How do you get through your work day?

[Hibbo]

Do you have a job that you don't particularly enjoy but still go to pay the bills? What tricks do you use to get through your work day so you don't get depressed.

 

[Benicetoourboys]

Do you have a job that you don't particularly enjoy but still go to pay the bills? What tricks do you use to get through your work day so you don't get depressed.

I often work with my best friend (since we were little at school), we often don't have much to do so we're always laughing! Its fab.

 

[Littlesue]

I have 15 jobs and the longest is 2 hours. most of my clients are older than me and rely on me to look after them so it keeps me happy if I have left them with a smile on their face. The worst part of the job is the physical aspect as my knees and shoulders are wrecked so my misery is physical, only 11 months and 7 days till retirement though.

 

[The Binman]

I hate my job, mostly because of the people i work for. I work in the desert. I generally find people avoidance helps. Most work places are run by psychopaths, who love nothing more than but make your ilfe a misery.

So yeah, avoid people, and enjoy nice coffee.

 

[tommye]

Love my job.
Work for good people and enjoy what I do.
Had jobs which paid a lot more but I hated working there so binned it off as, to me, being happy in my everyday life is far more important than being wealthy.

 

[chrismpw]

Before I retired/gave up the ghost with teaching.....

Coffee ... lots ... then a bit more.
Avoid adults as long as possible into the day
Avoid kids as long as possible
Do some planning, check equipment for the day,
Teach ... remember that I enjoyed that bit - especially the bit where they recoil from coffee breath.
Eat lunch, drink tea, do some planning / marking / equipment ordering*
Do some bollocking on behalf of others
Teach again
Drink tea
More bollockings/detentions for others / clear up blood stains.
Planning / marking / exam entries or worse: get through pointless boring meetings by imagining some diy I could do later, or thinking how i could repair some of the lab kit, while quietly glaring at the woman who always chirps up with some vendetta she has about some kids during "any other business," in the hope that she won't.

Now.....
Watch you tube / scoff breakfast / drink 2 pints of tea
Fiddle in the shed/car/maintain the house
Enjoy a coffee. Think about lunch. Make coffee break last until lunch.
Eat lunch
Listen to the hifi / now the lawn / clear out belly fluff.

Would recommend

*in the days before the tories were elected
Look busy for when the missus comes home from work. ALWAYS look busy.

.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Podcasts
YouTube
And slapping my baloney


Mainly Bourdain on loop though

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Music helps me through the working day. Listen to all sorts. Indie, house, jazz, soul.

Oh and coffee also helps

 

[Bedfordblue]

 

[tommye]

Music helps me through the working day. Listen to all sorts. Indie, house, jazz, soul.

This.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Do you have a job that you don't particularly enjoy but still go to pay the bills? What tricks do you use to get through your work day so you don't get depressed.

I grot my teeth and take anti-depressants.

Its not a good advert for the place!

 

[Kurt.]

I sit in my office, spread some important looking papers over my desk, spend the next 7 hours intermittently picking each of them up and staring blankly at them for a few minutes before placing them back on my desk in a different arrangement, I do this for 7 hours and then it’s time to go home.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Having a laugh, not piss talking, always helped,when I worked.
When buying newspapers was a thing, doing the crosswords always killed time,but the advent of Google on phones killed that.
It's probably more difficult to have a laugh because most penny pinching has took staffing levels to a minimum were your time is limited to even go the toilet.

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

Thinking of you Hibbo.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

I sit in my office, spread some important looking papers over my desk, spend the next 7 hours intermittently picking each of them up and staring blankly at them for a few minutes before placing them back on my desk in a different arrangement, I do this for 7 hours and then it’s time to go home.

Putting a pen behind your ear is a good way of looking busy.

I've used this one for years.