No praise for idleness

Recession has taken its toll and budgets have been freezed, salaries cut, people fired. But the worst impact for me has been that new development in our product has been freezed, thereby shunning us to doing boring maintenance work.

A week of doing that and I am already fed up of it. So much so, that I have to drag myself to work and run back at 5 PM sharp. And even though I don't do much work, just sitting idle drains so much energy that you don't want to do anything else than surf the web/watch TV. On the contrary, working very hard seems to energize people as long as it is interesting.

I can now clearly imagine the lives of govt. employees who don't have any stimulating work which makes them unproductive. They are unproductive not because they can't do it. They are, because they don't like doing it.

An idle mind is truly a devil's workshop. Its also probably why there is so much corruption and politics in the management. :)

I am turning out to be more and more 'strategically incompetent' too with the work I don't like to do. You can tolerate 10% boring stuff when 90% is OK but when it is the reverse, it really gets you.

I really hope I get fired in the coming days so that I will be forced to do something new.

The most important job skill

... is not the skill that make you good at work. It is career skills.

1. How to negotiate better salaries/raises

2. Knowing when to jump companies

3. Knowing how to be at the right place at the right time

4. How to suck up to your boss

5. Doing well in job interviews

6. Knowing how to take advantage of the system

7. Knowing a lot of jargons