Boredom at work as reason of stress«The job. How can you complain about not having enough to do? It seems too stupid for words. But that's what it is. Just plain bored. Sounds silly. Instead of just sitting and doing nothing, I get irritable. Irritable with myself. Irritable with the people around me. Irritable with a society that lands me in a job like this. Worse than all that, I bring the irritability home with me to my wife and kids. Snap at them. Then I feel guilty. Then more on edge than ever. » They laugh about the civil service. Joke about it. But there is often that glimmer of truth in the things we laugh about most readily. Man. As a species we have survived. We have survived because we have learned to assert ourselves against an inhospitable environment. If we graduate into a changed environment of continuing calm and ease, we are left without the normal challenges of life to which we have become accustomed over countless generations. It demands that we adjust to a new way of living in which our innate assertiveness has no external outlet. We seem to be lost. Our brain is alerted, but there is no outlet for mental or physical activity. And we experience this deprivation as boredom. Other interests and hobbies are a help. Not much to do at work and our mind can run on enjoying the challenge of our hobby. The same applies when our work is mainly repetitive, requiring little mental effort on our part. *6/98/5* ANTI-DEPRESSANTS «Prescription Medications» |
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