This is dissatisfying, given that I am somewhat of a perfectionist and take pleasure in doing things right. I feel that I almost everything I do is just enough to get by. I rarely have the time to do something that I feel is a good job.
Workload too high to allow for self-improvement and creativity. Some of the ideas that I think might be the root cause of this predicament: I’ve analyzed this a lot in the past few years to try to understand what the issue might be. I would expect that such an organization that is often considered a leader in business and technology would have more intellectual stimulation for its employees. This seems to be very contradicting to me. Although the work load might have been less, there seemed to much more room for innovation, creativity and free thinking. Interestingly, when I was NOT working for such a prestigious organization I was not as bored. The intellectual challenges that I face during work are few and far between. And have been for most of the past 4 years that I have been working for this company. So now that we have that out of the way, I can say what I really want to say … I’m bored.Īlthough I’m considered a well paid professional working for one of the most respected high-tech company in the US, and in a consulting/ “knowledge worker” position, I feel really bored with work. I think the simplest definition I would use of boredom within work-life is: The lack of intellectual challenge. With the exception of one person that I’ve discussed this with, almost everybody has this misconception, and start to solve my problem by telling me to what to do with my “spare time.” … annoying, huh? Unfortunately, being bored with worked in my current cultural environment also means not having anything to do at work. Looking at dictionary definitions, I think an interesting description of seen is that on Wikipedia: “an unpleasant, transient affective state in which the individual feels a pervasive lack of interest in and difficulty concentrating on the current activity.” (as defined by C. … Maybe that is not such a great analogy, but you get my point. To use a computer analogy, its like when you look at your computer’s CPU utilization and it says CPU 99% idle, even though you might have tons of applications open and the I/O might be very busing because you are sending files. 
Boredom in my opinion, is about the mind not having anything challenging to do. In fact, I think boredom has very little to do with time at all.
I want to write about what I see as a common misconception.
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