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How to handle boredom

travelr712 posted on Apr 21, 2008 | views: 176 | Tags: boredom
I'm sitting in my Monday night class. It's called 'project management'. I am totally stone bored out of my mind!
 
The instructor is soft spoken and monitone, and he spends most of the class either talking about the copier install and repair company he works for, or reading the bullet points from the textbook. They could record him and sell the tapes as a natural alternative to sleeping pills!
 
I want to pull my eyeballs out and stretch them over the back of my head!
 
I HATE HATE HATE this subject! I will NEVER be a project manager! I CANNOT STAND to do paperwork, and that's all project management is. Take these people's forms and compile them into this form and hand it up the line. Figure out schedules and budgets. NOT me!
 
I'm getting an A in the class, because i show up and do the work, but it is so mind numbingly dull that i don't pay attention to most of it.
 
So what do I do to pass the time, you may ask?
 
I surf soulcast, of course! :-)


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  • wombat said on Apr 21, 2008....
    Passes a note to you about a party, makes fun of the instructor's pants, then blows a spit ball......hope we don't get caught goofing off in class......
  • travelr712 said on Apr 21, 2008....
    LOL wombie! nope, he's oblivious!
  • wombat said on Apr 21, 2008....
    Reminds me of that droning teacher on that show I can't remember,and the commercials that followed....all I remember is he hosted the short-lived game show that I liked.....I am clueless......must not have been paying attention in class.  Ha.
  • pickersplock said on Apr 21, 2008....
    It seems kind of silly that you have to take a class for that.
  • Lidiaxxx said on Apr 21, 2008....
    Stick a pin on his seat! That would make the class more interesting :D
  • travelr712 said on Apr 21, 2008....
    ben stein wombie. he was in ferris beuler's day off, and win ben stein's money, and the visine commercials. anyone? anyone? :-)
     
    THANK YOU PICKERS! that's exactly what i was saying to the instructor before i left class! i have no idea why a degree in internet security has to have a class in project management!
     
    lidia - that's a good idea, cept that he seems to stand and lean more than sit. it would be funny to see him move quick once tho!
  • Lady_Emma said on Apr 21, 2008....
    Do they allow alcohol in the class?
  • Lucytorial said on Apr 22, 2008....
    well its sillier still that you're paying through the nose as well!

    tee heheee
  • wombat said on Apr 22, 2008....
    Thanks...I couldn't think last night, and really didn't have it in me to try...ha....!
  • travelr712 said on Apr 22, 2008....
    as long as it's well hidden in a bottle of pepsi, lady
     
    you are certainly right about that lucy, i don't even want to think about how much money this is costing me!
     
    you're welcome wombie. thinking is not required after 10pm
  • diabolicdame said on Apr 22, 2008....
    Stone bored in class.. Hmmmnn.. sounds like the story of my life! If
    i know its a boring class I usually sit in the back and chit chat away with my friend. Or even sleep on my desk sometimes! lol..
  • Lady_Emma said on Apr 22, 2008....
    Then may I suggest, you indulge?
  • uniquely-ironic said on Apr 22, 2008....
    What a dry class.  I used to have a teacher like that for US history.  I'd always get to class early and sit in the back so that if I nodded off it wasn't obvious.
  • travelr712 said on Apr 22, 2008....
    dia - as did i when i was in highschool. but then, i got mostly D's, and i want A's this go round.
     
    lady - see above :-)
     
    unique - our classes are small, maybe 12 people, my napping would not go unnoticed.
  • uniquely-ironic said on Apr 22, 2008....
    wear dark sunglasses?
  • queenparanoia said on Apr 22, 2008....
    hahahaha the best way to fight boredom!! =)
  • diabolicdame said on Apr 22, 2008....
    I'm in college.. and I do all that and still get As.. Ok maybe B+ sometimes but still! hehehe.. If you're really nice to me I'll teach you the trick.  :-D
    Oh ok I just saw that our classes are made of like 12 people. Too bad man.. I can't help you there. Mine has about 60 so its a lot easier to go unnoticed. Unless you start snoring ofcourse!
  • destinydiva said on Apr 22, 2008....
    oohhh you tricked me with stone bored.....  i thought you meant stoned ;-)
    how are you stranger? xx
  • destinydiva said on Apr 22, 2008....
    lol unique!!  I almost dozed in a lecture last week!!  think it was down to a weekend of too much alchohol and not enough sleep tho rather than boredom :-) xx
  • travelr712 said on Apr 22, 2008....
    unique - and paint eyeballs on them. HE'LL NEVER KNOW! :-P
     
    qpdoll - ain't it tho?
     
    dia - this is my 4th try at college, and the first successful one. i think i know all the tricks, but thanks for the offer. :-)
     
    des - yeah, i'm sly that way. and i'm fine, thanks for asking.
  • diabolicdame said on Apr 23, 2008....
    Oh in that case maybe you should teach me some! I'd be really grateful.. I'm bored out of my mind here! lol.. Today again I was just this close to dozing off in class! We have college at 8 in the morning and I'm not a morning person! Every morning when my alarm goes off I wake up with a 'wtf!' Anyway just letting you know you're not alone! :-)
  • travelr712 said on Apr 23, 2008....
    i'm in that space of the quarter where i can't bring myself to do homework! it happens right around the middle of the quarter, i start to get burned out. so i know what you're saying.
     
    my school is only at night, so i work all day, from 8 to 5, then go to school from 6 to 10 two or 3 nights a week. makes for REALLY long days!
  • silverwhisper said on Apr 24, 2008....
    dude, project managers can make a good living. hold on to your notes for this class, trav. i don't know what you'll wind up doing w/ your degree, but geeks who can also do project management are generally look to for management positions--at least, IMX anyway.

    ed
  • travelr712 said on Apr 24, 2008....
    yeah, i know ed. i actually started my bachelor's in TPM, thinking that very same thing. this class is what convinced me to switch to ISS. it's just not me to do that type of management, i'm too much of a hands on problem solver to want to sit around all day planning out work for other people.
  • silverwhisper said on Apr 24, 2008....
    i can understand that--with some jobs, either you've got the personality for it or you don't! :>

    ed

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