Page 1 of Why didn't anyone tell me office work was exhausting?

As I've graced these halls for the best part of 15 years, my employment status has changed a few times in the interim. For the last 10, I've enjoyed sitting on my backside behind a huge windscreen driving stuff around kent. This week, however, it's all change again. Ever wishing to improve myself, I've bided my time long enough and as of this week, I'm an office jockey, having joined the sales team on wednesday.

And I'm knackered. I'm used to hard physical labour, which is a doddle, but I'm going home every night finding it hard to keep my eyes open. Hopefully it'll get better the more I get used to it, but having the manager off and another guy off sick, there's only two in the office, including me, and we've really hit the ground running.

Think I need to invest in a coffee machine

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I spend my work time switching between the two, I really do prefer the physical work most of the time (disclaimer: depths of winter excluded). Three or four days on the trot of emails and enquiries can be pretty tedious.

Office work is very tiring as you have no where to go except your desk, and bosses are forever on top of you as they know where you are. I have been on projects where I have been eating asprins every night to kill the headaches, and walking the floor boards with worry. My wife told me to give office work up.

This is why I now work on site projects, as I get around a lot, sometimes outside on a project and sometimes at my site office desk, but at no time am I stuck in the one place.

You wil have to give yourself a bit of time to see if you can get used to (suffer) office work, and if not get back to an 'out and about' job.

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"Office work is very tiring as you have no where to go except your desk, and bosses are forever on top of you as they know where you are"
If my office was anything like that, I'd still be driving the truck


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I guess it depends on both what your role is and what you're used to.

I like to be busy so my time in the Army was filled with lots of time doing virtually nothing with bursts of high activity.  My role there was designing installations based upon the specs sold to the likes of BT and AT&T amongst others so I was involved in big exchanges and small servers to be installed in contact centres.  

I've then worked in telecomms as an engineer and that could be intense but not exhausting as that was great fun.

Life is the civil service is different.  I've worked for both the Child Support Agency and now Jobcentre and it can be quite intense working for both of these organisations as you are dealing directly with members of the public, and some of them extremely vulnerable or hostile.  Luckily there are more good experiences than not but some people can't cope with working in this kind of environment.

I've enjoyed each of the jobs I've done, although all of them have different types of pressures.

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This item was edited on Saturday, 23rd May 2015, 09:05

I think it also depends what sort of an office pet you have:

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Si Wooldridge says...
"I've enjoyed each of the jobs I've done, although all of them have different types of pressures."
As I'm in a builder's yard, the majority of the pressure comes from customers moaning "I can can that for half the price at B&Q!"

...so go to B&Q then


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Tell em to go to B&Q then