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Re:The damaging effects of 'boreout' at work by Spivak on Sunday July 11, 2021 @01:16AM (#27798628)
I’m so sorry that it got so bad for you. I recently quit my job because I was in that situation. I literally had nothing to do. I had maybe 8 hours of actual work a week. Paid really well to do basically nothing all things considered but it drained my soul. Being at home made it more tolerable but after cooking, baking, reading, side projects, getting my side hustle off the ground, exercising, starting an herb garden, taking up sketching, finishing my entertainment backlog, I don’t even know anymore I just couldn’t do it.

There’s something so terribly draining about having so much “kinda free time” where I might have to do random tasks sporadically but is otherwise completely empty.

Re:The damaging effects of 'boreout' at work by tdfx on Sunday July 11, 2021 @03:01AM (#27798960)
It sounds like a joke but: if they company was paying you and giving you good performance reviews, your effort was obviously meeting expectations. Why didn't you get an additional full-time job?
Re:The damaging effects of 'boreout' at work by bruce343434 on Sunday July 11, 2021 @05:29AM (#27799528)
Because the time is not truly free? It would only take one agenda collision to foil everything.
Re:The damaging effects of 'boreout' at work by SkyPuncher on Sunday July 11, 2021 @01:24PM (#27802789)
I've worked remotely for a long time. I've always had this dream of pushing through my work early in the week so I can fit in a round of golf or a few hours of skiing on a Friday morning. It's panned out less than 5 times because something always comes up on a Friday morning.