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Been working in a job for seven months now and I feel so unchallenged and I am really starting to get EXTREMELY bored. So much that my quality of work is declining, because I just don't want to do it. The first few months were ok, because I was learning the ropes but now I am just so bored and unchallenged.
Not to brag, but I am very intelligent and very creative and if those needs aren't fulfilled I have a hard time dedicating myself. I think the problem is I am the creative type so I need something that can challenge that. Right now my job is mostly reading resumes and just managing/inputting data in a database. Not very inspiring. I'm starting the job search process but in the meantime how does one cope?
I used to motivate myself by applying to jobs and putting effort in to that, knowing that if I get another job I can be out of here. Also, I used to have messenger on my computer and I would talk to friends. One time I befriended this woman from a fitness website and we just emailed back and forth about our lives. It was interesting to get to know someone and helped pass the time.
I know what you mean though. At my current job, every month we do the same tasks and it just goes around and round in a circle. I'm starting to get really tired of it.
I would suggest something odd. Sleep less. It's amazing how a tired brain conforms to the doldrums of everyday office stuff. Of course, it helps if you have other interests and as you said, spend time applying to other places on your own time. But don't really let your work suffer, you can't have that thought "you don't want to do it" in your head everyday, or it is going to show. You could instead pro-actively see if there wasn't some other work you could take on. I carved a niche for myself by volunteering within a group, anywhere I could. And not in a showboating sense, just talking to people and finding out what they need, sometimes in different depts. I understand that it's not always possible but maybe the idea is find somewhere a bit more flexible with more variety.
Right now my job is mostly reading resumes and just managing/inputting data in a database. Not very inspiring. I'm starting the job search process but in the meantime how does one cope?
Traditionally with alcohol, though benzos are also popular.
Post more on this forum. It's challenging and stimulating, plus a prerequisite to being a member on the unemployment forum is the ability to correctly spell deoxyribonucleic or you are out of here.
I find myself feeling the same way. I have a job that employs me full time with excellent benefits and a good work schedule. BUT, I am a person that is constantly needing to think and analyze and have a project or a "puzzle" to work on, which my current employment rarely provides me. So, I cope with projects of my own. I organize and clean and work on things that give me the chance to change the very dull day. I am currently working on the filing room/storage area. I am labeling and even color coordinating my folders. I know pathetic, but I have a family that depends on me being employed and currently that is what I am.....employed. Unhappy most of the time because sometimes I just want to run as fast as my legs can take me but oh well. Hang in there and Good Luck! P.S. I have also been job searching because if the opportunity arises, I am OUTTA THERE!!!!
I can understand how you feel. Before my small-ish company merged with a larger one, I had a decent amount of opportunities to bring creativity to my work. I could initiate projects, change processes, improve how things were done, etc, and the culture of my company supported that.
Now I am part of a much larger bureaucratic organization. Everyone must stay in his or her role. No thinking outside of the box is allowed. New ideas need to get considered for approval by three or four layers of management before they are tossed aside...only to be suggested again by those same managers, who then pretend like they came up with the ideas themselves.
Fortunately, I can still apply analytic and creative thinking to some of my tasks, so I am not completely bored.... but I definitely understand how this can be a downer for people who don't have a chance to use those skills in a job.
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