Boring Tech Jobs

My personal axiom: Boring/Uninteresing work leads to me working more on my personal/startup projects.Thus, I should be looking for a job that has nothing but boring work. :)

Yes, many jobs are working on projects one isn't interested in. It's a job one has to do ...However to me it seems you're trying to make it worse.What about trying to find a job in a field you are passionate about? Assuming you are an experienced software developer you should be able to analyse problems and solving problems. These are qualities not only in software.There's a large field of things one can do outside a job, which can be interesting. Be it with a NGO or

Exactly the same case for me too. At first it seems like it would be great, but it was wearing away at the passion I once had for my career. I now spend my days looking at cat videos and playing games rather than focussing on personal projects. I move jobs in 2 weeks to a harder job with better pay and can't wait.

I find it hardest to be passionate about my work when I'm doing mundane, uninteresting work. No job involves doing something interesting and challenging at all times. If I was 10x better at my job, it wouldn't improve how I felt about doing mundane work. In fact, I might detest it more because I would feel like my time could be spent doing higher-level work.

Most jobs - especially in software - produce very little or no value.There are a couple things you can do:- Accept it, do as little work as you can get away with, and find fulfillment outside your job. Maybe get a stand-up desk and do some light exercise while working, to ease the feeling of wasting your time.- Find a useful job. Non-profits, government services, and research organizations are good places to look, but there are lots of private sector jobs that produce useful thi

Yeah, I basically had those things but was very bored by my job, especially after starting working from home. Luckily I managed to find a job where I still have those things but within a domain which is more interesting to me. So the answer could be: Switch industry/company.

Your work doesn't seem to have a purpose for you, apart from just paying the bills/surviving. It would help to find a new motivation. For me, it was improveing my coding skills to get better paying jobs, so that I can save a lot of money and eventually be financially free (live off savings instead of salary). This motivated me for the last 10 years of my career. Without this goal, I might have burned out and end up in a bad place.

> one day I'd be able to leverage that skill to advance my economic position. And so I did. I'm good at it. I don't have any specific complaints about my job or my team.Don't think that this job is the same as any other job you could be doing. Try some other ones. It took me a while to get around to working at small startups, then a large company that runs smoothly with minimal BS, etc.I suspect that a significant amount of your day energy is lost to the perception t

Sorry to sound negative, but welcome to the real world. The vast majority of people are doing jobs they really do not want to do. Imagine what it feels like to be work on a production line for a 12 hour shift in China. Or getting up everyday to pack the shelves at Walmart. At some point in the next 40 years of your working life you will have times when your are doing something you don't enjoy, or that causes you stress or where you suffer from burn out. Don't panic, as this is normal.

I don't get this attitude at all... Find a business domain that excites you, find a company in that domain whose culture suits you, work hard to build skills that help you do your job well and give you personal satisfaction, and then look for opportunities to expand your role and increase the impact you have at work. Then your job won't feel like work...If the job you currently do can't deliver this, then find something else.(Plus, of course, what everyone else says about f