Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Hard at work or hardly working?

["New game for civil servants:
the first one to move loses]

Since I've started working at my new job in february, my workload has been rather uneven. Some days I'm swamped and working on so many different projects my head starts to spin (full 360 degrees, Exorcist-style), and some days I'm so starved for useful tasks and projects that I start abusing the work facilites for less, shall we say productive, pastimes? Examples:
  • writing useless blogposts (much like the one you're reading)
  • checking my email and/or Facebook every 10 minutes
  • brushing up on my non-existing knowledge of Tibet on wikipedia (might be an upcoming blogpost btw!)
  • googling origami folding procedures, then folding the said origami figure (I started out easy with a "sampan")
  • continuing my long-going project to learn Spanish via song lyrics only (currently printed out a spanish/english version of Shakira's "La Tortura")
  • booking tickets to cinemas (Morgan Pålsson), concerts (Where the Action is, festival featuring Foo Fighters among others), theatre (Mästaren och Margarita)
  • managing my parents' finances and day-to-day menial administrative tasks
  • selecting new pictures from my travels in South-East Asia for my wallpaper background

Who said work doesn't allow you to evolve? ;)

[feel free to post your comments! what useless things do you do in office down-times?]

6 comments:

Victor Marcel Mangematin said...

Well... That about sums it up... I used to spend my "low on work days" working on biotider... But since that time has passed now, I usually.....spend waay too much money on ebay, webhallen and tradera. Throw in a couple of facebook and forum visits to spelradion.se and i'm done!

Work = Money
Work + Not Working = No money left at all

Omar El M. said...

The problem with money is usually that you either have the time to spend it but not enough of it; or you are earning enough but don't have time to spend it!

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