Thursday, June 5, 2008

Office Jobs: Great Job? or mental torture?

The desk job jungle is certainly taking it tole on unsuspecting free spirited workers and blue collar spoiled brats alike. All of us, young, old and middle aged, are trapped behind the desk in front of a computer every day, without a damn hint of change in the menotony. As I sit in my own personal hell in office, I found a breif on the mediavangelistic question I asked myself a few weeks ago. Well, for those of us who spend a large amount of time behind a desk surrounded by four entrapping walls.

We, as a general consensus of deskies, are a group of people who can get around our office's computer system, get around the firewalls to watch or look at mostly anything, we know how to make our systems move faster, adjust printers, and hell, we learn how to do a lot of other things and stay heavily informed on all of what's going on in the outside, because let's face it, we're not exactly in it. Is this why we're so bored? Is this why there are businessmen jumping off of buildings because they can't take the heat...is an office job actually a form of intellectual kinetic defeat?

We're so bored, driven to a point of general madness, that we pick up hobbies and interests that didn't seem appealing when the job first started. I've begun writing more often than not. Watching political news like a hawk. Grown adults playing volleyball in the late afternoon for lack of a better idea has become something we do on a regular basis around my office, and truly, there's nothing better than almost breaking everything in the office because we've gone mad! It's lack of kinetic endorphins. We're not moving. Everyone in this office has a gym membership, because 5AM is the only time of day anyone has time to move. I personally, find that the slightest bit disturbing.

There's some cons in my personals...but the pros are there too! It's a great gig doing diddly squat a beautiful amount of the time. The pay doesn't suck...At the end of the day, you've helped some people with a necessity that we can't live without. I work for the company listed 32 on the fortune 500 list. That beats flipping burgers I guess. But I can't help but wonder how so many, like me have ended up working a day to day, that could just give me a headache. Coffee, news, work, lunch, news/soda, snacks, work. That's a routine right there my friends.

Unless you suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder you will become drunk with the feeling of being able to run on autopilot. And then start to float through every day missing some of the important things you may have easily missed, you quit living life, and end up bored all the time without ever adding flavor. The flavor in my case is people. Every person I talk to at my job on a daily basis adds a new color to my perspective. I like that. I also like my job in the sense that I see every walk of life. It's a matter of success in business mixed with the people who need are service.

At the end of the day, it's how you deal with current situation that takes you to success or failure, I find myself bored out of my mind but it leaves me a lot of time to thinks and better myself as a thinker, a writer, and overall as a person. So, yes, indeed boredom can take control of your daily life, but to embrace what your doing stops the crazy hysteria of an every day desk job. That's, as we say, the bottom line.