and as much as possible in the world, I have to endure staring at the floor for 12 to 14 hours a day laying tarmac, it's completely soul destroying. Being in a place where you don't want to be and doing something you utterly hate is the way to kill your human spirit and passion. I can't wait to end this mind numbing process and explore like I'm meant to do.
@@andyd6338 at the minute I don't find it as waiting, I know what I want to do, it's just trying to buy my freedom otherwise it will get to a point and put me back 2 steps.
I work in a grocery store in Canada and make just over $20 an hour. I enjoy my job, but my job doesn’t make me who I am. I have so many interests outside of work that I don’t get stressed out at work. I spend lots of time with my wife and son, but also have my private time. My job creates money to pay for things and my personal interests/family creates my happiness.
Well - I'm bored shitless most of the time at work, but there is nothing I can do about it. I'm too efficient at doing the job, so I end up with 95% down time.
That is part of the problem. Most people is too efficient for their job but still the number of work hours have not been reduced. Lots of people could do their job in five or six hours and call it it a day, however they are stuck 8 hours or more at work. The 60's science fiction promise of more leisure time in The Future (and better wages) was never realized , because a combination of corporate greed and calvinist work ethic. I think a lot of social problems derive from the lack of balance between work and personal life ( stress, heart diseases, alcohol and drug abuse, insomnia, etc)
You and others are a casualty of an outdated system. The problem is that you are getting paid by the hour, not by your results. You have to figure out a way to stop selling your time.
You could see if you can help others with their workload. Although make sure with your boss and fellow co workers. You might learn something new and possibly be promoted/raise.
Happiest I ever was, was when I grew and sold cannabis directly to customers. I like my job now fixing people cars in a small shop with 2 other guys. Nothing beats being your own boss though.
Will E. Calling cannabis a drug sounds almost as stupid as saying someone who stole candy is a murderer. Medical marijuana has bin legal in California for years dumbass. People like you that call cannabis a drug or people who sell it a drug dealers are some of the most ignorant people on the planet. Keep being a puppet dumbass.
I started work as an events technician for a local sound and lighting business where i live, and it was singlehandedly the best decision i made for my career. I run backline and lighting for concerts, audio for conferences and such, i meet almost every client and help plan events... Best of all, it’s almost never repetitive. In my experience, working for huge companies with thousands of employees has always been very much an exercise in drudgery.
Dude, that's a job that's actually closer to his cobbler comparison. You're getting to help people 1-on-1 on a daily basis and have an impact on their lives in a time of need. If you don't like your job, start looking for a new one, because no one wants to be sick in a hospital and have a nurse that doesn't give a shit.
@Borp Its possible that he says he's disengaged from his job not because of the nature of duties, but because of working conditions. Or the attitudes of coworkers. I've heard stories from my teacher whose wife is a nurse, and while she loves people and loves assisting others, shes surrounded by nasty coworkers and constantly picking up after them. So that's possibly what he meant.
@Nick Walker That's fair if that's the case, but he said ''career" not "place of work". No one should stay in a toxic work environment for "decent" pay, there are good people elsewhere that will appreciate you.
Im 18, i used to work in a retail job, where the majority of my coworkers were out of uni and had decent degrees. They still ended up in a full time (5-6 days a week) mind numbing retail job. My coworkers were pretty chill but i couldnt bear the small 6 hours of work i had to do on a saturday. Ive quit now because of my exams, and if my plans go well hopefully i wont have to work in a place like that, or work for someone else ever again. I do not want my life to be waiting for the weekend, and im going to work my ass off to prevent it from happening. So lets see what happens! I hope i remember this comment i made and i can come back in 10 years to reply to it lol.
I work for a fairly large organization. When I started, I was all excited to both do my job and to contribute to the organization. I was soon disabused any notion that anyone at my work had any appreciation of either what I do or the ideas that I had to contribute. I found that when I offered ideas, even when I was the only one in the room who had thought about a particular aspect of my job and/or my organization, and several times even when my PhD related directly to the topic at hand, my ideas were dismissed out of hand and I was chastised for even thinking that I had a place to offer anything to the organization The so-called problem? I have job title x and only those with job title q are to give ideas to the organization, NEVER job title x or anything other than q. Of course, I know of at least two occasions when a q person dismissed my ideas then later submitted and took credit for them as his own (and yes, I do think gender dynamics also plays a role here). I have never been someone who thinks that they are always right, nor do I think that all of my ideas are the best or even necessarily what the company needs; sometimes people in other areas of the organization know information that I do not and so have different ideas of what will work and what will not. However, it is very frustrating to be dismissed out of hand without anyone even hearing my ideas just because of an arbitrary possession of x title instead of q, especially at times when I am uniquely qualified to understand a particular aspect of my job or the organization. When my new supervisor transferred in from another department she had the 'get to know you' interviews with us. She commented to me that she noticed I often have good ideas. I explained to her that yes I do, but that I would never again offer any to this organization. From now on, I am taking the time and energy that I would have spent on generating and trying to gain acceptance for my ideas at work and pouring it all instead into my own projects and into finding a job at an organization that appreciates what I do. My supervisor was saddened by that but had to admit she could see my point of view. In the meantime, I have completely disengaged emotionally and psychologically from my job - I still give good work but nothing more than my exact job description. I really have also taken all of that ideas energy and poured it into my own projects and into finding a job at an organization that appreciates what I do. One of the key features I had already listed for the new type of organization is to look for one that is new, small, and growing so quickly that they appreciate constructive input from everyone without boxing people into narrow job titles that limit their talents and creativity.
Sidenote: today's technology could allow us to work significantly less, if only the world wasn't driven by profit and there was a universal basic income of sorts. Doing a job for 4 hours feels VERY different to doing it for 8-10 per day. It could mean better productivity and better well-being.
Technology takes obsolete jobs, but create new ones. We automated our light system on the streets, would you prefer candles to keep the candle lighters jobs?
@@youngatnaruto Someone will have to program these robots, and someone will need to do repairs and etc. Progress, convenience, and a better life for all only came through change, development, and adaptation. Automation has been going on for more than a century in countless professions, all for the better.
Sometimes I hate having so much insight and developing further. It really makes me question the system and myself more and more..and opens my eyes even more with every time. I know it's time for a change but sometimes you just can't immediately quit a job etc. because there are many other factors/circumstances which are intercepting/hindering you temporarily. You really have to THINK rationally about your next step which might completely change your future. (for the good or the bad)
I started a 4 year apprenticeship when I was 15 that consisted almost entirely of punching holes in steel plates. I’m 53 and really good at it now… I love punching holes in steel plates! It completes me… 😱😱😱
Wow amazing video! I have just handed my notice to my employer, mid size company (under 10,000 people). What you have described rings so true! I will be starting my new job in a small start-up and can't wait to be challenged and be rewarded for thinking outside the box and having real input, instead of just being "employee number xxxxx, doing yyyy, easily replaceable".
“In the progress of the division of labour…The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.” ...ADAM SMITH, THE WEALTH OF NATIONS.
That is an amazing quote! It's what I've been trying to explain to people ever since I started working with my hands - there is so much satisfaction and fulfillment in figuring out how to do things and getting things done!
There was a PBS show some years back, "Frontier House", where several families were challenged to live like 1870's homesteaders. The men all ended up agreeing that the lifestyle (handling their own problems and actually seeing how their work benefited their families) was much more satisfying than their real jobs. The children also adjusted well to being useful, rather than students/pests. The women, however, HATED the frontier lifestyle from start to finish, because their work (cook, dishes, laundry, cook, dishes, laundry) was MORE drone-like than their real jobs.
@@slappy8941 well in fact your sentence does not make any sense. If you interest yourself in the Marxist conception of the philosophical meaning of work for human beings, it has a drastically different meaning than the classical and neoclassical one.
This makes me grateful for my job. I certainly suffer from boredom and malaise sometimes, but I have the privilege of being regularly challenged and required to seek out new information in my line of work.
3:14 - removing the meaning from the work, removing curiosity from the job. totally agree... repetitive and tedious tasks with no overview is depressing.
One thing that would help loads with my job would be able to listen to music or a audio book or something. Instead, we run the risk of getting in trouble for doing that. Just feels like management wants work to be a punishment sometimes.
Turned out I wasn't getting enough omega 3, vit D and exercise. Now I'm more engaged in work despite it not being a huge challenge. I am taking on new challenges.
@@64jcl Not trying to be a total downer, but it gets so hard to keep a good exercise routine going on when you gotta wake up at 6am and you get home at 7pm feeling exhausted. Only looking forward to weekends so you can get some good rest is a bleak reality.
@@misanthropus0 try to move closer to your job so you can free time to do other things. Even if it means paying a little more rent. Time is the most precious resource we have, dont waste it in the commuting
I don't know g, I'm out of the house 14hours at a time and I can still fit in a weight routine and 45min cardio on my work days. Stop cutting yourself down and fishing for pity because of it. Thats how you waste your time.
I’ve spent about 10 years recovering from the trauma of school, which was a work prison that I still have nightmares about. After years of work to get myself in the right position, I came up with a big idea that means I can now play in my mind whenever and wherever I am. It’s permanent freedom from mental drudgery. I can’t remember the last time I was bored.
LKJ, I learned to amuse myself by playing the game “that’s like” to make mental connections between things and then started doing it all the time, while reading, learning, observing, even in small talk when trying to figure out what someone’s incomprehensible job title meant. That was about it, connecting things by playing in metaphor, then BOOM the mother of all metaphors hit me
@@EmperorsNewWardrobe Alright. So this game of making mental connections between things really that interesting that it takes away the monotonous things in life? Alright I'll try it.
@@thoughtaddict2739 it led to a huge portfolio of creative ideas for me (and continues to), so if you have creative pursuits or aims, it may well be a useful exercise. There’s no guarantee of course, but I’d love to know how you get on in, say, a few months from now
Hey, I am interesting in this Idea, but I can’t quite catch the example, to fully understand it. Can you provide another example o expand on this technique?
Here because I'm perpetually bored in my job (been in it not even 3 months) and going out of my mind. Dan puts it very well indeed. When I worked for a smaller company I really felt the impact I was having and could have (that bit stressed me out, however). The subject matter also really helped too, as I was personally interested. Since then (I left as it was too stressful and underpaid), I've been at bigger organisations and it's the polar opposite. Can't "tread on anyone's toes" by doing things outside of your remit or because I have experience that could help. People's egos are so easily damaged. As Dan says, "Stay in your lane". There's got to be a better way to earn money than this...
This is where AI and automation could actually become a boon to work culture and society as a whole. These advancements could take the boring, dreadful work away from us and allow us to pursue rich, meaningful work instead, so that we might once again find a way to discover purpose in our endeavors and engage with one another as human beings, all while enjoying the economic benefits of mass production.
