Why is IT work sooooooo boring?

[Kalyani]

As I slowly trudged up the stairs, I wondered when the work that I had once taken so much pride in had turned into, at best, a dreary repetitive chore, or worse, into an exhausting ordeal. The very thought of work evoked mixed feelings of boredom and dread, a far cry from what I had felt when I had left home at the age of twenty-two to take up my first corporate job, to take my first step on the ladder of success, prosperity and happiness. Why, I could still recollect the early days when work had actually been fun, a time when I had willingly and happily sacrificed my weekends, my family time and my downtime at the altar of work. When had all that changed? When had the bright flame of enthusiasm wavered, sputtered, and finally died out? Two years ago? Three? Five?


Actually, I think that my life had been on a downward spiral for quite some time now; it had just taken me this long to finally acknowledge it. I had now openly begun to hate work, to feel frustrated at how, instead of working on actual solutions to actual problems, I spent so much of my time working new buzzwords into proposals, frameworks, approaches, whitepapers, methodologies and presentations that no one ever read.


And the meetings… oh god, the meetings! Each meeting was a clone of the previous one, a criminal misnomer for futile gatherings where much was said but nothing was ever achieved, jamborees in which grand ideas were floated and discussed at length with no focus whatsoever on converting them into reality.

Read more about Kalyani’s life in Bend Your Knees & Do Your Best– a story about a 40 year old IT professional whose neat and boring life suddenly turns upside down because of downsizing at work. And though Kalyani manages to land on her feet, she finds that her life has changed forever…