What to do for 8 hours a day...

I work from 8.30 - 5. I answer phone calls, ring the occasional person, and send out instruction manuals through the net. This perhaps takes me a max of an hour or two a day. The rest of the time i get quite bored. Any suggestions of what i can do? My computer sux at work and has no soundcard, and has so many restrictions on it there's no way even if i got a sound card put in that i could load any interesting to use on it. I'm in an open plan area, so i can't bring my guitar in, or shut the door and just practice. i'm trying to work on poetry type stuff that i might be able to use in music, but when there's nothing flowing, it just makes me angry and not want to be here. But i'm biding my time, and they want me permanently, and i'm waiting to start uni next year (if i get accepted) so i dont' really want to go work somewhere else for 6 months, cos i have other things in that time as well.

Anyone got any suggestions as to what i can do for a couple of hours a day that might help my music studies? Or just relieve the boredom?

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You could try this site www.nzmusic.com.

Wow, thanks fish-boy! :o) Never been there before, might check it out... no weirdo's or anything on it is there?

:o) hehe xo

Only a foot licking kitchen tyler, who dreams of sex in prison for the beastly crime of killing kittens. But I think you've safely negotiated that weirdo. The rest of them seem to be suitably unbalanced. Heck I'm masquerading as a drunk fish? er..........honestly just masquerading.

masquerading... sure....

:o)

We live and learn, that's all i can say, though all the follow up jokes to him about where museli was (i'm picking that was me) were quite funny. I quite like museli. :o) If i ever get kicked off, i'll come back as that. :o)

look busy and avoid the supervisor

Designing a website can be fun ... maybe for your favourite band or something ...

yea, sounds great, but i can't download anything on my computer - it's a really budget one. It can take e-mail, and teh system we use at work, but not a hell of a lot else. Most of it is protected.

If your computer has a text editor (notepad, presuming you're on a Windows machine) you can create websites.

w3.org has the standards which all sites should conform to, including the specs for HTML (how you organise content) and CSS (how you control what the content looks like).

Just spend months and months reading that, and take a look at sites you like and do the right click and choose "view source" to look at their HTML.

OK, not too inviting, but if you've got heaps of time...?

ben wa balls.

a favourite of factory/sweatshop workers in the orient, apparently.

http://www.rotarbiv.com/benwaballs.html ]

ha ha. nice.

bring a discman or radio a long....... maybe even a tv!!

I work for Sony hardware. I have that stuff coming out my ears. It's boring. But yea, have my discman, and it often saves me!

:o)

if you have constant access to a phone listen to the rock to have a chance at winning $4000. thats what i do while i work.

I can never get threw to the Rock now days, all I get now is a 'over-loading' message

Get a sound card, then get a program called Guitar Pro 4, then you can compose music

http://www.mysongbook.com ]

I have all the composition programmes i need at my mates place, what i dont' have is access to be allowed to put them on my computer at work.... it won't let me! :o)

I have a variety of activities that keep me busy at work. I'm knitting a pink hoody, I do the NY Times crossword puzzle, I read, I write, and I've learned to fold almost anything out of paper. My most recent project, which I find fascinating but my co-workers think is the definitive mark of my geekdom, is that I'm teaching myself latin. I have a hefty tome, a dictionary and a notebook, and I just sit and conjugate all day.

It's not all that difficult to keep occupied, just try different things. In fact, if you can't keep yourself occupied for eight hours, you're probably not very creative. Maybe a box of crayons and a coloring book is the way to go.

Im a big fan of the NYT crossword.

Crayons sounds good.... i hadn't thought of knitting. Might be a good idea... was thinking of making bead belts and jewelery and stuff... not very creative much these days... think my brain has been on holiday to long... but thanks for the suggestions!

