Bored

Today I was so bored at work I joined Twitter. Well, I joined Twitter for all of 20 minutes. I started to follow a few friends that I knew had Twitter accounts, then Jillian Michaels and Bob Harper (for free workout advice obviously) and Kathy Griffin and Chelsea Handler (because they are hilarious). And then I actually went to my “page” and read their tweets. Wait why was I signing up for this again? For annoyingly abbreviated words that do not help the spelling crisis we have in our kids?

So yeah, 20 minutes later I deactivated my account. No thanks. I’ll stick with blogs and Facebook.

But what was really behind joining Twitter was the fact that I am bored at work. I know that shocks you- these days companies are “doing more with less.” Everyone is overworked and understaffed. But yet I am bored. Sitting here wasting my day. Trying to find things to do while my boss is around (and asking her for things to do), reading blogs and commenting when she is not. It is awful. I feel horrible that I am getting paid a salary to do this. I was busy one day this week- Monday. The rest of the week? Bored out of my skull.

Unfortunately with this house purchase, I basically have one other option in terms of a job. I am currently working my resume and cover letter to be able to apply, but I am not banking on getting the job. The problems that I had earlier this year will probably come up again. The problem is- even if a similar job became available later this year, it’s going to be even harder to move when I can’t put anything down on my resume- you know, because I am not doing anything at work!

There are reasons that I can’t get into as to why I need to stay in this industry for at least another year. Even if I wanted to move to private law practice I don’t have a CT license so I would have to take the bar (never again!). If I try to change industries I have no idea if my salary would stay close to what I am currently making- which is a problem now that are a buying a house and trying for a baby.

Yeah. So I am probably stuck at this job for a while. Which makes me want to bawl my eyes out, while scratching them out at the same time. Happy f*ing Friday!


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