Boring Jobs

Is it your job’s fault that what you do is boring? Why is it boring?

Boring to one person might be interesting to another person. I had a job once that felt boring to me. It was the same thing I did over and over again. I knew the job. It wasn’t a difficult job, but it was the same old…same old…day after day. I wished for another job.

And I got it. Now, what I did required me to be light on my feet and able to switch from task to task. I’d never done that stuff before. It was terrifying. It was certainly not boring.

I moved on. Not through my own volition. I sort of got laid off. They couldn’t afford me anymore. I ended up at an even more difficult job. It took me about three years to feel comfortable in the job. In the past, I’d felt comfortable at new jobs about three to six months in. This was indeed a more complicated job. This was where I thrived. I didn’t know I liked difficult jobs. Imagine that.

This was also the job I got that forced my hand to become a writer. Not about the job, just that it felt to me like I was sick of telling people that one day I would be a writer. I believe I finally learned that if I wanted to be a writer, I’d best get to it and not hope for a job as a writer.

The problem was that I worked all day. In fact, it was more than a full day because that was the job I used to dream about. Even 10 years later, after retiring, having worked 20 years there, I still dream about that job. I used to go to my boss and tell him I wanted overtime because I’d dreamed about the job at night. He laughed. Right. Hey, it was a joke. Except I did come up with some good ideas because of those dreams.

The quest was to find some time to write. I was young enough that I could cut back on my sleep. I’d already been used to getting up early in the morning. I continued to do that, and in the extra hour I had in the morning, I would write. It got to be a habit. And I’d found some time to write. Even now, the first thing I usually do every day is to start writing.

I sleep in and usually rise at 7 or 8 am. I’m retired. I don’t need to be anywhere in the mornings. So, I get up when I get up. I didn’t realize how much I'd like doing that. It’s a bonus.

I’ve instituted some writerly habits that help to get my juices going. Like my Do-Good file. Based on a habit James Clear suggested in his book Atomic Habits, which was to think of something uplifting or happy the first time your feet hit the floor in the morning. Sort of like a nice glass of orange juice first thing in the morning. The only problem was that I would forget. I felt like a failure. And then something happened. I thought to myself, I’m a writer. Maybe I should adapt that habit into something uplifting that I could write at the start of the day. It worked. Just this morning, I thought, “When Bad is Good”. I wrote about 50 words about it for the Do-Good File. Then, I turned around, expanded on the idea, and wrote an article for Substack about it. That was useful.

Now, boring could be related to distasteful. Who wants to do boring? Nobody. But you have to. Why? Because it’s your job. I find housework to be boring. It’s why we have brown rugs in my house. My husband can’t see dirt, so we’re happy. We also have cats, and a lot of times they do things under the furniture that nobody finds for years. If it doesn’t smell, I believe in letting things alone. Besides, I would rather be writing. Sometimes, I will write about housework. That’s about it.

But, distasteful? Tax prep. Definitely tax prep. Which, because it is January right now, I’d best get started. Because nobody else is going to do it. So, yes, I should do a little bit today. Maybe a couple of hours. What’s that old saying? Sooner started, sooner done. That applies. Also, dreading something just prolongs the agony. Just get it done, Pauline.

Okay, maybe if I thought of it as a job. I have to be there. I have to get it done. I’ve already done some fun stuff this morning. This is the second article I’ve worked on. That’s good. Now, I’ll get some tax prep done. Overthinking it prolongs the agony. Just get it done.

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