Anyone working a job that has them bored to tears?

[Irving]

I'm really, really tired of being under employed and not being able to find a job that suits me better. At my current job, I just read between calls and have already read like 10-12 books this year. Helps keep my mind off how I'm making the same amount of money as I did when I was 16.

[glock21]

Security guard at a Bingo hall?

I'll tell you what, seniors can get fiesty when someone yells a false bingo.

[Gunner]

I like mine great bennifits. But when you get paid on commission it sucks when its slow. At least I got an hourly. But sometime I wanna let loose on some people who always feel the need to complain about everything.

[Pancho Villa]

I'm a used furniture dealer.

I'll go to moving sales and the like, make a low-ball offer, get blown off and drop off my card. Sunday afternoon I get a phone call because everyone always seems to think their (very nice, very well taken care of) furniture will sell for a few hundred dollars.

I have a storage space and a truck, so I deliver free of charge to my customers. I get a lot of lower-income folks who don't have a truck and can't afford to go to the big chain stores, but also need new furniture.

Its actually a pretty interesting job. I'm in the middle of writing the 'employee manual' right now, ideally by next year I'd like to be hiring some people to do this here so I can do the same job elsewhere (Co Springs or, if that place is too small to expand to, Dallas.) Rinse and repeat until there's enough cashflow to do what I want (I'd really like to start a cattle ranch some day, but I have a ton of research to do so to say that its on the backburning would be the king of understatement.)

Sometimes it can be boring, but I have plenty of music, podcasts and radio shows to listen to on the longer drives.

Best deal so far: $15 fridge I sold for $200 two days later.

[68Charger]

I'm a used furniture dealer.

That was Al Capone's business that he had on "the books"

my wife's family has done that kind of thing, but as an auction house.

The actual work I get paid to do is good, it's all the bureaucracy and paperwork that is a sleep aid.

[BlasterBob]

My job is to sit under a shade tree, have a few beers and watch the wildlife.
It's a damn tough job but the beer prevents it from being really boring
Yeah, I've been retired for just about 20 years. Youse guys play your cards right and you too will enjoy the retired life one of these days. Start saving NOW!!

[BPTactical]

Total, absolute mind numbing drain bamage, brain dead lobotomy inducing job here.
After spending 18 years in the field doing anything from patching potholes, repairing fence and guardrail, repairing sprinklers, plowing snow, supervising crews, answering emergency issues with a near intensity of a firefight and basically anything else you can imagine that may be incurred in the job title of "Highway Maintenance".

I slipped on some tree limbs we had trimmed and landed flat on my keester and could hardly walk-collapsed 3 discs in my lower back. 6 months of PT and I end up with a permanent weight restriction, enough where I was unable to meet the physical requirements to go back to the field.

My reward? Being stuck behind a desk now, entering data from worksheets for the guys that maintain the traffic signals. Same data everyday, same PITA software system (SAP).
Lost just shy of 1K per month in salary.

But it could be much worse-at least I have a job. 2 years left and I can retire.

[Big Wall]

Is it just within the Denver Metro-Area?

Basically yes. We go out to Ft. Morgan, up to Cheyenne and down to Pueblo some.

[Big Wall]

I'm really, really tired of being under employed and not being able to find a job that suits me better. At my current job, I just read between calls and have already read like 10-12 books this year. Helps keep my mind off how I'm making the same amount of money as I did when I was 16.

Unfortunately I know exactly what you mean.

[rondog]

I work in telecom, basically a fiber optic tech. I don't do splicing and cables, my world starts where the fiber cable is terminated into the splicing panels. I'm on call 24/7/365, and my territory runs approx. 300 miles east, west and south of Denver.

There's the fiber cables in the ground running all over the world, and then there's the electronic equipment that's connected to those fibers, that's MY world. I maintain that equipment at 15 remote sites from Grand Junction to Norton, KS, and down to Raton, NM. Plus all the fiber optic circuits at our main switch site in Denver, which is a huge job in itself.

Primarily huge transport circuits for data and voice, from 45mbps up into several terabytes of bandwith. Thank God I don't have to operate that equipment, I just replace components and install/disconnect circuits. Basically, I'm a pothole filler on the Information Superhighway. Worst part is a large amount of my work has to be done after midnight, regardless of where I have to go. So I get to drive in lots of nighttime snowstorms. Yay.