That's always a possibility too, if we're not careful. That's why the fight to preserve equality and the social safety net today is so critical, so we aren't setting the stage for the rich and powerful to use automation and AI as a weapon to screw the rest of us over and leave us with nothing in the future. Personally I think that if we allow permanent private ownership of AI tech, it will inevitably lead to monopolization and the effect will be exactly as you describe. We're certainly on course for such a future as it stands right now. A couple ideas could be to set AI patents to expire after a set amount of time and enter the public domain (maybe a few years, given the assumed pace of technological advancement in the field). This would ensure that no permanent monopoly could exist, though it does carry the risk of a single private entity enjoying a permanent lead over everyone else. But this could be an option that those on the political/economic moderate-to-right could swallow. Another solution could be to simply turn AI over to the public domain. Use it as a sort of infrastructure that any private entity could tap into should they so choose, without significant barriers to use. This would eliminate the risk of a single private enterprise wielding absolute control of AI development and application, but would run the risk of stifling private innovation. On the other hand, we should probably assume that AI will ultimately be capable of developing itself at a pace that far outstrips any human efforts, so it's possible that the factor of private innovation will become a moot point. Or we could rely on regulations to determine limits on how AI is allowed to be used. But this might turn into an ad hoc endeavor, with regulators perpetually playing catch-up in a rapidly-advancing field, unsure of how best to react to the latest developments. Plus you would require a government with an appetite to enforce these regulations. Point is, we have no idea how we're going to actually use AI today, nor do we know the ultimate outcome. But we'd better start thinking and strategizing now, because if we get this right, it could be quite beneficial to all of us. No matter how you slice it, we really are on the cusp of an economic and technological revolution, whether we want to be or not.
@@TheAxlin monopolies are unsustainable as they all eventually fall. Meaning eventually even if companies used AI against us the company will eventually stop working properly and AI would probably not care about the company once the AI is taken by the people since AI only has artificial intelligence not artificial emotions. So either way we will change the system. It is inevitable.
What is this rich, meaningful work futurists like to talk about? If robots are.doing all the useful stuff (food production, electricity, surgery, etc), no human work is "meaningful". Do you mean we'll all mess with hobbies all day, and that just doesn't sound pretentious enough? Don't say we'll all volunteer at soup kitchens, because robots can make soup just fine. Humans will lie on the beach, then fight over the best spots once beach-lying becomes the new normal and our instinct for finding ways to be unsatisfied kicks in. I tend to think Judge Dredd had the gist of it -- we'll all end up stealing and fighting simply because we'll be so incredibly bored with NOT having to be busy.
Even though I have told bosses for years that I would be far more productive working from home, they never allow it. They always want to see their employees' faces. After decades of corporate life, it has become clear to me that companies are equally as disinterested in achieving peak productivity as they are in taking risks. You are just an easily replaceable cog in a wheel.
I got fired from a job that i HATED where i worked for and with people that i DESPISED, it was 10 hrs a day 6 and 7 days a week, getting fired from there is THE BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED, now i work 14 days a month with great people and i make 4 times the money that i used to
bob marley I'm with you on that one. Met a nomadic type guy as i was walking along a river. Most humble and genuine guy I've ever met. Sat and spoke with him for hours. We didn't even know each others names till just before we parted ways. A true inspiration to how life should be lived (in my opinion).
I'm a computer programmer. I HAVE to be creative and live into my work. BUT we have more than 50.000 employees - so ... Don't be at trouble maker. Shut up and keep doing stupid things in insane ways. Nobody cares if you waste weeks as long as you follow the rules. I have justed sat a whole day doing absolutely nothing because someone changed my group assignment (that is locked me out of the servers), told no-one and went on vacation. I'm not allowed to talk to someone who might fix things, I must follow the red tape (call the delay office so that they may call the guy who gets things done). I still "make trouble". I'm still young and naive. Even frozen mammoths DO change over time. But I miss the old days in a 21 person company (with the boss an expert in DEBUG and EDLIN). In my opinion boredom is one of the spurs of creativity. But I feel really lonely.
Russel Brand once said something that captured the way many feel about work life, "The person who once made bikes and watched a happy customer ride away on it, now works in a factory that makes the pedals". I've probably reworded that to a degree. Dan Cable has just summarised why I always longed to work for a smaller or start-up company. You're job role is to do what you can to help the business function and grow, so your ideas are welcomed; rather than one boring repetitive task always only. Otherwise I feel like a tiny cog in a giant machine I don't have any passion for.
Yep, confirming all this basing on my first person experience working in california in tech corporation as software engineer. Meaning crisis is hell of a stress. Opening my work macbook triggered tears almost every day for the last few weeks of my employment there. I'm free now.
This is an interesting observation & one that i think explains the start-up mania right now. Ppl are just bored & need novelty. This happened to me. I retired early & just finished a BS in EE. Travelling the world for a year now while learning more about AI, machine learning, etc. Loving it!
This is many years later, but I currently started my solo lawn care endeavor. I’m 20 years old right now, but I understand this all too well. My goal with my business is to grow my knowledge with equipment and different aspects of landscaping as a whole to be able to hire the least amount of people possible and to teach them under my wing to be able to then do more in my business from a job standpoint.
This is just another example of neoliberal "thinkers" explaining what Marx already said 100s of years ago. But because it's not a Marxist analysis it's accepted by the mainstream.
A thing that*'s similar to this phenom is the "Boreout syndrom". It's not just about repitive tasks, but tasks that bore you out to a degree when you stop doing them, no matter the consequences. But as I mentioned, it's not about repeating the same thing over and over. It's being bored at all with what you do, because it's too easy for your mental capacity. I suffered from this syndrom thrice in the past (twice during highschool, once while at a job), and am suffereing from it again right now doing my hobbies I held dear for more than 20 years. I know, time to level up to more complicated hobbies now, but it's kind of hard to let go.
I work as a low wage migrant worker in Japan (coming from a third world country). Food-related company. The work itself isn't that difficult, but it's the most boring thing I've ever experienced in my life. Hours and hours 5 days a week doing the exact same repetitive task. And this isn't for just us migrant workers. Everyone, including the Japanese employees, are bored out of our minds 10 - 16 hours per day, 5 days a week. I don't know how some of them have been working here for so many years, but this boredom is torture to me. Life outside of work is great because Japan is extremely safe and convenient. In my home country, I earned considerably less money, but I really liked my job. It mainly involved driving (not in the city much, but mostly in the countryside and highways, which was awesome). I'll stay here in Japan for a while but I will not miss this job even if my home country is extremely dangerous and I earn around 4x - 5x less than I do here. I'd rather risk doing that than almost falling asleep out of boredom every single day.
Yeah, I'm not from a dangerous country (well compared to Japan it is) but rn i have a really safe job that bores me to tears. Im going back to driving uber even tho theres a paycut and its definitely more dangerous than the deskjob im at rn but i don't care. Being bored for most of your life isnt okay. Ive had much harder and more dangerous jobs but this is one of the few jobs I actually dread going to. Literally 8 hours of wanting to leave.
i find myself doing toxic things after a long day of work to up my dopamine such as binge eat or binge watching tv and i realized its my way to escape my feelings of emptiness that i get from work 🙂..fun stuff
Well I was a career bartender. I knew precisely about not contributing to the world. My job gave me zero pride. I was getting older, and my handiness in my lifelong steelsmithing hobby was getting better, along with interest in what I do.. so I took the plunge. Started a business out of my garage making custom welded signs. Made some products, put out a ton of ads with pictures, and the orders have been rolling in. Quit my bartending job almost a year ago.. I enjoy the hell out of my work and I get MASSIVE pride from customer comments. Every day brings a new order, a new challenge, and a new story. I hope it never falls apart. Oh and the money is WAY better.
Being "bored" in a job today is a luxury. Usually people are tired, hopeless, grossed, burnt, disgusted, scared, anxious, fed up, sick, depressed, nauseous, stressed, among many other adjectives.
I'm currently an electrician in a party of 4 for my state. I work with a narcissist, with an apprentice under him who's very similar. My journeyman was on hard drugs and partied hard, partied often and hates anyone who isn't his boy, including himself... I show up, they degrade the work I enjoy every day. I continuously get monotonous, shit work in the name of apprenticeship but I'm 3 1/2 years in and most Learning opportunities for me come from ignoring their orders and doing what I feel is useful. I'm frustrated, neglected, and living weekend to weekend, check to check. My wife isn't very happy and we can't get out of our hole because I added medical bills to our expenses. We drive broken down, last leg vehicles. I have 0 credit and 80% of income. Wife has great credit, but...my vehicles a series of small fires, encompassinhg a larger fire. I can't do anything there without immediately starting it up, losing all interest, mind wonders and now I can't focus on the work at hand. A good buddy of mine from work left because he was on the sane road I'm on, he'd just been their longer...he has diabetes and the one place to could genuinely help a guy like that, he was drove off from by people he's known his entire life. I start getting angry still just.....I hate cliches, I hate conforming or the "my way or the high way" shit. I was depressed, mentally weak and holding on to the only quality I have ever ascertained in life....making others happy....I let myself get walked on and Abused. I neglected myself and when i meant to send the "im a good dude" vibe, i guess i rolled out the "I'm a nice guy, walk on me" matt and proceeded to let them take an inch.... I lost my patience, let go of ideals and have become so mentally numb with a job that requires a "get it" attitude. Physically is fine certainly but mentally, I don't even get to use it and it's the only good thing about me. I've become so frustrated with the hole I sank myself into that I come to youtube comments where everyone knows everything just to say my piece because mentioning it. People just don't seem to understand that being somewhere where I may use no creativity, no out-of-box thinking....wake up at 5:30 am, arrive home approximately at 530 p.m. mon-thurs weekends if necessary. I've had a very grueling, paranoia inducing 25 years of life....Seemingly normal people seem to be the most untrustworthy to me. As my entire life, these are the people that have affected me the worst. All I want is a happy, healthy life for my family and the people around me....not awake at midnight and further because the only bit of happiness in the well is dried up when I park my truck for the day....I'm stuck and the one thing in life I just didn't want to be was stuck. No matter how I had to go about it.....but here we are. Ranting in a comments Section in place so far down, it'll never get read anyway. I hate what I'm doing 46+hours a week. I just want to live, not to exist. I don't even care about being happy
You bring up some very good points, however the bored at work isn't always related to repetitive or meaningless work. I worked as a machine mechanic and had full autonomy, saw things from start to finish and the projects varied daily and i would interact with customers knowing my work was appreciated. However, it's still what i would consider below my challenge level, as I had no formal training or schooling and self taught the majority of my knowledge. It got to a point that I could accomplish a days work in the last hour and would be bored out of my skull until then and actively hated wasting my mind any longer, I knew every trick to make quick fixes, it takes intelligence to be properly lazy. Any task that is unsuitable for the mind completing it, will eventually become dull and loathed. Sadly most of us have little choice in those matters, and have to find other ways to stimulate our minds in the off time.
This is why I love doing social work at a school. I promise you, you’ll never be bored a day in your life lol. When the weekends hit, I’m excited to see my friends of course but I also can’t wait to go back in to work with my kiddos again.
