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Some people know that the job they currently have isn’t right for them. Some choose to do something about it, and some don’t. This article encourages those who don’t do anything (and not only them) to actually do something.

Other people think they have a good job, but when they get bored, they come up with a lot of reasons for it. They can get quite inventive, but most of the time they are wrong.

Some of the common reasons they come up with are:

• Work isn’t “challenging” enough

  So, if you had more challenging tasks, you’d start working on them immediately, right? OK, make an effort to finish your work for the day. A tip to do this when you don’t feel like working: work in bursts and don’t overdo it. Set a 10 minutes timer and work for 10 minutes, trying to progress as much as possible and get it done. Take a short break, rinse and repeat. If it’s not working, tough luck, you probably still have to do the work before going to the next step, which is: go to your manager and ask for a more challenging task. Chances are, he’ll have something for you, and chances are, you’ll get bored of that task sooner or later too. And you’ll get bored of asking for more challenging work as well. If that’s not the case (highly unlikely though), good for you: you switched from a boring job to one that’s not boring .

• Too much routine

  Some say you need to automate the tasks to decrease the routine, which supposedly removes the boredom. Yeah, right! Let’s say you have to create an Excel report for your manager at the end of the day with the sales figures. It takes you one hour to gather the data from various systems and produce the report. You perceive this routine as being the cause of your boredom and your reluctance to work. So one day your friend in the IT department writes a small program for you that queries the databases and does other technical stuff, then generates the report, all in 10 seconds at the press of a button. You’re so happy! But after two or three days, you find that you’re still bored at work, and you still don’t like your job, even if the routine is gone now. Even if all routine was automated, you’d still be bored because routine is not the real cause.

There are other reasons people might find to justify boredom / reluctance to work, like “there’s too little communication in my team / company”, “I don’t like my colleague / my colleague doesn’t like me”, etc.

Most of the times these are just pretexts that our mind fabricates. Think about it: why are you really bored at work? Would you rather be doing something else? What is that? Most times, the answer is that yes, you’d rather be doing something else, something you’re passionate about. Your real passion could be photography, gadgets, writing, sports, even watching TV shows . The key to not being bored at work is to work on something you’re passionate about. It may take a while to find ways to actually turn that passion into money, but anything is possible, if you put in the hours.

I didn’t write up “watching TV shows” in the previous paragraph for nothing. Unlikely as it may sound to some people, I just saw a job ad that dailypixel is hiring TV show bloggers. This ad was on ProBlogger job board and it’s something like this (quoting here since the link will be gone in some days):

We are on the hunt for bloggers who are avid watchers and followers of popular primetime TV shows like CSI, 24, Heroes, Lost, Idol, Grey’s Anatomy and more.

We are looking for bloggers who can blog about show news, news about the cast members, and also episode recaps, insider info etc.

If you want to blog about your favorite TV show, please get in touch with us. Please state what show(s) you want to blog about.

* This is a paid blogger position. Inquire for details.

There are more opportunities out there than you might think. It takes some time, and it takes some work, but it’s definitely worth the effort. You must find the right job for you and do that job with passion. It’s the job where you don’t count the days until the weekend, where you don’t dread Monday mornings, where work is something you actually look forward to.

Stop wasting time in a job you find boring, and start thinking of ways to make a living doing something you’re passionate about.