Ummm also my friend would like to know how you would write the following in Latin:
"I would kill everyone in this room for one drop of sweet beer!" (- Homer J Simpson).
He thinks it will make a great tatt. He's a very strange fellow and Im begining to question our friendship but if you could help out that would be great (hell, when he gets it done I'll post it so you can have a laugh).

ummmm Woman's Day or any magazines?

Buy a game boy.

get an internet boyfriend.

get one of those "work from home" jobs and do it at your work - double the money!

//get an internet boyfriendf
it takes time to get over the last one prozaco...give the girl some time

Plus can't download yahoo messanger or anything. So that just continues to suck.....

Dunno about those work from home jobs - they seem a bit dodgy. Never come accross one you don't have to fork out money to start up....

Still working on the ex too... stayed at his house last night.... dodgy..... he's far to adictive.....

// Dunno about those work from home jobs - they seem a bit dodgy. Never come accross one you don't have to fork out money to start up....

you can get ones doing telemarketing for small companies. i know someone who does that and its not dodgy at all. good for a little extra money if you've got nothing else to do at work.

tell someone who gives a shit.....failing that tell us, who dont give a shit...either way, its gotta be entertaining and a regular boredom buster for a couple of hours. failing that, write a hit song. failing that, write a hit album. failing that write a shit song. failing that write a neato ace dinky little melody on the piano. failing that do some composition limiting yourself to 3 notes. failing that, clap your hands for an hour. failing that, have a wank, a good honest long love wank. yes.

Yet another intellectual suggestion - well thought out, that must have takena lot of brain power....

//another intellectual suggestion

To be fair it sounded like quite a reasonable suggestion to me.

Sorry, was still laughing from the whole long loving wank thing....

The rest was good....

//The rest was good....
Actually, I think the whole thing was good, I think that is what the pissmefish was trying to say to you muso. Perhaps you should read closely next time before you jump like a mad rabbit on speed from thread to thread, typing and posting as quickly as you can in order to say what you have to say and get the fuck outta there before the fox cums.

Actually, it's milo, and other people post random things, so i thought i would too. That is what the bar is for isn't it?

I just really thought the long loving wank thing was highly intelligent and well thought out. Failing that, i just thought it was fucking random, and deserved a random answer.... either or, you pick. :o)

//get one of those "work from home" jobs and do it at your work - double the money!

are you sure these things work prozaco??

WANK is a attention catching word i agree.

Im sure it is written on msn some where ladies with sex addiction problems masterbate at work alot. Just thought u ppl might like to know a piece of useful travia.

attack the other people in the office. if you can pick it up, through it at them. yell abuse when they through it back.

Love it! Might try that one! Go find the scizors and industrial sized stapler!

Are u a dilberette muso?

Excuse my ignorance... a what? :o)

so u don't know dilbert...

Is he a comic strip character?

depending on whats in your office... hopefully a water cooler... or something that would be convieniant to be closer to... and hopefully your cubicle ist not beside it... if all that sounds like your work here a little tip i picked up from chanel Z.

everytime you make you way to the water cooler, or what ever, you lean over the person who's place you want and wisper "the warehouse, the warehouse, where everyone gets a bagrain..." then try that for a few weeks. the person will get the song stcuk in their head and wont be able to get rid of it, face it they are probobly as board as you are!, then finally they will either get sick of you doing it and punch you or they will go mental and leave the business so then you get to have their cubicle!

sounds quite lame but i've always wanted to no if it works!!! Good luck Trace!

Watch The Office, that may give you some ideas.

Or you could get a new job?

Try...

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And what does the mighty Heather do as a job?

//the mighty Heather
Oh, god. Am I really that much of a prima donna??

I'm a computer geek.

//I'm a computer geek.

Not any more! Gone are the days of Heather's famous essay-style posts and in-depth, detailed, and logical arguments. She's the new Kittenthyler, I tell you!

Thats good, kittenslayer is a very humourus.

You know, STING said that he has sex 8 hours per day, cause of all this meditation thing.
SEX it's not a bad thing to do, don't you think?