I had an 8-hour a day office job with about 10 minutes of actual work a day for a couple of years I know this isn't really relevant to the main topic under dis

I had an 8-hour a day office job with about 10 minutes of actual work a day for a couple of years I know this isn't really relevant to the main topic under discussion, but thank you so much for posting this. I thought I was the only one in the world. I work eight hours a day and I have between 10-30 minutes of real work to do each day, mainly fairly dull administrative stuff and answering the occasional email. I'm not underperforming, I do everything that's asked of me and plenty more besides, but there's just not enough for me to do. I can't even surf job sites or anything, to find something a bit more stimulating, because my screen is overlooked by colleagues. The workplace is poorly organised and unstructured - there are no performance reviews, no targets, nothing. I end up spending most of the day reading HN in my browser (because it's a 'safe' text based site that I can read without it being eye-catching to colleagues/the boss) and other sites in elinks in a terminal (to prevent images, huge fonts, etc). I also listen to a lot of speech radio, because that's invisible and still stimulating. I don't know why I really wrote this comment, but I just wanted to say how appreciative I am that I know I'm not the only one. It's been 18 months now... (Throwaway because my real account is under my real name.)