At the beginning of this year, I heard a lot of people around me complain about their boring job. I realize the same with my job by hearing them. In the first quarterly, our division in job is usually in the low season. We tend to work on some routine and unfinished stuff from the previous year. This year is, even more, relaxing than usual, because there is a change of the head of the division, and there is a lot of euphoria about that. I felt boring as well, I even didn’t realize I lost some excitement. My senior agree with me. In the more extreme response, she discussed the plan for resignations — no, she was just babbling.
My friend who works as an engineer also told me the same thing. He told me that his job is so boring, he works on the same routine every day. Calculating some engineering things in their application for their planned project, doing the report, and so on. Overall, their job is just calculating those engineering things and the like. If unexpected things happened, other divisions will work on it, and so on.
At this point, I thought that working in the legal field might have a bit more excitement because the object of our job is society — ubi ius ibi societas. Since society is so unpredictable and dynamic, we face and rack our brains to mitigate any unexpected cases that arise from the contract/regulation and the like we drafted. Furthermore, we rack one’s brains to solve unexpected problems that disrupt our business and/or system. Every case might give us a different excitement. In fact, at a certain time, we still lose this excitement.
Since working in the law firm is a dynamic, fast phase, and it might give more various excitement, when I went out with my law graduated friends, I asked a friend who’s working in the law firm. I asked whether he ever felt boring while working in the law firm, especially because he works in the litigation division. Surprisingly, that friend also feels the same. “There’s a time when I am extremely bored to look at the contract draft, visiting the court, waiting for the police, investigating people for some evidence, and the like. I know what I need to do, but I am just bored to do and repeat that. Even if it’s for a different case.”
My friend’s statement woke my asleep excitement. It flew me to the fact of this age, that our job is not our life, it’s just a part of our life. Well, some people might consider it as their whole life because they still need others’ free time to finish all their business, yet this is not that case.
The fact that our job is only a part of our life. We cannot force our excitement only to come from our nine to five job. It’s not fair though. If we feel boring, it’s not entirely the fault of our jobs. It’s only we just feel dry as dust with our life and our entire routine.
For instance, that engineer friend does some singing cover stuff on his social media. He builds up his excitement from his hobby. Doing the things on the internet by romanticizing his hobbies and putting on the internet. Another friend loves baking. On the weekend she bakes several kinds of cake, put them on the internet, and sells the cake. These friends get praise and/or another profit from it. Unconsciously, those praise becomes another appreciation that builds up another excitement for them in their daily — besides the boring job.
And me? having fun with my friends, listening to their stories, romanticizing, and posting them on the internet.
Boring is only the phase of our way to look at something. Not entirely about a certain thing or even our life — life is a long way run. We just need to be more creative to knit our routine — if nothing is going right, let’s go to the left — when we’re getting bored with a certain pattern in our daily.
Good luck!
