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What boring jobs.

• spooneybarger 16y ago
  the world is filled with boring jobs. your goal should be getting yourself into a position where you have the opportunity to do work that you don't find boring. from what you have written, i assume for you that means ones where you get to think. working at mcdonalds doesn't involve much thinking. here is the burger, here is the proscribed way to make a burger, here is what goes on it. if you learn how to cook and get good at it, you can be in a position to play and create your own dishes. you could repeat the same basic story for most industries. i know people who have programming jobs that involve taking a cookie cutter website and adding some basic theme changes and providing customer specific offers. they are bored to death doing it. some people would be happy just to get the decent paycheck it provides. my point was that most organizations are built around people who solve the problems, come up with the tools to solve the problems and then others learn how to use the tools and repeat the process over and over again. don't put yourself in the position where you are one of the tool users if you want something more challenging.