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Bored with life!

  • 07-05-2015 6:08pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,012 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi,

    For a while now I have been feeling very bored with life. I am in my mid thirties and haven't had much excitement in a while. Every day just seems mundane and uninspiring.
    Each day is a repeat of the previous day. Get up, commute to work, go home, try and do study, sleep and repeat. Come the weekend I don't know what to do and just end up doing nothing.

    I am in a well paid job but really feel I'm in over my head at times. That's why I study each evening to become an expert in my role. I'm now leading 2 people so feel I should be more skilled than them and be able to train them in. At times I just get disillusioned and annoyed at myself for not being an expert at work especially when the others are teaching me a lot of stuff!
    I often wish I wasn't working at what I am but then otherdays I really enjoy work. And I cannot really go back and do other qualifications. Most people are nice but one or two are real arseholes!

    I am usually very trustful of people but find everyone so competitive at work and is hard to know who is genuine.

    Apologies for the negative rant. I have been trying to be positive but some days I just feel overwhelmed. I just need happiness/excitement in my life!


Comments

  • #2
    ellaeire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭ellaeire


    At least u have a career imagine being bored with lif, alone and no career. No funds to distract u, no one to hug u when ur low and nothing to get up for in the morning!! Its horrendous. Desperate even to find a life line. Try remember me when ur bored and let that push u into trying all the options u have. Like finding new hobbies, educating yourself, spending time networking or just improving your social life. You have a great starting point so chin up and get going!!!!


  • #3
    shaymus27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭shaymus27


    Think you already know. You just need happiness and excitement in your life !!!

    We all need friends and a social life and you seem to not do anything at the weekends so it seems you need to develop a social life.

    From reading posts on boards there's an on-line social site, meetup.com and it has various groups within it. It seems to be based in Dublin but I think there may be some groups here and there outside Dublin. Look it up to develop a social life.

    A social life will distract you from your work and the various stresses work brings.

    As Morgan Freeman said in Shawshank Redemption, "Get busy living or get busy dying" or words to that effect !!!

    Get busy living !!!!


  • #4
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,165 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    balance the work life with someting outside. exercise, trips away, interests.

    also, don't feel that you need to know everything just because of your position. no one knows everything even about their chosen field.
    allow others who are new into it to 'teach' you things. good for them and good for you.

    take care


  • #5
    grumpynerd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 153 ✭✭grumpynerd


    yay. I was here only a few days ago. Not sure if theres any cure for an existential malaise.

    what i find helps is looking at things very structurally. Youll be old in 3 decades. In which case you'll be really ****ed as many activities will be out of reach anyway. Youll be dead in 4 decades.

    everything and everyone you know and love will die before you. at the end you'll be willing for death.

    i find that mindset helps make mundane things more fun again and gives a jolt of life into stuff I was getting bored of.


  • #6
    marizpan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 443 ✭✭marizpan


    Your life sounds like it's all about working! Of course your not happy.

    You don't mention family, friends, hobbies etc


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  • #7
    Blue Iris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭Blue Iris


    What you're describng OP is serious stress rather than boredom in my view. It's draining the life out of you and leaving you with no energy at the weekend. Then you have a catch 22: you need enjoyable activities to balance out work stress but you're too overwhelmed by stress to engage in any activities!

    If, having read all the replies here, you still can't motivate yourself to take action it might be worth having a few sessions with someone who specialises in stress management. If you don't sort it out now it could lead to burn out . Best of luck.


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