Wow. This was so well explained and brought so many flashes of my 20s working, and why I ventured out to start my own. The book People Over Profit explains this evolution of work well, too.
I was working in a company and I was very bored. My work was so repetitive I couldn't care much at the end of the day. My performance went downhill as I had no real goal but only do the same thing everyday. I lost my job because of that but then I decided to take a chance instead of getting a new job in another boring company and go full time in photography as it was a passion I had and I can tell I'm a much happier man since then
I work a 5 to 9. I start at 5 am and in all the silence and peace of the early hours I perform on par for my required production. At 9 we have some mind numbing meetings with people who just woke up and after those meetings I'll just choose how to run my day from then on forward (so far the working from home dream during covid times) The sad thing is, my manager expects me to be present during the day for atleast my contract hours. So I made a bot that moves my mouse so I stay 'active' and I connected notification to my phone. Everytime someone needs me I hop behind the computer. The amount of short sight and non-leader skills these managers have is so poor. I hate them, but pity them for it as well.
Excellent. Thank you. I have loved work where I didn't know what to do next week - could be any project, any customer, any domain, any technology. It was crazy, but I got lot of opportunities to learn, and loved it. There was trust that I could take responsibility and that it would be able to get things forward. Such a great time. Lot has changed from this time. Currently I do really struggle when I see that lot of opportunities for learning are not given to me, but someone else, just because I'm "reserved" for some 100% "planned to you by excel" task. I feel that optimizing persons capacity to be used fullest to named know tasks is diminishing learning as there's only one domain where you can learn.
martin 13 i watch videos that will help me gain a skill so i can work at home online.. i work at a retail store that sells home appliances and i STAND ALL DAY waiting for customers.. i get so bored.. anyway i hope i get out this rat race and i hope the same for you too!!
I've had four programming jobs. Only one of them I was passionate about. Very small company, low salary. I could learn so much, make so many meaningful choices, help out with the content writing, voice my opinions on the business, etc. I moved up to a bigger company with greater salary, and it felt less rewarding. Then to an even bigger company, with a big salary and benefits. I couldn't take in after 5 months. Now I'm looking for small startups again.
one more point: if you are assigned a task and being told to do it a certain way, most of the people would get annoyed due to lack of freedom in how that task is to be executed. Enjoyment at work comes when we have command over "how" we want to do that work instead of being forced to adopt a certain strategy which hinders our thought process and brings out thoughts which repel our willpower to do that work.
Ultimately the work done is never fairly rewarded if the company you work for is able to make a profit. There is no magical profit realm so someone has to pay for it. 1. Rip off your suppliers 2. Underpay your employees 3. Overcharge your customers Even if you only screw one of those to turn a profit, you're still screwing the other 2 because you are taking the majority of profit and it's not fairly going to the people doing the actual work. I can't find any enjoyment in this, it's not like i have a mental disability where something as simple as a lunchbox with my favorite cartoon character on it can make me happy for the day.
I feel like if we found a way to scale back to 32 hour work weeks (similar to some other countries) and scaled the pay with it for people, humans would be a lot happier. Essentially 4 days a week 3 day weekends. That's a lot better balance.
In countries with high production output, we could reach 10 hours/week very easily. This means 2 days of 5 hours. This implies a few things: revenue ceiling, removal of bullshit jobs, reform of the banking system, protectionism. To name a few.
Like the Amazon warehouse work? 4 days 10 hours. Or, the new one: night shift 12 hours 3 days, 2.90 to even it out with the 4 day shift? Yeah, I got that. I still feel dead inside. Next suggestion.
It was so stressful for me that it was killing me at my job. Honestly killing me. I walked away 2 years ago and have never been happier. After 23 years, I just couldn't keep doing it. It saved my life. Boredom was an enormous part of it. I got bored after trying to redo things to make them more interesting time after time. It was just too much to see the rejection and being treated so horribly for just doing my job, one I thought I loved. I grew to really hate then get anxiety attacks when I had to leave each day. Then I was getting to where I wanted to hurt myself so I wouldn't have to go. It was really necessary that I quit and I did. It wasn't easy but I just had to. Best thing I ever did.
"The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become." -- Adam Smith, Wealth Of Nations (1776), Book V, Chapter 1, Part III, Article II He follows this with something that would make Anarchic-Capitalists pull their hair out - that is if they actually read it: "But in every improved and civilised society this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body of the people, must necessarily fall, unless government takes some pains to prevent it."
I'm bored with life... But there's nothing to do... America sucks in many ways, that being a huge one. What is the purpose of life, like, really? Cause I know it can't possibly be that you basically just work until your senior years... There is no such thing as fun for me anymore, everything is just stressful, working, hanging out with people, taking care of myself, playing video games, etc.
This really hits home for me, if I am not solving a problem or learning something new, or doing something different it literally drives me crazy, my career path has been extremely diverse often with creative roles, unfortunately, I am at a complete loss as to what to do next...
I'm looking for that 'special' job that I can go to everyday and genuinely enjoy. My current job is mindless, repetitive, non-stimulating and I've completely checked out from it. Worst part, I actually had to get a degree to do it. I dont plan on sticking around however, I'm actively looking for other opportunities.
It does not exist, even if you turn your passion into career, it only becomes another regular repetitive mind numbing work. I'm speaking from experience. I was once so happy being able to earn a living doing what I love, 2 years later not that much. The key is to love what you do whatever it is and pursue excellence, and reward yourself for your excellence so you can feel good.
I've done that LOL. You have to be careful about creating for yourself while on the job though, you could wind up in an intellectual property rights lawsuit if your employer finds out what you're doing and decides that since you were on their dime your creation belongs to them.
I have a disability but now I finally have a job. I consider it a career. If I ever lost my job I would be without healthcare.. That’s why I honor my job and work hard for success. I am not bored . I trust my co-workers and strive for success.
Im a young person, recently graduated from law school, and am actually working on my field, but something just doesn't feel good. My job has allowed me to build a little bit of wealth but, there's something just doesn't fit. So, right now, after thinking about It, im planning to study psychology, I've always had the volunteer for helping other people, and It feels right to think I can contribute to the other people and the world in a different way than just being a lawyer.
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If you have ADHD this is extra struggle...and everyone get bored but people with ADHD have pretty much chronic boredom and that why we tend to be little bit out there and sometimes do some kind crazy stuff... we just want stimulate our brain so it start dishing out some dopamine
He became bored with the accepted shirt color paradigm and I respect that.
Burned into your flesh ....?
Thanks. I believe talking about these matters going to change the world. My experience with boredom and being uncontent is slightly different though. I just shared on my channel how I cope with boredom
Have coffee breaks every hour and you will never get bored at work. 🖖
I like how this video was randomly recommended to me while I was browsing RUclips at work because I was bored.
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Working 5 days to enjoy 2? Sounds like a pretty shitty ratio to me
Most people work 8 hours 6 days a week where I live.
I had a shitty 10 hour 6 days a week job myself not a long ago for the equivalent to 1.70 dollars an hour
Yeah, that's shitty. Sorry, and I've been there. I still don't think it's right.
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you call a payment 5 times bigger just slightly better?
Bobby Dvoid Enjoying 7 days of unemployment and 0 of paid work seems s**tty...
M Infante Well said
"The idea of removing meaning from job and curiosity from job was intentional " this line nailed it
I don't agree with the statement though. I think that in the example of Henry Ford that he used, getting rid of meaning and curiosity were merely byproducts of the pursuit of efficiency. Ford was on the leading edge of modern care of employees actually, paying extremely well, and reducing workers to the 40 hour work week we see as common today, where others in the time were requiring 6 days a week of 12 hours etc.
He seems to imply that the main objective was to get rid of enjoyment at work, where its pretty obviously an unfortunate side-effect of the pursuit of efficiency. If one can have efficiency and maintain meaning and curiosity, I'm sure that would have been preferred.
Just realized I turned 35. That's 12,750 days on this spinning orb. Most of them have been a waste doing nonsense in school or at work. Every day is groundhog day. I've basically forgotten how to feel since work is so painfully mind numbing. 12,000 or so more days and I can retire. What a waste of a life.
I just joined work and I get why I thought adults always to seemed to be sad... I just want to get out and try a business now cause I'd rather work for myself than for some other guy
@@sai-codes As an entrepreneur you work for clients, not yourself.
Get out while you still can!
You haven't wasted one bit of life at all. You're 35? That's it? Please. If you say the same thing in your 50s and 60s, then THAT is a wasted life. You recognize things now. So it's up to you as well to do something about it. New education. Pursue hobbies. Find ways to do what you love. Believe me, my job is no great shakes. But it pays the bills and allows me financially to do what I want on my time off. Even at work during breaks, I'm exploring something to break the monotony. Stretching the brain.
@@s4nder86 Everyone works for themselves - that is to say, everyone who works does so with some aim of benefitting themselves and their dependents. For so many of us, daily work has become so radically alienated from anything that we actually care about, that the only way to keep people doing the things they do is to appeal to their individual need - that is, "You must contribute in the way we want in order to survive." Even when the lion's share of the wealth any worker produces goes to the owner of the capital and not to the worker, the worker is in the end motivated by selfish reasons of self-preservation, because that is the only thing that could ever compel us to spend every day doing things we hate or even just feel zero love or appreciation for.
I take extra long toilet breaks and read scientific journals so I don't feel like killing myself.
I'm laughing, but only because I can relate.
I listen to podcasts all day and daydream.
if i need to use the bathroom before i leave the house, i wait until i'm at work so i can get paid to do it, lol. that and i watch a lot of youtube on the company phone in my company van. can't finish a job early or ya don't get paid ya know, no incentive to work faster so why would i, lol.
Why did this comment make me cry?
Same here Mike... Same here...
I always thought there was something wrong with me because I would get so bored at work to the point of fighting off sleep. But as soon as I would leave work, I would feel energized.
same. I would feel so refreshed even after working 12 hours when leaving work
I’m most mentally active at around 22.30. Same reason. My creative evening hobbies determine my body clock high.
Yeah I also would feel soulless and horrid in my work cubicle, and no wonder. People need to be engaged, I wasn't even allowed to go for a walk to think through my next software dev problem without it counting against my paycheck. So you just sit there like a zombie instead. Totally pointless.
After, I found a work from home job and that was much better. If you're not monitored strictly, and you're a good worker, you can remain engaged and take breaks when needed and get your work done your way and it feels so much more fulfilling.
Same. But may be some of us are also night owls whose system works best during evenings. Now it coincides with end of office hours and hence, we are possibly linking that energy boost with leaving office. May be its just our circadian rhythm playing out.
Who would it thought you don't like to be exploited.
Repetitive tasks like working a 9-5 puts your brain in zombie mode. It feels lifeless.
CaliCoins 28 try being an investment banker haha more like 9-2am smh
That’s what the corporatists want
we're not meant for this.
Heheh. My brain has been in autopilot mode. And idc anymore if i did mistake.
