tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249479.post8629321693113937685..comments2024-03-11T07:17:35.570-05:00Comments on Art, Love, & Action Figures: New job....same old crap.ArtistJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17095007505967161965noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249479.post-42677629072508290192010-07-22T10:32:38.357-05:002010-07-22T10:32:38.357-05:00If you're not where you intend to be for any l...If you're not where you intend to be for any length of time, you owe it to yourself to talk to your boss about what you can do to get to a better place. It's a good manager's responsibility to help grow their employees to succeed. If you have any idea where you DO want to be, go talk to those people, too. Make your intentions known and ask what you need to do to get there. It's your responsibility to get you to where you want to be - no one else is going to magically put you there.<br /><br />I maintain a philosophy that I work to live and not the other way around. What I do is a means to support what I enjoy doing. This helps me, but might not be your cup of tea.<br /><br />While you're stuck where you are, have you considered bringing a little bit of "you" into the crap tasks? There's gotta be a color theme you can adopt for excel that will at least help take your mind off the menial (Yoda green balanced with Dune Sea sand? And yes - I totally wikipedia-ed that). What if you think of excel as being akin to creating the death star (which was probably also created systematically)? Or go all out and do your data entry while painting with your feet under your desk? Not THAT would be some fun multi-tasking!Christyhttp://assistedprocrastination.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249479.post-27399037758387816822010-07-21T13:20:05.384-05:002010-07-21T13:20:05.384-05:00Jobs like that are always going to be unsatisfying...Jobs like that are always going to be unsatisfying because it's still mindless factory work.Chrishttp://numskullery.comnoreply@blogger.com