Long retrain coming

[j4]

My job is so meaningless. I mean, I know they all are, in the end, but this one is definitely more so than many. Less than the previous one, though. I suppose that's something to be thankful for. That, and the very reasonable salary.

And, I mean, it's indoors, which is a good thing.

But anyway.

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the hierarchy and the inertia

My previous job had so much inertia you could have scraped it off the walls and built some kind of evil golem with it; it also had a sufficiently inflexible hierarchy that they couldn't actually let me do the job they wanted me to do because there wasn't a name for it on the org chart ("computer says no").

This job has less inertia, and a theoretically more flexible hierarchy ... which is sufficiently complicated that to a first approximation it stops anybody getting anything done.

I suspect all the jobs I'm likely to ever be qualified to do and/or interested in doing suffer from these problems to a greater or lesser extent. But having colleagues who bothered to turn up to work were in sympathy with my aims a bit more, and having enough work to do that I wasn't reduced to Super-Evil No Really We Mean Really Fucking Difficult Sudoku Vol. XIV by 10am on an average day (or a context in which constructive extra-curricular stuff was valued, or where it was openly accepted that a de facto part-time job only required part-time attendance) ... [stops to collect threads of sentence] ... might make it a bit more bearable.

Also, you're less keen on the sort of library jobs where you have to talk to people. I, to coin an interview cliché, like meeting people. No, really. It frustrates me when I'm surrounded by people who are barely literate, but a) if they were different people every day then at least there'd be a bit of variety, and b) I'm slightly more forgiving of a lack of functional literacy when it doesn't come from PEOPLE WHO HAVE FVCKING DOCTORATES AND GET PAID FOUR TIMES MY SALARY.