Yea but you guys may realize that its not that bad of a thing for a goverment or the ruling elite.
I love how he dances around the concept that modern employers treat employees like widgets and tools rather than human beings.
This goes for citizen as well. As soon as you are a cite en you are merely a human resources within an economic zone. The governments is just more management of this zone sold and gives benefits to certain parties thst lobby them. There is no heritage, cukture, community, no happiness and love, no peace. You have no right to land to making your own way. You arent even a part of it. You are literally just like a nail thst is used in one place or another. Then discarded. You are only maintained insofar as you are a utility. No need to cure you.
Mans life, modern morality, especially liberal morality, revolves around this concept of consumerism, efficie cy, and utility. If it is of no economic utility, it reduce the capacity to consume it is evil or not worth doing. What is ironic is that the things most worth doing kn life are of no economic utility.
That itself exposes the far e we live in. When life always hangs outside of the conomy. For a future and system made for people, defined by what is good for them, rsther than the economy.
Yeah... like me...
And that most of the jobs in existence _should be done by_ widgets and tools rather human beings
The fact of the matter is that human beings need some kind of suffering, and a job is an easy way to sate that necessity. We quite literally can't enjoy sunny days without a few rainy ones -- something to think about. The ultrarich are demonic/soulless, btw.
Yeah well in their defense when you create such a backwards system, it’s easy to think in such a way. I think that’s what he was trying to get at.
I work as a nurse, and although I sometimes think that I put myself into a shitty job, I am now grateful that I can say I have never felt bored even for a single day in my work. 😁
The only thing shitty about working in a hospital as a nurse is the pure garbage pay for what you need to do. But I’ll rather do that then work a 9 - 5 for the rest of my life, know what I mean?
@@verbon47 rn make over 100 000 k a year easy...56 dollars an hour
Thanks. I believe talking about these matters going to change the world. My experience with boredom and being uncontent is slightly different though. I just shared on my channel how I cope with boredom
@@ConsciousMomprener I could use that advice I’ll check it out
@@verbon47 garbage pay?...all the nurses i know make bank...the pay is not shitty for nurses the hours are
Yep... its called de-skilling. As long as it continues, skilled members of staff will disengage from their day to day work & look forward to achieving their personal goals elsewhere - in their personal lives, hobies, sports & past times. Work has become a ballache, a means & an end to pay bills & facilitate those hobbies. Long live the weekend.
100% agree....
1000% agree with the gentleman who 100% agrees
Cassidy Keen If you do what you love, you don't have to work a day in your life.
Unfortunately all the working class are is a number, a pleb or a dogs body that is poorly paid to prop our employers up so they can suckle and get fat while we struggle to put a roof over our heads and food in our bellies
Sooo true - I spent the last 12 years of my working "career" living from weekend to weekend, not just unengaged from the job, but actively disengaged. I just stopped trying, settled for C's in my evaluations, & counted down the months to retirement. Life has never been so good since getting the hell out of there.
every minute i'm here is a minute i want to leave, but having a secure and decently paying job at the age of 26 is a hard drug to beat. i always swore i was never going to be like the generation before mine, where the only thing i look forward to is the weekend and vacation time, but here i am. it kind of feels like my /self/ is being eroded somehow.
If you have a well paying job, try cutting back on your expenses and save (and invest) as much as possible. After a while you’ll have enough money that you feel save switching jobs (even if you were to be without job for a few months).
I left my very boring job at 26, a few months ago after three years. Was never going to move up in my role and could have stayed there many more years if I wanted. But I had to rescue myself. Money can be what keeps you there, but at the end of the day, if you feel lifeless, its not a good enough reason. Had to get out of there.
get out while you still can.
I wish we could talk, I’m in the same position. We are still really young, its doable to change careers... I don’t want to erode myself :(
Jason Hexley - exactly... “If you feel lifeless, (money) it’s not a good enough reason” You have no idea how much I agree!
I once got fired for having an earbud in my ear listening to podcasts and music on the job. I was working back to back 12 hour shifts, hated the repetitive rinse and repeat of packaging and running around up and down stairs, paper cuts, dirt under the finger nails, meeting rates...I was exhausted all the time. At some point, the (not well maintained) bathroom became my refuge. And that says a lot. The job made was making me depressed all over again. I thought, am I going to be doing this the rest of my life... I'd much rather die. So when I was terminated, I didn't even fight.
Wait they fired you bc u missed something important while u were listening to music or ur boss was like ur not a team player blabla im not a fan of earbuds ur fired
Looks like you were working for Amazon
@@lora4624 Well, believe me, but I read it that she was not doing anything wrong, but the boss just did not like that she had something to take the worst sting of the boredom away. I think that it is just normal how toxic bosses work.
Just started working for a company refurbishing railroad axles and the pay is good but deathly dull and the boss told me anyone caught with phones on the floor are fired on the spot.After 2 days I started wearing an earpiece to listen to podcasts and audiobooks.Still the job sucks so bad I'm not going back life is to short to work doing something you hate.
@@cameronking3551 did you go to Tesoro high school? Haha
This is why I listen to podcasts for literally my entire shift, quenching my thirst for both knowledge and entertainment. I feel very grateful in that sense.
I do the same
Same
I used to do this but my boss prohibited us from listening to anything during our shifts. 😣
You are so correct
And do you then take any action, or just keep soaking up info day after day?
This was really interesting and new to me.
No wonder why curiousity is the only emotion that has the abilty to increase your focus on anything. You don't get distracted when you are curious.
There is a Mexican or a Chinese willing to take on the tasks that a lazy person in the US don't want to take on.
@@mannyechaluce3814 and that’s exactly why we can’t make any progress with reforming our labor force. If the Mexicans and Chinese would apply the same merit back home their countries would be better places to live
Visions and inspirations make you curious so curious you're right I like what you said
@@themodernmonk9 let me give you a contradictory example when you were 16 years old and your father was kicking you out of the house because he couldn't stand the way you were being at home and even if you were being good he already wanted freedom for himself imagine you trying to fix that home it's impossible that's why many people around the world come to the United States there is plenty of opportunity for growth here and people in the United States are always seeking ways to better themselves and the country and that's why they come to the United States with all their vision and their dreams and their inspirations they're ambitions and they make this country a better place not only for themselves but for all of us as well many partners that are now living in the United States have better this country so much Nikolai Tesla is one of those
@@joesanders4038 only people from poor countries are trying to come to the US now. Why would I give up 6 weeks holiday, sick pay, maternity /paternity pay, free healthcare and many other employment laws and protections to go help some American get richer.
I read an article from an American the other day saying he'd rather be unemployed in France then work a 100k job in America
It amazes me to see how many of us (especially individuals between the ages of 22-26) are going through the same thing. Disliking / hating the mundanity of such repetitive and unfulfilling work - I trust we all find the thing that makes us spark
Wait til you're 37.
Harder to make moves when you’ve got family,
Kid,
Mortgage and commitments.
Make the move when you’re free of responsibility, don’t let managers or others dictate what’s best for you, do what you want to without any barriers
@@CEO786 And so I tried damned hard to not have those commitments.
Kids? Never.
Relationship? Well maybe if I knew how.
Car? Bought used from a friend, no payments.
Mortgage? Rent a room in a house, I'm not even on the lease.
And you know what? It's still damned hard to change anything.
Be it through creating a utopia where people can actually be free, or annihilating humanity, I hope AI tears it all apart.
@@SimuLord Sadly there isn't enough exchange between older and younger generations, or even between people within the same generation, so how would anyone know.
I'd say the onus is on the older generations though, they have the experience of both sides, if anyone knew better it should be them.
But it seems they do not, it seems they forgot.
@@kamikeserpentail3778It seems they got brainwashed
I just can't give my all to something that my heart isn't in, no matter how good the pay is. Three and a half years ago I got myself into a position where I now only work two 12 hour shifts a week in an industry that pays very well. My heart still isn't in it but it's only two days of very easy work which makes it so much more bearable. I was told I was mad for giving up full-time work because the money was so good but I was miserable and depressed. Now I have five days a week to dedicate to the things in life that matter.
I've always felt that spending all your days doing things that don't stimulate you mentally, physically and spiritually is a total waste of life.
Here's to all of us who had the balls to say "Fuck it, I'm out".
What industry / role are you in?
Cheers!!!
What kind of job is that?
Sounds like nonsense purely on the fact that they haven’t responded.
@@jamesleon4883 If I was lying I could have just replied and made something up.
Not that I have to go into my details to prove anything to anyone, but I work in medical device manufacturing which pays well, and one of the work patterns on offer is two 12 hour shifts at the weekend with two night shifts every other weekend.
We get a shift rate percentage on top of our pay.
Because I chose not to get married or have kids, I don't need to work full time as the pay is sufficient to support me and have some extra left over.
It's all about balancing how much of your time you want to sacrifice, for however much money you will be happy with.
One of the reasons I love my job is that although it keeps me very physically busy and I sweat up a storm daily, there is no real mental demand at all. Frees my mind up to think about anything and everything all day long. My entire work day is like a vacation in my own mind. Never gets boring.
🤔
"why is chopping wood a popular task? Because one can see immediate results." Albert Einstein (apparently)
I quit an engineering job to go work as a cook and absolutely loved it. It was hot, busy, difficult, social, and I felt more purpose in making a stranger a salad than I did writing code for the military.
If jobs like that paid more, I would 100% do them over engineering, but the pay was atrocious.
I can't believe something as slow-paced and easy as my previous job could be worth so much more an hour than the tornado of hard work and drama in a restaurant.
@@notgate2624 I think it comes down to how many people have the skills and knowledge to do each kind of labour, and the different potential market values of the products of that labour.
@@AmadeuShinChan that's a good quote but not what op means
I am quitting my draining job in two weeks. All the time I was blaming myself for feeling bored and not being able to stay focused, feeling bad and guilty. But now I see it clearly and I know it’s never 100% my fault for feeling that way. There is one toxic belief I realised why I stay in this job for so long “if this place doesn’t want me nowhere else will”.
Leaving this job not knowing what to do next is scary as hell,so I choose to focus more on believing in myself that I can breathe life back into me.
how are things going for you now? i feel like i'm in a similar position to you but i'm scared to leave not having anything lined up
@@grantcanty7294 Hello!
I am doing okay after purposely putting myself in rock bottom to learn things I need to learn. I won’t have the perfect advice for you because our situations are quite different, I will put down what I have learnt so you can prepare yourself:
-saving money before quitting is important, if you decide to jump, also learn how to swim when things get hard.
-planning before quitting is important, plan as much as you can while you are still working there.
-the thoughts and the fears came up for me during the time I had no job were so much worse than the situation itself so I learn a lot about myself during this time.
-a culture of working constantly with no rest is toxic to our whole being on so many levels.
-doing the right thing feels like doing the wrong things because I decide against how my family and society expects of me.
-during the time of not having a lot of money with me, I learnt to manage my finance, observing my spending habit to stop buying things I don’t need. Less is more.
