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A dull, boring job is predictable, and you can plan around it. You can devote your attention to whatever else you like. Until we start paying people to take vac
by Retra 12y ago
A dull, boring job is predictable, and you can plan around it. You can devote your attention to whatever else you like. Until we start paying people to take vacations and entertain themselves, boring is the next best thing.
Beats the heck out of being told what to think, want, and do. Worrying all the time that you can't take it and that you'll have to find something better (when you explode at someone for being an idiot.)
- dicroce 12y agoBoring is not the next best thing... Some people are actually paid to do the thing they love...
- Retra 12y agoYou are correct. Let's just call it "one of the more tolerable things" then. (That lacks the same rhetorical punch, I must admit...)
- jacalata 12y agorephrase: "As long as we aren't giving everyone the option of being paid a decent wage to follow their passion of basket-weaving, then a boring job is the next best thing"?
- fudged71 12y agoThe funny thing is that having access to many "boring" jobs that you can switch between might actually be interesting. Running a startup, I find it pretty cool to wear as many hats as I do. Some days we are dealing with contracts, some days it's scouting new office locations and painting, some days we're imaging hundreds of SD cards, or doing customer development, or pitching to investors, or shooting videos. Seperately, each of these things could be horrible mindless jobs. But together, it's a great experience. But I don't know if that's simply because there's a common end goal.
- bambax 12y ago> You can devote your attention to whatever else you like This is key. Also this: > Beats the heck out of being told what to think A very repetitive job with no one talking to you is not that bad, because you're free to think, dream, rehash some old story you heard, etc. Watching TV is the opposite of that, BTW, for that very reason (the whole purpose of TV is telling you what to think... and what not to think).
- frandroid 12y agoI bent sheet metal for a month. Very repetitive, lots of physical exertion. I could have lasted longer (I happened to move across the country for other reasons), but that was not my idea of a fulfilling life. Same thing a year later when I was doing data entry for months over the same forms. Ugh. I think you're misguided.