I feel so seen! Never occurred to me that being “too busy” was connected to burnout and boredom. 🤔

People who don’t need consistent mental stimulation won’t understand boreout. Yes, work is a job, but it’s good to know the type of work that resonates with you and what will make you feel like you have a purpose.

Side note, it’s a very interesting practice to learn to sit with the boredom. In short it’s a kind of mindfulness meditation where you train yourself to embrace and breathe through those feelings of repulsion the second ‘nothing’ happens. It helps us ‘take back control’ over something that is completely normal and common. It’s not about being disconnected or banning stimulus. Just choosing to have the conscious choice when you seek stimulus. Practicing this can be as simple as sitting outside with a cup of coffee alone with no other stimulus, removing time sink apps from one’s mobile device, not indulge in the urge to surf social media, etc.

i really appreciate this video. im definitely super deep into the boreout phase and am considering my options on quitting, but cant do it too soon due to a surgery. i really hope to make a shift this year but my goodness, being constantly bored and understimulated sucks

Current job has gotten like this. Extremely menial tasks that are soooo boring but it's in the contract. Looking for something new. P.S. any time you said Boreout I thought you were saying Borat lol

I worked in the Pulp and Paper industry for 40 years. So mostly in a control room with a group of people. I know in the last few years I began to hate work, Partly from the soap opera that goes on from a bunch of personalities together. Or a boss who was promoted out of the line to management and would steadily call you telling you how to do your job.

Thank you so much for this content! I so appreciate having a phrase for something I've been experiencing for years now - so much of the criteria listed describes the culture at my current job to a T

Yes thank you for discussing this work bestie!!

Absolotuely love your videos! As an aspiring content creator with first video out on KZfaq I'm not only looking at this from work experience perspective, but I also I closely follow how you run your channel. I'm amazed by your 800k plus subscribers from your great shorts and how you casually run medium length talking video. Well done!

You are my WORK BESTIE!❤️💜💛💙❤️💜💛

Florence King wrote about two kinds of people. The unimaginative, and the conscious. Seeing a variety of comments here already, people who understand what you're addressing vs ones who don't.

I think this is where I'm at now. I worked the higher position as a temp promote for 1 year- the amount of extra work sucked and having to travel on a whim sucked even at the higher pay rate, and so I've basically given up trying to get promoted now. And my total compensation is at that "good enough" level, that I can't go find a different place to work. What I really want is to sell $10000 lawn renovations and maintenance subscriptions (not the actual mowing) to the well-off people in my town with big houses but crappy lawns so that I can be considered a "small business" and basically expense every single item the moment I step out the door Monday to Saturday, but I don't think it would be sustainable.

This is exactly where I'm at right now. I'm an admin for a department, and I have figured out that this is NOT fun for me. It is unfortunate because the department that I support has a great mission that I do stand behind in general!

As an account boreout sure is common. Cyclical ups and down in workload really makes me not want to ask to take on more because when I do, inevitably always lands during my busiest time. Or I’m so tired from the stress and rush over everything I tend to procrastinate and not want to deal with smaller tasks during my slow periods. 😂 I’m working on a better system but it sure is challenging.

I became so bored at my last job that the GM gave me free reign to try to collect on old, past due accounts. There was one for $80+k that was driving him crazy as they were more than 6 months late. I successfully collected on that account (3 different people were sending the invoice to an incorrect email address) and on others (in one week I had collected over $130k). I also uncovered some shady money dealings involving the GM. A week after collecting the amounts and uncovering the shady business, I was terminated. The business owner and GM were planning on putting the past due amount into their personal accounts, not the business account. Smh. Place was too small to have a HR department. Plus, I currently live in an At Will state. Sucks.

Bore-out = Peter Gibbons in Office Space. Especially with a hyper micro manager such as William Lumbergh.

This is the first time I learned about the term “boreout”! The more you know!

I used to do office temp work. Sometimes all I was was a warm body in the front. I could read and get paid for it. I was so happy.

I've been bored in most of my jobs so far, I'm getting stuff done, even well, but what keeps me going is one coworker with whom I really get along. Also I only work part time (partly for the bored reason), so I can do other, challenging things during the day and don't have to be bored for 8 hours a day. Ugh.

Boreout led me on the road to Burnout. When i finally managed to fix the Burnout I was back in Boreout. *Sigh*

Successful leaders understand how to stimulate their employees, how to build their passions in ways that improve them and their sense of well being, and leverage that towards a better and more productive cooperative experience. The path to this is different from employee to employee. It does require a balance of giving people rote, mundane, required tasks, but this must be coupled with offering them opportunities for growth in the direction they want to grow. I realize this will not work with every single employee, and that some employees do truly want that rote, mindless work, want to put in the minimal effort, and even that can be leveraged to get things done. But bore your employees at your own peril. A work place that is mutually beneficial and meaningful to everyone involved has a much higher chance for success.

This is one reason why I am struggling at my job. That and a ton of changes in staff and management has caused my job to feel a lot less stable and to some extent made me less motivated.

Thank you for this!~ My current issue that while I'm working on "sitting in the boredom" (coming from a very fast paced industry), I'm not allowed to be bored/have no work via the c-suite/management. This is despite that I truly, will have no tasks, no people to shadow/learn from, those I support need no admin tasks from me and I've asked around who and how can I help but it's just one of those slow days/weeks. However, management hates that and sees it as lack of work ethic. If you do another round of these videos can you address best way to navigate that? (Will add that I'm forced to be in the office 5 days a week while almost everyone else/those I support are hybrid and have to wait to be "approved" for hybrid...and this hybrid approval is not merit based, legit only time spent based).

This reel confirms to me even more how detrimental fully remote work can be. Far more unseen WFH and building those relationships are fine but to shadow etc it’s not quite so fluid remotely.

I just moved to a new country to start a new job, and already feel what I think now is boreout. My job title is a step lower than I know I’m capable of, there’s 6 months before reconsideration so nothing right now is challenging, motivating , I have no passion for what I’m doing at all, when I used to at a previous job. What do I do about this?

I would love to get some help with tips for a job interview. I recently separated from a job of 2 1/2 years that I loved and put a lot of personal emotion and care into…only to realize that my efforts were not only not appreciated they were blamed for company failures. I was not the only long-term employee that this happened to. My question is, when interviewing for a new position, how do I respectfully let them know that I have professional boundaries without coming across as someone who is unemployable?

Skill and Passion: marry up! Moist interesting.

Anhedonia is kind of listlessness

laura’s yap sesh

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All that talk about boreout sounds a lot like life in general, but who said it had to be anything but? Life is to be endured, to be gotten on with. And then you go to whatever the 'ell happens when you take your final nap. Jeebus.

OMG another ‘made up’ word. Work is a JOB, it’s where one goes to earn a living. 8 hours work = 8 hours pay. A job is not where one goes for emotional support. Not motivated? That’s on YOU!

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