-there are skills I learnt during the time of not working is actually more important for my future: being aware of thoughts and fears, emotion regulation, self care, being there for myself no matter what, what is truly important for me, resting, allowing and surrendering.
Hope this helps! I believe everyone has the right and ability to leave what doesn’t work anymore and build a life best suited for them! Wishing you the best of luck!
@@malia7653 woww sounds like you went through a lot but i hope you're doing better now, at least. are you happier with your new job though?
@@grantcanty7294 Thank you so much for being here with me. I truly appreciate you.
I haven’t got a new job as all the time without a job I did serious life reflection and what I am happy with is how my intention has changed: it is less about finding a job and more about building a life that is more suitable for me, and the job is a byproduct of that. I am now only interested in working for myself so I only work for short projects. A lot less money and more uncertainty but I am sure something great will come out of this.
@@malia7653 appreciate you as well! that's awesome though! you found what works for you and you're living it
I relate to this so much. I went to college for basically 10 years and was incredibly passionate about what I was working toward. I would learn on my own about the subject with no immediate gain on my part. When I entered the workforce, my passion got squashed almost immediately by the "stay in your lane" mentality. Innovation and new ideas are actively quelled for the sake of making the organization continue to run in the same way, when in reality the organization and the entire field is in need of massive overhaul. It's more than disheartening, I worry for the future of humanity if we continue in this direction.
I feel this
Humans are like computers, growing up, the Schools and colleges and figurehead code us never have original ideas, to just always do and work and keep doing. Humans are seriously being conditioned to be mindless working slaves to their employers, and then told to be happy about it and that's what's life is all about.
It kinds of encourage people to do the impossible with at least as resource as possible.
Use your free time to build something different out of your passion.
📖💯
I can't keep a job more than 1 year because I'll go crazy. I have to constantly be doing something different.
same here how are you doing now man
Me too, jobs, hobbies..
I need a new job now
There is a Mexican or a Chinese willing to take on the tasks that a lazy person in the US don't want to take on.
@@mannyechaluce3814 And Indian I guess.I'm Chinese btw lol
I have felt exactly the same. I started photography some years ago as a sidejob which wasn't very profitable in the beginning. I had to do lots of boring jobs before I could finally sustain myself with my job of passion.
Living frugally and never having one's identity tied to a job or career is the only way I've been able to maintain a modicum of sanity selling my labor (the weed really helps too).
It really does help LMAO.
@@Mad_Intellect We thank u for your Wisdom, Stranger.
Martial arts and weed..... a really good life- affirming combo ( not at the same time though).
@@silverfish8059 yes indeed...weed, workouts, water, and walking...every day in any permutation really...makes me love life just a little bit more
@@silverfish8059 dang i'd like that. I stop doing martial arts for a long while, even though it was one of my very few passions
This is why I go to my job high.
Justin S 😭😭😂
Youu the man!
@Alexia Conza uh weed I assume... it's more easy to come by
Have gotten thru SEVERAL days much smoother because I was stoned.
must walk a lot of stairs then, or do you take the lift?
I never once looked at a job posting and thought how awesome it was. Every job looks boring to me. And that's fine. What I can't stand is ingratitude. I had a job once as a high school teacher and I couldn't stand it. No one is more ungrateful than a teenager because most of them (at least where I was) aren't knowledgeable enough about the world to appreciate anything yet, and I found out I wasn't patient enough to help teach them that lesson. Now I work for a small business with an EXTREMELY grateful employer who may not always go with my feelings but ALWAYS takes them into consideration. I have been with that employer 15 years and no telling how much longer I will stay there. Because it's VERY good to be appreciated, even if the work involved gets dull from time to time.
Yes being appreciated makes a world of difference. That's the kind of team spirit you want. When your boss actually cares. One thing I crave is autonomy.. I can't stand being micro managed. Just let me do my thing and it will turn out great.. annoy me and my work suffers.
I sorta feel you on that one. All my life and throughout school the question of what field of work I would go in kept popping up, and I've come to realise that what I do for work isn't actually as important as the environment around that and the people I work with.
Obviously children dont like being in school. They're forced to be there with no means of legal recourse until they're 18. You wouldn't be very motivated either if you were locked in a cage for 12 years and forced to do mundane tasks
@@napoleon2564 I was a child. I remember what school was like. But I didn't respond to it quite as negatively as some other kids did. I never thought being in school was unfair, just like I don't think having to go to work is unfair. If I never use any resources like food and clothing, THEN going to work is unfair. But I use that stuff, so I need to trade something for it. That's why I go to work.
can I ask what you do now?
I quit a soul-sucking job in the middle of the pandemic. Scariest thing ever, but best thing I ever did. I was bored out of my mind every single day, the boss was mental and I got so ill out of stress, it was just too much. I took a new job in another town, something very different. It feels great to learn new things, not sure how it will go down in the long term, but right now my life is better.
Same here as far as timing. Beyond tired of the office politics too. I might be broke but I'm doing what I love now. Just as important is never allowing myself to be a weasel like those people back there. Imagine lying and undermining a person without a care in the world. Good riddance.
After about 4 or 5 months on the job, my anxiety kicks into overdrive and I develop severe physical reactions towards having to go to work in the morning. I need to be on disability. The stress of needing to make money to survive, by doing boring unfulfilling bullshit is ridiculous.
Are you spectrum or HSP? A lot of us who are one or the other of those experience the same phenomenon. The best way I've found around it is project work. By the time you're getting antsy, it's often time to move on to the next project anyway.
Bro, its time to call it quits and go out and find another way to make money.
The same thing happened to me. Now i live in a car. It's actually really good except for a few months in winter.
Have you ever found a "solution" for this? or a way to manage it?
I thought I was the only one.
This reminds me of a long held belief of mine. That the common human experience of time seeming to pass by more quickly as we age, is directly tied to an increase in the tedium that the average worker experiences as their tenure grows.
When one spends 5 days a week with the goal of reaching the two days leftover, rather than fully experiencing all 7 days, it is impossible to be present enough for those two days to make up for the lack of presence in the work week.
Put simply, we get so good at burning the time we are conditioned to believe is not our own, we eventually aren't able to slow that clock on the time we've been allowed for ourselves. Unfortunately, by the time many of us realize this way of living is actually stealing from ourselves, there is little that can be done to recover the losses.
Bingo. Time is your treasure.
Noticing this more and more. Gotta make a change.
This happens also to people who haven't been working much. I speak from experience. I haven't been able to work basically at all in my life because health issues and time seems to move faster tge older I get.
"it is impossible to be present enough for those two days to make up for the lack of presence in the work week." Presence has nothing to do with jobs. Presence is intention and practice. External cirumstances are not relevant.
It’s nice when you have a job where you can just dissociate and have it not really negatively impact your work. Then when you get home it doesn’t even feel like you ever went to work in the first place, and you have more energy to do stuff you actually like doing.
My last few jobs (and covid) were like this. I accomplished SO MUCH in life over that period because I had the head space. Nothing worse than a boring, repetitive job where you’re obligated to be fully engaged the *entire* time you’re there. blech
Most people, myself included are just numb when we are at work.
Yeah, I think it's way more than the 18% he quoted.
For most of the jobs I’ve had, I just mentally check out the moment I enter the door. I have no idea how other people can endure 15+ years of waiting tables and washing dishes without going insane. It’s a skill I wish I had, but I currently don’t.
Preston Owens at least waiting has some people interaction. Imagine doing a repetitive task hotel don't care about on a screen the whole day. It kills you.
P C which video is this? I'd like to see more
Bro, life is too short to be that way. You are wasting your own time doing that.
This makes me think about the time I came up with a way to display more product and increase sales of it, but even after proving that it worked, the district manager told everyone in the store to stop doing that and, like a typical mid level authority figure, never provided a reason.
Talk to the CEO about your idea man. This managers can't be trusted for anything.
I figured out a way to insert elements into a CAD file based on point descriptions. What this meant is that instead of manually panning through literally thousands of survey points and placing each individual element by itself, I could all but instantly put them in all at once. This meant taking something that would normally take a couple of days and turning it into something that took an hour. Because of exactly the type of thing you're talking about here, I choose not to tell my supervisor. I'm sure he would have told me not to do it that way and came up with some bs reason for it, if anything. Now I get reprimanded for working too quickly (After I was criticized my first week for taking too long.) So I have to constantly try to make 2 hours of work last the whole day.
Yeah managers are conservatives, they dont like anything creative
The manager knows that if his group is too efficient, someone will be fired and the budget reduced. Companies are slow, but they eventually adapt by paring away excess workers until the remainder are back to working frantically to keep up.
@@mr5elfde5truct don't understand
I’ve always enjoyed being a delivery man/driver for small business family owned restaurants. While going to college. I actually have some input and am part of the family. Love the shoutout to delivery people.
I currently work as a mailman and feel super engaged at work for some reason, I always feel like I'm challenging myself to finish faster than last time, and if there's a huge amount of mail, I challenge myself to just even finish in the first place. Also working in a city and area I've never been too makes it cool to feel that progression of understanding the area more and more every time I'm assigned a new route. Did a little over 50h last week and felt pretty great at the end of it, week went super fast (and I have to wake up at 5am every day too(!!))
@@kiiturii yes that's until you get promoted and set your high standards on newcomers, and the next headline would be "company x forces people to pee in bottles"
This video pushed me to step out of my comfort zone with networking. I've been working at a company for 4 years in the design field, and have felt my creative process become stifled over the past couple of years. I've been haphazardly sending my resume to new job opportunities, but my stress and anxiety trying to figure out what I want in my life has kept me from moving away from the security provided by my current job. That ends today because this video made me realize how unhappy I really am "staying in my lane."
Small doses of what gives you anxiety and that you're able to clear can be curative. Hope it works out.
"They're not engaged ..."
... and they're not paid.
My boss, back when I was in I.T., gave me a metrically-measured project to write a manual on everything I did as an analyst/developer/programmer. It seemed ludicruous to me ... because my job was fundamentally, while systematic and logical, an art form to me. It also took away from my time constantly pleasing my internal customers with projects that directly impacted the way their job functions were able to become more efficient. I had about six months to do the task, and although I put a lot of effort into it, the scope I planned out became bigger as I fleshed it out. The one thing that de-motivated me the entire time was that my boss was obsessed with replacing people with automatic systems or 'jack-of-all-trades' slave I.T. technicians, which was really not my raison d'etre - I was a craftsman, and a damn good one. So I finished about a third of the manual, and my boss used that as justification to fire me, while also telling me in the exit interview that I always did quality work (in my actual projects)!
freaking insane man i worry world is going crazy when it comes to employers...
Curiosity is THE most underrated and undervalued human feature ever. I still wouldn't necessarily demonize the systems we created to boost productivity, but it is crystal clear to me that we need to address our lack of curiosity in life for our own good and, consequently, for everyone else.
When you are able to give a meaning to What you are doing you can cope with the situation. The more meaning you get from the job the more motivated you become.
