[Insert Office Space meme here] 7 options: 0. Take a break, vacation, or go on some hippie mindfulness retreat. 1. Change your frame to find a way to handle

[Insert Office Space meme here] 7 options: 0. Take a break, vacation, or go on some hippie mindfulness retreat. 1. Change your frame to find a way to handle it, i.e., gamify it, measure it, make it a challenge, use it to gather industry intelligence and connections, and/or as a temporary evil to find escape from through other means. Remember that you own your work ethic, attitude, professionalism, and satisfaction level. In a some business contexts, some difficult things can be monetized and some companies refuse to monetize obvious opportunities. You will need to find a way to do (or automate) things other people find "extremely difficult" because there is often profit in it. 2. GTD + efficiency: delegate, defer, or trash tasks if and when they aren't essential to making impact you can get credit for and other people need now. 3. Smoothly move to a different job or different kind of job like management or as a business owner. 4. Cultivate hobbies and life outside of work. 5. Start a business (not a startup, because this is a unique and risky subtype of business) gradually on the side. 6. Be completely honest with yourself to identify your short-term and long-terms goals and your motivations to identify how you're going to make money and re-invest profits wisely. Notes: i. You're unlikely to get significantly rich quickly enough as an employee of another business without owning significant equity. ii. Try not to waste much life on non-value-add activities. If you're engaged in some activity, be sure it has learning potential, upside, or both. iii. Being a business owner doesn't make stakeholders disappear, but it shifts all of the risks and business judgements onto you. iv. Winning the lottery is magical thinking. The behavior of buying lottery tickets is the single strongest signal of someone who is unlikely to be rich according to the data of the late wealth researcher and author Thomas J. Stanley.