by Anonymous Anomaly

Created on: July 01, 2010

Boredom is a horrible condition and comes from having too few activities to fill the time you have. Luckily for you, your day can be filled with making money, which can be wonderful providing your life is not so boring money has no value to you. That does not describe most of us, who have good reason to want money and to believe we can beat or at least alleviate boredom. There are twenty fours in a day, here is a non-exhaustive group of paragraphs describing productive ways you can use the few that are troubling you.

This cannot be overstated, but if you do not have any, gain some employment. Your friends and/or people you socialize with probably have jobs, the time they spend at them is probably the time you want to fill. If your friends are not employed then all the better (for you) as you can engage in your boredom-ending and cash-making together. You can look for jobs together and help each other with resumes. Where you look for jobs is entirely up to you and will likely depend on your personal and what you have done in the past. It will not be easy, not even to get one of the jobs you are told ’Americans won’t do’. In these economic times jobs are tight. For example, in London, England there are as many as 7,000 applicants for some jobs because of high unemployment and immigration. Most likely though, wherever you are, you will find a job after a few months of searching.

Any McJob is worth taking, even fast food can be rewarding. You get to meet customers who are often amusing especially if you are performing the graveyard shift, share jokes with colleagues about regulars. You can also learn new skills, especially customer service, which will stand you in good stead to progress onto a career if you wish and give you more confidence.

If you don’t feel like leaving the home then something like data entry or becoming an online assistant might be for you. This would make you basically a secretary and involve everything that secretaries normally do. Companies are often looking for dependable sales representatives and look to stay at home mothers for that, so give your people skills a polish and test drive them.

If you already have job, or even if you don’t, and just want to earn some extra cash, consider the internet as a source of income. You can design a website about something you are passionate about or know you will have fun doing. Advertising is easy to find, or you could find something people will pay for directly. You could

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