I remember having so much curiosity and wanderlust for the world and I still want to see so many places, but to get to that point to where I can travel the world and explore my mind and as much as possible in the world, I have to endure staring at the floor for 12 to 14 hours a day laying tarmac, it's completely soul destroying.
Being in a place where you don't want to be and doing something you utterly hate is the way to kill your human spirit and passion. I can't wait to end this mind numbing process and explore like I'm meant to do.
We all have it in us. Don’t lose the curiosity and wanderlust of life man 🙌🏽
Don't wait, quit now
@@andyd6338 at the minute I don't find it as waiting, I know what I want to do, it's just trying to buy my freedom otherwise it will get to a point and put me back 2 steps.
I work in a grocery store in Canada and make just over $20 an hour. I enjoy my job, but my job doesn’t make me who I am. I have so many interests outside of work that I don’t get stressed out at work. I spend lots of time with my wife and son, but also have my private time. My job creates money to pay for things and my personal interests/family creates my happiness.
Well - I'm bored shitless most of the time at work, but there is nothing I can do about it.
I'm too efficient at doing the job, so I end up with 95% down time.
That is part of the problem. Most people is too efficient for their job but still the number of work hours have not been reduced. Lots of people could do their job in five or six hours and call it it a day, however they are stuck 8 hours or more at work.
The 60's science fiction promise of more leisure time in The Future (and better wages) was never realized , because a combination of corporate greed and calvinist work ethic.
I think a lot of social problems derive from the lack of balance between work and personal life ( stress, heart diseases, alcohol and drug abuse, insomnia, etc)
I love my job so much I skip into the office!
You and others are a casualty of an outdated system. The problem is that you are getting paid by the hour, not by your results. You have to figure out a way to stop selling your time.
I'm designing and writing the software for the machine :)
You could see if you can help others with their workload. Although make sure with your boss and fellow co workers. You might learn something new and possibly be promoted/raise.
Happiest I ever was, was when I grew and sold cannabis directly to customers. I like my job now fixing people cars in a small shop with 2 other guys. Nothing beats being your own boss though.
Why did you stop? I can probably guess...
Lol so you we're a drug dealer.
Joe Chuckles legalization I used to grow a medical garden but now cannabis is about worthless since big business has taken over cannabis.
Mister Guy it's not worth anything anymore. Used to be 3000 a lb now it's down to 500 a lb no money left since legalization in California.
Will E. Calling cannabis a drug sounds almost as stupid as saying someone who stole candy is a murderer. Medical marijuana has bin legal in California for years dumbass. People like you that call cannabis a drug or people who sell it a drug dealers are some of the most ignorant people on the planet. Keep being a puppet dumbass.
I started work as an events technician for a local sound and lighting business where i live, and it was singlehandedly the best decision i made for my career. I run backline and lighting for concerts, audio for conferences and such, i meet almost every client and help plan events... Best of all, it’s almost never repetitive. In my experience, working for huge companies with thousands of employees has always been very much an exercise in drudgery.
It's great to hear someone put into words what I've been feeling for years. Thanks for the upload!
There is a Mexican or a Chinese willing to take on the tasks that a lazy person in the US don't want to take on.
@@mannyechaluce3814 your point?
@@sebastianortiz8955 he is copy pasting shit. He said this by others too💀
Agree...can't stand my career ,but it pays decent.
Michael Anderson what do you do for living?
Ana Luisa Lima nursing
Dude, that's a job that's actually closer to his cobbler comparison. You're getting to help people 1-on-1 on a daily basis and have an impact on their lives in a time of need. If you don't like your job, start looking for a new one, because no one wants to be sick in a hospital and have a nurse that doesn't give a shit.
@Borp
Its possible that he says he's disengaged from his job not because of the nature of duties, but because of working conditions. Or the attitudes of coworkers. I've heard stories from my teacher whose wife is a nurse, and while she loves people and loves assisting others, shes surrounded by nasty coworkers and constantly picking up after them. So that's possibly what he meant.
@Nick Walker
That's fair if that's the case, but he said ''career" not "place of work". No one should stay in a toxic work environment for "decent" pay, there are good people elsewhere that will appreciate you.
Im 18, i used to work in a retail job, where the majority of my coworkers were out of uni and had decent degrees. They still ended up in a full time (5-6 days a week) mind numbing retail job. My coworkers were pretty chill but i couldnt bear the small 6 hours of work i had to do on a saturday. Ive quit now because of my exams, and if my plans go well hopefully i wont have to work in a place like that, or work for someone else ever again.
I do not want my life to be waiting for the weekend, and im going to work my ass off to prevent it from happening. So lets see what happens!
I hope i remember this comment i made and i can come back in 10 years to reply to it lol.
I work for a fairly large organization. When I started, I was all excited to both do my job and to contribute to the organization. I was soon disabused any notion that anyone at my work had any appreciation of either what I do or the ideas that I had to contribute.
I found that when I offered ideas, even when I was the only one in the room who had thought about a particular aspect of my job and/or my organization, and several times even when my PhD related directly to the topic at hand, my ideas were dismissed out of hand and I was chastised for even thinking that I had a place to offer anything to the organization The so-called problem? I have job title x and only those with job title q are to give ideas to the organization, NEVER job title x or anything other than q. Of course, I know of at least two occasions when a q person dismissed my ideas then later submitted and took credit for them as his own (and yes, I do think gender dynamics also plays a role here).
I have never been someone who thinks that they are always right, nor do I think that all of my ideas are the best or even necessarily what the company needs; sometimes people in other areas of the organization know information that I do not and so have different ideas of what will work and what will not. However, it is very frustrating to be dismissed out of hand without anyone even hearing my ideas just because of an arbitrary possession of x title instead of q, especially at times when I am uniquely qualified to understand a particular aspect of my job or the organization.
When my new supervisor transferred in from another department she had the 'get to know you' interviews with us. She commented to me that she noticed I often have good ideas. I explained to her that yes I do, but that I would never again offer any to this organization. From now on, I am taking the time and energy that I would have spent on generating and trying to gain acceptance for my ideas at work and pouring it all instead into my own projects and into finding a job at an organization that appreciates what I do. My supervisor was saddened by that but had to admit she could see my point of view.
In the meantime, I have completely disengaged emotionally and psychologically from my job - I still give good work but nothing more than my exact job description. I really have also taken all of that ideas energy and poured it into my own projects and into finding a job at an organization that appreciates what I do. One of the key features I had already listed for the new type of organization is to look for one that is new, small, and growing so quickly that they appreciate constructive input from everyone without boxing people into narrow job titles that limit their talents and creativity.
Sidenote: today's technology could allow us to work significantly less, if only the world wasn't driven by profit and there was a universal basic income of sorts. Doing a job for 4 hours feels VERY different to doing it for 8-10 per day. It could mean better productivity and better well-being.
A Universal basic income would only make you a slave of the government. Being dependent on exterior factors is the worse thing you can do to yourself.
@@P4r4k But with automation seems like it will happen anyway
Technology takes obsolete jobs, but create new ones. We automated our light system on the streets, would you prefer candles to keep the candle lighters jobs?
@@P4r4k What about cashierlees stores and now they are having robotic assistant for doctors to replace nurses
@@youngatnaruto Someone will have to program these robots, and someone will need to do repairs and etc.
Progress, convenience, and a better life for all only came through change, development, and adaptation. Automation has been going on for more than a century in countless professions, all for the better.
As a psych student i love how clearly interested and excited he is, that’s how i feel when I’m in class and learning cool stuff
This was so insightful yet despairingly dystopian...
Sometimes I hate having so much insight and developing further. It really makes me question the system and myself more and more..and opens my eyes even more with every time. I know it's time for a change but sometimes you just can't immediately quit a job etc. because there are many other factors/circumstances which are intercepting/hindering you temporarily. You really have to THINK rationally about your next step which might completely change your future. (for the good or the bad)
I started a 4 year apprenticeship when I was 15 that consisted almost entirely of punching holes in steel plates. I’m 53 and really good at it now… I love punching holes in steel plates! It completes me… 😱😱😱
Wow amazing video! I have just handed my notice to my employer, mid size company (under 10,000 people). What you have described rings so true! I will be starting my new job in a small start-up and can't wait to be challenged and be rewarded for thinking outside the box and having real input, instead of just being "employee number xxxxx, doing yyyy, easily replaceable".
“In the progress of the division of labour…The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.” ...ADAM SMITH, THE WEALTH OF NATIONS.
Funny how Capitalism and Communism are just two roads to the same place.
what page is that on? I've been looking for it
That is an amazing quote! It's what I've been trying to explain to people ever since I started working with my hands - there is so much satisfaction and fulfillment in figuring out how to do things and getting things done!
There was a PBS show some years back, "Frontier House", where several families were challenged to live like 1870's homesteaders. The men all ended up agreeing that the lifestyle (handling their own problems and actually seeing how their work benefited their families) was much more satisfying than their real jobs. The children also adjusted well to being useful, rather than students/pests. The women, however, HATED the frontier lifestyle from start to finish, because their work (cook, dishes, laundry, cook, dishes, laundry) was MORE drone-like than their real jobs.
@@slappy8941 well in fact your sentence does not make any sense. If you interest yourself in the Marxist conception of the philosophical meaning of work for human beings, it has a drastically different meaning than the classical and neoclassical one.
This makes me grateful for my job. I certainly suffer from boredom and malaise sometimes, but I have the privilege of being regularly challenged and required to seek out new information in my line of work.
3:14 - removing the meaning from the work, removing curiosity from the job.
totally agree... repetitive and tedious tasks with no overview is depressing.
This man Is so nice to watch! I love his happy attitude!
True.
I actually noticed that too. An intelligent man with a sweet smile.
One thing that would help loads with my job would be able to listen to music or a audio book or something. Instead, we run the risk of getting in trouble for doing that. Just feels like management wants work to be a punishment sometimes.
Turned out I wasn't getting enough omega 3, vit D and exercise. Now I'm more engaged in work despite it not being a huge challenge. I am taking on new challenges.
Exercise sure helps with depressions and anxiety or just blow out steam after a long boring day.
@@64jcl Not trying to be a total downer, but it gets so hard to keep a good exercise routine going on when you gotta wake up at 6am and you get home at 7pm feeling exhausted. Only looking forward to weekends so you can get some good rest is a bleak reality.
@@misanthropus0 try to move closer to your job so you can free time to do other things. Even if it means paying a little more rent. Time is the most precious resource we have, dont waste it in the commuting
I don't know g, I'm out of the house 14hours at a time and I can still fit in a weight routine and 45min cardio on my work days. Stop cutting yourself down and fishing for pity because of it. Thats how you waste your time.
