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So I'm doing a different job for 4 weeks at work. I'm helping out in the service cash area and it's a very boring job. They don't really want me to do anything but file, answer phones, and cash out customers. That's it, that's all.
I just got a raise too.
I just got a raise too.
From my long experience in such jobs, allow me to suggest activities that you can do in the quiet period which will not get you fired. For all of the following activities, the secret is using SCRAP PAPER. If it is on tiny, torn scraps of paper it is automatically DOODLING which few bosses will resent.
-plan the house you will build when you win lotto. Draw out the floor plan, include measurements, decide which kid will have which bedroom, whether you'll be including fancy guest quaters and/or servant quaters, choose colour schemes and furniture, draw pictures of what the house will look like from all angles; then pretend that the block of land you choose is entirely different and do it all again.
-write an outline for a novel you'd like to write. Plan the major plot points, the characters, what the characters look like, their back stories, how they speak, how they get on with each other, rewrite your plot to take into account that most of the characters are no longer co-operating with it, choose where in the plot you'll start, how you'll reveal all the back stories and plot the first chapter and final denouement in great detail. Then design the cover.
-take up origami. In one of my jobs, whenever I had to make a note to myself to remember something, I wrote it on an origami crane. In another, I made about 250 3D stars.
-Plan other, random, things. If you had one day to live, what would you do with it? Write down what you'd do in sequential order, and then score each activity in order of imporance. Do the same for 1 week, 1 month and 3 months. Plan a holiday in Bermuda. Plan a holiday in the Antartic. If you were a really huge business sucess (think Bill Gates) would you be gracious to all the people you didn't like in highschool, or would you rub their snotty little noses in it? Plan your choice in detail, tailoring suitable conversations with each person you remember disliking.
-take the opportunity to learn how everything in the office works, to look at all the software works, read all the files that are even vaguely interesting and ask all your co-workers about their childhood. Bring in home-made muffins and bask in the praise. Start a lotto syndicate.
-if you were, completely hypothetically, to take a life of crime, what kind of crime would you do? White-collar? Gangsta? Thief? Chose a criminal profession and plan your first 4 heists (don't forget the get-aways and laundering your ill-gotten gains). Decide what evidence/action would be your downfall and whether the detective that catches you will be attractive or sinister.
If all else fails, or your bosses fail to fall for the "scrap paper" argument, plan how to spend the extra money you're bringing in :-)
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Ok, well I definately have some ideas now.
That's great silver, you must have had some real time wasting jobs before.
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