I've been feeling bored at work many times in recent weeks. I wonder, though, if it's really boredom that I'm experiencing, or something else. I seem to have plenty of things that I need to do, but most of these tasks I have no desire whatsoever to accomplish. Things like...
- contacting my auto finance company to settle a dispute I've been trying to settle with them for nearly a year;
- contacting my wife's health insurance company to inquire as to why they debited my account two weeks before I expected them to;
- shipping some books back to my book club for credit;
- organizing the cluster-fuck that is my desk;
- et cetera.
I also have plenty of things that I want to do as well. These are in much more abundance and have a much wider range of importance and urgency. As varied as...
- taking some required paperwork to the financial aid office at the college I'll be attending;
- continuing in the current book I'm reading;
- studing the Arab-Israeli conflict;
- writing letters about many issues to send to government officials;
- editing and updating Wikipedia articles;
- packing and mailing some film to Snapfish;
- et cetera.
So I've come to this question: if I'm feeling bored, am I boring, or just unorganized?
I don't have a problem taking care of tasks associated with my job. I usually take care of those things immediately. Business, however, hasn't been as fast as it used to be, so there is a lot of down time.
I don't mind the down time, but it has to be organized. I have to find a way, a method, to organizing and prioritizing the tasks I need to accomplish.
I found a great quote from The Quotations Page, attributed to Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), which says, "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
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