I’ve spent about 10 years recovering from the trauma of school, which was a work prison that I still have nightmares about. After years of work to get myself in the right position, I came up with a big idea that means I can now play in my mind whenever and wherever I am. It’s permanent freedom from mental drudgery. I can’t remember the last time I was bored.
tell me your secrets
LKJ, I learned to amuse myself by playing the game “that’s like” to make mental connections between things and then started doing it all the time, while reading, learning, observing, even in small talk when trying to figure out what someone’s incomprehensible job title meant. That was about it, connecting things by playing in metaphor, then BOOM the mother of all metaphors hit me
@@EmperorsNewWardrobe Alright. So this game of making mental connections between things really that interesting that it takes away the monotonous things in life? Alright I'll try it.
@@thoughtaddict2739 it led to a huge portfolio of creative ideas for me (and continues to), so if you have creative pursuits or aims, it may well be a useful exercise. There’s no guarantee of course, but I’d love to know how you get on in, say, a few months from now
Hey, I am interesting in this Idea, but I can’t quite catch the example, to fully understand it. Can you provide another example o expand on this technique?
Here because I'm perpetually bored in my job (been in it not even 3 months) and going out of my mind. Dan puts it very well indeed. When I worked for a smaller company I really felt the impact I was having and could have (that bit stressed me out, however). The subject matter also really helped too, as I was personally interested.
Since then (I left as it was too stressful and underpaid), I've been at bigger organisations and it's the polar opposite. Can't "tread on anyone's toes" by doing things outside of your remit or because I have experience that could help. People's egos are so easily damaged. As Dan says, "Stay in your lane".
There's got to be a better way to earn money than this...
This is where AI and automation could actually become a boon to work culture and society as a whole. These advancements could take the boring, dreadful work away from us and allow us to pursue rich, meaningful work instead, so that we might once again find a way to discover purpose in our endeavors and engage with one another as human beings, all while enjoying the economic benefits of mass production.
you watch another Ted talk? you mean the rich fleecing the poor and selling you to find your purpose.. lol
That's always a possibility too, if we're not careful. That's why the fight to preserve equality and the social safety net today is so critical, so we aren't setting the stage for the rich and powerful to use automation and AI as a weapon to screw the rest of us over and leave us with nothing in the future.
Personally I think that if we allow permanent private ownership of AI tech, it will inevitably lead to monopolization and the effect will be exactly as you describe. We're certainly on course for such a future as it stands right now. A couple ideas could be to set AI patents to expire after a set amount of time and enter the public domain (maybe a few years, given the assumed pace of technological advancement in the field). This would ensure that no permanent monopoly could exist, though it does carry the risk of a single private entity enjoying a permanent lead over everyone else. But this could be an option that those on the political/economic moderate-to-right could swallow.
Another solution could be to simply turn AI over to the public domain. Use it as a sort of infrastructure that any private entity could tap into should they so choose, without significant barriers to use. This would eliminate the risk of a single private enterprise wielding absolute control of AI development and application, but would run the risk of stifling private innovation. On the other hand, we should probably assume that AI will ultimately be capable of developing itself at a pace that far outstrips any human efforts, so it's possible that the factor of private innovation will become a moot point.
Or we could rely on regulations to determine limits on how AI is allowed to be used. But this might turn into an ad hoc endeavor, with regulators perpetually playing catch-up in a rapidly-advancing field, unsure of how best to react to the latest developments. Plus you would require a government with an appetite to enforce these regulations.
Point is, we have no idea how we're going to actually use AI today, nor do we know the ultimate outcome. But we'd better start thinking and strategizing now, because if we get this right, it could be quite beneficial to all of us. No matter how you slice it, we really are on the cusp of an economic and technological revolution, whether we want to be or not.
@@TheAxlin monopolies are unsustainable as they all eventually fall. Meaning eventually even if companies used AI against us the company will eventually stop working properly and AI would probably not care about the company once the AI is taken by the people since AI only has artificial intelligence not artificial emotions. So either way we will change the system. It is inevitable.
What is this rich, meaningful work futurists like to talk about? If robots are.doing all the useful stuff (food production, electricity, surgery, etc), no human work is "meaningful".
Do you mean we'll all mess with hobbies all day, and that just doesn't sound pretentious enough? Don't say we'll all volunteer at soup kitchens, because robots can make soup just fine.
Humans will lie on the beach, then fight over the best spots once beach-lying becomes the new normal and our instinct for finding ways to be unsatisfied kicks in.
I tend to think Judge Dredd had the gist of it -- we'll all end up stealing and fighting simply because we'll be so incredibly bored with NOT having to be busy.
there arent enough jobs. mass unemployment will follow. get real
Even though I have told bosses for years that I would be far more productive working from home, they never allow it. They always want to see their employees' faces. After decades of corporate life, it has become clear to me that companies are equally as disinterested in achieving peak productivity as they are in taking risks. You are just an easily replaceable cog in a wheel.
I got fired from a job that i HATED where i worked for and with people that i DESPISED, it was 10 hrs a day 6 and 7 days a week, getting fired from there is THE BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED, now i work 14 days a month with great people and i make 4 times the money that i used to
What about bored of life? Bored of paying tax to corrupt politicians who use the money against me?
bob marley I'm with you on that one. Met a nomadic type guy as i was walking along a river. Most humble and genuine guy I've ever met. Sat and spoke with him for hours. We didn't even know each others names till just before we parted ways. A true inspiration to how life should be lived (in my opinion).
Revolt my brother
Solution : create a new political party and rectify things.
@@Simboiss that's not a solution
@@cutyoursoul4398 Why not? People always say there is no good politician. Wlel then, become one, and rectify things.
I'm a computer programmer. I HAVE to be creative and live into my work. BUT we have more than 50.000 employees - so ... Don't be at trouble maker. Shut up and keep doing stupid things in insane ways. Nobody cares if you waste weeks as long as you follow the rules. I have justed sat a whole day doing absolutely nothing because someone changed my group assignment (that is locked me out of the servers), told no-one and went on vacation. I'm not allowed to talk to someone who might fix things, I must follow the red tape (call the delay office so that they may call the guy who gets things done).
I still "make trouble". I'm still young and naive. Even frozen mammoths DO change over time. But I miss the old days in a 21 person company (with the boss an expert in DEBUG and EDLIN).
In my opinion boredom is one of the spurs of creativity. But I feel really lonely.
typograf62 Spend all that dead time planning your escape.
I agree, boredom definitly spurs my creativity. Though, most jobs don't want/need creativity. So...
@rabitman3000 but you were sitting and getting huge money? Lol damn that sounds nice lmao
You need to breed my man
Russel Brand once said something that captured the way many feel about work life, "The person who once made bikes and watched a happy customer ride away on it, now works in a factory that makes the pedals". I've probably reworded that to a degree. Dan Cable has just summarised why I always longed to work for a smaller or start-up company. You're job role is to do what you can to help the business function and grow, so your ideas are welcomed; rather than one boring repetitive task always only. Otherwise I feel like a tiny cog in a giant machine I don't have any passion for.
Yep, confirming all this basing on my first person experience working in california in tech corporation as software engineer. Meaning crisis is hell of a stress. Opening my work macbook triggered tears almost every day for the last few weeks of my employment there. I'm free now.
Glad to hear you're in a better place now.
This is an interesting observation & one that i think explains the start-up mania right now. Ppl are just bored & need novelty. This happened to me. I retired early & just finished a BS in EE. Travelling the world for a year now while learning more about AI, machine learning, etc. Loving it!
This is many years later, but I currently started my solo lawn care endeavor. I’m 20 years old right now, but I understand this all too well. My goal with my business is to grow my knowledge with equipment and different aspects of landscaping as a whole to be able to hire the least amount of people possible and to teach them under my wing to be able to then do more in my business from a job standpoint.
Good luck!
I believe the term that this guy is searching for is “alienation of labor.”
There is a Mexican or a Chinese willing to take on the tasks that a lazy person in the US don't want to take on.
@@mannyechaluce3814 it has nothing to do with laziness. Look up what he said instead of assuming.
I thought the exact same thing...
He's nearly quoting Marx here lol he probably didn't want to make it political.
This is just another example of neoliberal "thinkers" explaining what Marx already said 100s of years ago. But because it's not a Marxist analysis it's accepted by the mainstream.
One of the most important video's I've watched this year.
There is a Mexican or a Chinese willing to take on the tasks that a lazy person in the US don't want to take on.
A thing that*'s similar to this phenom is the "Boreout syndrom". It's not just about repitive tasks, but tasks that bore you out to a degree when you stop doing them, no matter the consequences. But as I mentioned, it's not about repeating the same thing over and over. It's being bored at all with what you do, because it's too easy for your mental capacity. I suffered from this syndrom thrice in the past (twice during highschool, once while at a job), and am suffereing from it again right now doing my hobbies I held dear for more than 20 years. I know, time to level up to more complicated hobbies now, but it's kind of hard to let go.
Thank you! I needed this. It makes me feel better, like there’s nothing wrong with me; we are designed this way.
There is a Mexican or a Chinese willing to take on the tasks that a lazy person in the US don't want to take on.
I work as a low wage migrant worker in Japan (coming from a third world country). Food-related company. The work itself isn't that difficult, but it's the most boring thing I've ever experienced in my life. Hours and hours 5 days a week doing the exact same repetitive task. And this isn't for just us migrant workers. Everyone, including the Japanese employees, are bored out of our minds 10 - 16 hours per day, 5 days a week. I don't know how some of them have been working here for so many years, but this boredom is torture to me.
Life outside of work is great because Japan is extremely safe and convenient.
In my home country, I earned considerably less money, but I really liked my job. It mainly involved driving (not in the city much, but mostly in the countryside and highways, which was awesome). I'll stay here in Japan for a while but I will not miss this job even if my home country is extremely dangerous and I earn around 4x - 5x less than I do here. I'd rather risk doing that than almost falling asleep out of boredom every single day.
Yeah, I'm not from a dangerous country (well compared to Japan it is) but rn i have a really safe job that bores me to tears. Im going back to driving uber even tho theres a paycut and its definitely more dangerous than the deskjob im at rn but i don't care. Being bored for most of your life isnt okay. Ive had much harder and more dangerous jobs but this is one of the few jobs I actually dread going to. Literally 8 hours of wanting to leave.
i find myself doing toxic things after a long day of work to up my dopamine such as binge eat or binge watching tv and i realized its my way to escape my feelings of emptiness that i get from work 🙂..fun stuff
Just relax people, it just the way to enjoy our life
Well I was a career bartender. I knew precisely about not contributing to the world. My job gave me zero pride. I was getting older, and my handiness in my lifelong steelsmithing hobby was getting better, along with interest in what I do.. so I took the plunge. Started a business out of my garage making custom welded signs. Made some products, put out a ton of ads with pictures, and the orders have been rolling in. Quit my bartending job almost a year ago.. I enjoy the hell out of my work and I get MASSIVE pride from customer comments. Every day brings a new order, a new challenge, and a new story. I hope it never falls apart. Oh and the money is WAY better.
Badass!
Being "bored" in a job today is a luxury.
