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 job boredom 
 Howard, on host 65.3.108.185
  Thursday, June 3, 2004, at 06:49:52
Since I have no job, job boredom is not a problem anymore.  But at one point in my life I worked in a factory making vacuum bottles, aka  Thermos bottles.  
  I ran the machine that welded little glass tubes to the end of the bottle, so that in a later step, the air could be vacuumed from between the double glass walls.  The problem was that I was standing in an area where the temperature was over 100 degrees F and I was repeating the same movements every six seconds.  Ten times a minute, I would take a bottle off the line and put it on the machine.  Then I would take another bottle off the machine and put it one the line. Repeat, repeat, repeat, 4FRNFR.
  But I wasn't really there.  My mind would wander thousands of miles.  I would think about places I had been and places I wanted to go.  I would go over past and future conversations in my head, and creat plots for stories I planned to write someday.  I would think of funny things that happened recently, or sometimes a long time ago. I worked an 8 hour shift with a lunch break in the middle and a ten-minute coffe break ever two hours. The noise level was too high for any real conversation and there usually wasn't anybody close enough to talk to anyway.  
  I was there for seven months between the Army and the beginning of my first year of teaching.  It made teaching seem like a dream job. I never suffered from job boredom after that.  Not even when I took summer jobs like painting classrooms or working in another factory.
  So I would suggest that if a computer job is boring, you should put something job related on your screen and let your mind wander.  Works for me. Howard 
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