Pointless office jobs

Those organisations are also full of bullshit jobs e.g. you can work for a charity or whatever but your particular job is pointless.

Friggin' hell ! 80 grand for working in an office ?! Work backwards from that statement and you will find all the answers to the worlds problems !! 😊 I get what you say though...working anywhere just passing paperwork on to the next person to shuffle it and to pass it on to the next employee...it doesn't actually move the human race forward does it ?

What? The majority of jobs where people sit at a desk are pointless?
That's a ludicrous statement.

LOL, I realised this about 20 years ago. At which point I have apent my time makung sure I get maximum money for minimum work.

I could not give a fuck about whatevwr nonsense they are cooking up at work each day. But I can talk the talk and I expend no emotional energy at all.

Has worked for me verybwell. I make a shitload of money, have zero stress and use said money to enjoy myself.

"Lean in" OP. 😆

FFS, IN MY OPINION, MAYBE the majority. So I can't have an opinion now?

I'm getting really pissed off with MN tonight.

Shall I hand my notice in then? Will that improve pay and conditions for others? No, of course it won’t!

Stop bloody moaning.

Kurt Vonnegut put it in a nutshell " we are here on this earth to fart around and don't let anyone tell you different" Once you realise this , everything is temporary, life, pain, riches, poverty ...it'll give the impetous just to crack on and do what YOU want ...?!

This doesn’t surprise me at all, AI is making many people’s lives hell at work and has been sold to businesses with lots of false promises

My friend works doing planning for trains. She earns 70 grand. I nearly fell off my chair when she told me. She said she spends most of the day on her phone and trying to think of things to do. She doesn’t have to work evenings or weekends or take work home with her.
So office jobs like that do exist.
My job is intense and stressful but sometimes when driving in I think at least I’m not working down a coal mine or a bus driver. (This is not me looking down my nose at these jobs it’s me knowing I would have a panic attack if I had to do either of those jobs.) There is no way I am capable of driving a bus! I struggle with a mini.
So I think a lot of people find their jobs pointless/ rubbish but if you are earning 80 grand you are doing better than most.

The most i have ever earned has been around £37k and I had to work like a dog for it, balance huge budgets, write a local strategy that would be implemented across 4 statutory organisations that worked in partenership to provide different aspects of essential services and make sure that the local strategy incoporated national health targets. I certainly wasn't bored but i was exhausted and stressed I can't even begin to imagine the life i could have on £80k it is a fantasy world that i will never know .

If you're writing strategies for 37K you're being mugged off.

You’re not going to be in the same role for 30 years!! Promotions, retraining, doing fewer days as DC grows up and DP becomes freer.

When I was in a dead end call center job I made them let me take a Friday off if I worked every Saturday (we were meant to do 1 in 4), so I could spend my Friday retraining. It worked!

Oh wow, that would be like some surreal dystopian theatre

@Probablygreen - I know what you mean. I used to have to go to industry events in the area I worked - and oh my, they sent me into a downwards spiral of existential angst. (Though to be fair, I do think my job had some meaning )

I felt like this, but didn't want to give up my well paid and super-flexible job. I trained to do a charity role (which wasn't badly paid but hours were limited) and I did various versions of that role for one day a week for the last 15 years of my working life. It was helping people directly and I felt useful and fulfilled - it made all the difference to me. Maybe you could start doing some stuff to work towards making changes - voluntary work, careers advisory appointment, looking at courses etc. Doesn't have to be all or nothing straight away.

Do a community volunteer role as well. I also have a boring office job, unlike you though I earn 29.k . On Wednesdays I run a food share at a local church. It's the highlight of my week.
Weekends I run a sports club.
The volunteering makes up for the job that has no meaning. I also am a local Councillor znc plan to leave my job and do politics full-time,
Give yourself a 5 year plan.
Life can be fulfilling, you sound unfulfilled and your dh needs to step up.

It’s not 30 more years of this though. The company will change, they’ll be restructures takeovers and redundancies. No one is immune from redundancy. Don’t get complacent!

I found meaning in my corporate role by looking out for the people around me. I could leave most days knowing I‘d brightened someone’s day in a small or a more significant way. The work itself was mostly frustrating.

If your role is really unnecessary then I’d be upskilling so when they realise you are still in a position to get a decent job - especially is you are the bread winner! Can you do further study? Could you cross train and move to another area?

It's hardly an admin role at an 80k salary.

I sympathise OP. But then I'm due to retire at the age of 57 in 3 weeks. 38 years in the same industry does make it difficult to carry on giving a shit.

I understand: humans need purpose. Many people get this from their jobs but many others don’t. Many people work to pay the bills and find their purpose in volunteer work. Could you consider this? Your previous experience as a teacher would be a real asset as a school governor.

My job is pointless but I’m on peanuts. I do emphathise - it is soul-destroying not to feel like you have a purpose. I have so little to do it’s mind-numbing. I’ve haven’t been in this job for long. I left a role that was so hectic it gave me palpitations but I was needed. I don’t think I can stick this job because my sense of worth is on the floor. It’s all very well people telling you to suck it up for the money and find a purpose outside of work, but you spend a large part of your life at your desk. I’m older and I feel like I’m watching my life tick away while I pretend to be productive. There’s no point asking for more work as my colleagues clearly also have little to do but are more adept at pretending they are doing something important.

Retrain into something you find more interesting but that also pays well then.

I know what you mean. I have a similar pointless job but it pays well and is low stress and every time I look at more interesting jobs I come to the conclusion that it’s more work for less money so I stay where I am! I’ve made peace with it, I have a good work life balance and a healthy bank balance so could be in a far worse position, In about 4 years I will be able to go part time and have more time doing the things I want to do. Right now I focus on enjoying weekends and holidays that I am lucky enough to be able to afford.