Usually people are tired, hopeless, grossed, burnt, disgusted, scared, anxious, fed up, sick, depressed, nauseous, stressed, among many other adjectives.
Of all the thousands of videos I’ve watched on RUclips this was the best!
I'm currently an electrician in a party of 4 for my state. I work with a narcissist, with an apprentice under him who's very similar. My journeyman was on hard drugs and partied hard, partied often and hates anyone who isn't his boy, including himself...
I show up, they degrade the work I enjoy every day. I continuously get monotonous, shit work in the name of apprenticeship but I'm 3 1/2 years in and most Learning opportunities for me come from ignoring their orders and doing what I feel is useful. I'm frustrated, neglected, and living weekend to weekend, check to check. My wife isn't very happy and we can't get out of our hole because I added medical bills to our expenses.
We drive broken down, last leg vehicles. I have 0 credit and 80% of income. Wife has great credit, but...my vehicles a series of small fires, encompassinhg a larger fire.
I can't do anything there without immediately starting it up, losing all interest, mind wonders and now I can't focus on the work at hand. A good buddy of mine from work left because he was on the sane road I'm on, he'd just been their longer...he has diabetes and the one place to could genuinely help a guy like that, he was drove off from by people he's known his entire life. I start getting angry still just.....I hate cliches, I hate conforming or the "my way or the high way" shit. I was depressed, mentally weak and holding on to the only quality I have ever ascertained in life....making others happy....I let myself get walked on and Abused. I neglected myself and when i meant to send the "im a good dude" vibe, i guess i rolled out the "I'm a nice guy, walk on me" matt and proceeded to let them take an inch.... I lost my patience, let go of ideals and have become so mentally numb with a job that requires a "get it" attitude. Physically is fine certainly but mentally, I don't even get to use it and it's the only good thing about me.
I've become so frustrated with the hole I sank myself into that I come to youtube comments where everyone knows everything just to say my piece because mentioning it. People just don't seem to understand that being somewhere where I may use no creativity, no out-of-box thinking....wake up at 5:30 am, arrive home approximately at 530 p.m. mon-thurs weekends if necessary.
I've had a very grueling, paranoia inducing 25 years of life....Seemingly normal people seem to be the most untrustworthy to me. As my entire life, these are the people that have affected me the worst.
All I want is a happy, healthy life for my family and the people around me....not awake at midnight and further because the only bit of happiness in the well is dried up when I park my truck for the day....I'm stuck and the one thing in life I just didn't want to be was stuck. No matter how I had to go about it.....but here we are. Ranting in a comments Section in place so far down, it'll never get read anyway.
I hate what I'm doing 46+hours a week. I just want to live, not to exist. I don't even care about being happy
You bring up some very good points, however the bored at work isn't always related to repetitive or meaningless work. I worked as a machine mechanic and had full autonomy, saw things from start to finish and the projects varied daily and i would interact with customers knowing my work was appreciated.
However, it's still what i would consider below my challenge level, as I had no formal training or schooling and self taught the majority of my knowledge. It got to a point that I could accomplish a days work in the last hour and would be bored out of my skull until then and actively hated wasting my mind any longer, I knew every trick to make quick fixes, it takes intelligence to be properly lazy.
Any task that is unsuitable for the mind completing it, will eventually become dull and loathed. Sadly most of us have little choice in those matters, and have to find other ways to stimulate our minds in the off time.
Brilliant with an infectious smile. Great work.
This is why I love doing social work at a school. I promise you, you’ll never be bored a day in your life lol. When the weekends hit, I’m excited to see my friends of course but I also can’t wait to go back in to work with my kiddos again.
Wow. This was so well explained and brought so many flashes of my 20s working, and why I ventured out to start my own. The book People Over Profit explains this evolution of work well, too.
I was working in a company and I was very bored. My work was so repetitive I couldn't care much at the end of the day. My performance went downhill as I had no real goal but only do the same thing everyday. I lost my job because of that but then I decided to take a chance instead of getting a new job in another boring company and go full time in photography as it was a passion I had and I can tell I'm a much happier man since then
I work a 5 to 9. I start at 5 am and in all the silence and peace of the early hours I perform on par for my required production. At 9 we have some mind numbing meetings with people who just woke up and after those meetings I'll just choose how to run my day from then on forward (so far the working from home dream during covid times)
The sad thing is, my manager expects me to be present during the day for atleast my contract hours. So I made a bot that moves my mouse so I stay 'active' and I connected notification to my phone. Everytime someone needs me I hop behind the computer.
The amount of short sight and non-leader skills these managers have is so poor. I hate them, but pity them for it as well.
Dude I really feel what you said !! I have been driving a truck for 20 years and I hate it ..
Me too , I'm so bored when I'm trucking it's unbearable
Excellent. Thank you. I have loved work where I didn't know what to do next week - could be any project, any customer, any domain, any technology. It was crazy, but I got lot of opportunities to learn, and loved it. There was trust that I could take responsibility and that it would be able to get things forward. Such a great time. Lot has changed from this time. Currently I do really struggle when I see that lot of opportunities for learning are not given to me, but someone else, just because I'm "reserved" for some 100% "planned to you by excel" task. I feel that optimizing persons capacity to be used fullest to named know tasks is diminishing learning as there's only one domain where you can learn.
Yeah my brain is saying “Fuck, I’m bored!”
It’s as simple as that.
I work at a call center and everyday I bring my headphones and listen to podcast on how to increase my wealth in between calls
martin 13 i watch videos that will help me gain a skill so i can work at home online.. i work at a retail store that sells home appliances and i STAND ALL DAY waiting for customers.. i get so bored.. anyway i hope i get out this rat race and i hope the same for you too!!
@@lesedisilape9734 wow that sounds horrible! Acquire that new skill and get out of that
Lesedi Silape its exactly what I do too! I watch tutorials on youtube at work because i plan to do freelance in a few months. Cheers.
i play sudoku
Did it work?
I've had four programming jobs. Only one of them I was passionate about. Very small company, low salary. I could learn so much, make so many meaningful choices, help out with the content writing, voice my opinions on the business, etc. I moved up to a bigger company with greater salary, and it felt less rewarding. Then to an even bigger company, with a big salary and benefits. I couldn't take in after 5 months. Now I'm looking for small startups again.
one more point: if you are assigned a task and being told to do it a certain way, most of the people would get annoyed due to lack of freedom in how that task is to be executed. Enjoyment at work comes when we have command over "how" we want to do that work instead of being forced to adopt a certain strategy which hinders our thought process and brings out thoughts which repel our willpower to do that work.
Ultimately the work done is never fairly rewarded if the company you work for is able to make a profit. There is no magical profit realm so someone has to pay for it.
1. Rip off your suppliers
2. Underpay your employees
3. Overcharge your customers
Even if you only screw one of those to turn a profit, you're still screwing the other 2 because you are taking the majority of profit and it's not fairly going to the people doing the actual work.
I can't find any enjoyment in this, it's not like i have a mental disability where something as simple as a lunchbox with my favorite cartoon character on it can make me happy for the day.
I feel like if we found a way to scale back to 32 hour work weeks (similar to some other countries) and scaled the pay with it for people, humans would be a lot happier. Essentially 4 days a week 3 day weekends. That's a lot better balance.
Your going to have to scale pay up significantly. $7.25/hr in 2021 is about the same as $0.07 in 1950 s money.
In countries with high production output, we could reach 10 hours/week very easily. This means 2 days of 5 hours. This implies a few things: revenue ceiling, removal of bullshit jobs, reform of the banking system, protectionism. To name a few.
Like the Amazon warehouse work?
4 days 10 hours.
Or, the new one: night shift 12 hours 3 days, 2.90 to even it out with the 4 day shift?
Yeah, I got that. I still feel dead inside.
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@@ClulssCrs3310 tbf amazon warehouse is just a very boring job. I would take 4 days and 10 hours for my line of work.
@@meia1855 I went back from 12 hour 3 day schedule to 10 hour 4 day. Feels way better.
It was so stressful for me that it was killing me at my job. Honestly killing me. I walked away 2 years ago and have never been happier. After 23 years, I just couldn't keep doing it. It saved my life. Boredom was an enormous part of it. I got bored after trying to redo things to make them more interesting time after time. It was just too much to see the rejection and being treated so horribly for just doing my job, one I thought I loved. I grew to really hate then get anxiety attacks when I had to leave each day. Then I was getting to where I wanted to hurt myself so I wouldn't have to go. It was really necessary that I quit and I did. It wasn't easy but I just had to. Best thing I ever did.
"The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become."
-- Adam Smith, Wealth Of Nations (1776), Book V, Chapter 1, Part III, Article II
He follows this with something that would make Anarchic-Capitalists pull their hair out - that is if they actually read it:
"But in every improved and civilised society this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body of the people, must necessarily fall, unless government takes some pains to prevent it."
Nice.
Neo-feudalism, here we goooo
I'm bored with life... But there's nothing to do... America sucks in many ways, that being a huge one. What is the purpose of life, like, really? Cause I know it can't possibly be that you basically just work until your senior years... There is no such thing as fun for me anymore, everything is just stressful, working, hanging out with people, taking care of myself, playing video games, etc.
This really hits home for me, if I am not solving a problem or learning something new, or doing something different it literally drives me crazy, my career path has been extremely diverse often with creative roles, unfortunately, I am at a complete loss as to what to do next...
We sure live in a Brave New World, don’t we?
I got the reference.
Who's the bernard
At least everyone got to be on drugs, I guess.
I'm looking for that 'special' job that I can go to everyday and genuinely enjoy. My current job is mindless, repetitive, non-stimulating and I've completely checked out from it. Worst part, I actually had to get a degree to do it. I dont plan on sticking around however, I'm actively looking for other opportunities.
It does not exist, even if you turn your passion into career, it only becomes another regular repetitive mind numbing work. I'm speaking from experience. I was once so happy being able to earn a living doing what I love, 2 years later not that much. The key is to love what you do whatever it is and pursue excellence, and reward yourself for your excellence so you can feel good.
This is the first time I have seen anyone address this topic. Thank you so much for sharing this!!
spend that downtime at work writing a novel
H P Alpha I've actually had multiple co workers that do that
I was fired once for drawing a rough draft for a piece on a break at work
I've done that LOL. You have to be careful about creating for yourself while on the job though, you could wind up in an intellectual property rights lawsuit if your employer finds out what you're doing and decides that since you were on their dime your creation belongs to them.
I have a disability but now I finally have a job. I consider it a career.
If I ever lost my job I would be without healthcare..
That’s why I honor my job and work hard for success. I am not bored . I trust my co-workers and strive for success.
Are you just covering your ass here because you realized that you made the mistake of watching this at work?
Im a young person, recently graduated from law school, and am actually working on my field, but something just doesn't feel good. My job has allowed me to build a little bit of wealth but, there's something just doesn't fit.
So, right now, after thinking about It, im planning to study psychology, I've always had the volunteer for helping other people, and It feels right to think I can contribute to the other people and the world in a different way than just being a lawyer.