it's getting pretty hard to

pretend to be busy....

i've been in this job about 6 weeks now - actually today marks the start of week 7 - and bar a few days where it's been busy, i have NOTHING to do...

it's starting to get boring - first few weeks were kinda busy doing reading, getting up to speed on what everyone else in the team was doing, helping out with recruitment etc, and a bit of admin...

so it was ok for a little while, but now it's starting to wear thin! funny, when i have nothing to do it often makes me think about how much i hate the thought of being so busy that i'd have to work long hours and when i have nothing to do i long for things to do that will fill up the day...

and i don't mean boring, routine, admin type things, i mean the sort of work that actually means you're using your brain - that you're creating something new - coming up with solutions to problems etc...

frankly, none of that sort of work seems imminent (although i keep telling myself that come Dec 1, and from then until 31 March, somethings gonna change) and i find myself wondering just how much longer i'm gonna be able to stick it out...

and then a little voice in my head (you know the sensible one we all have) reminds me that i only really have to put up with corporate life (fulltime anyway) until 18th dec 2009...

and it's funny really as until i took this particular role (and had time on my hands - time that i have spent doing some analysis of my own financial situation) i hadn't even considered that i could exit corporate life so early...

i was so bored the other week i found myself looking at seek.com - but that was more a function of working for an idiot - he's gone now so that can no longer be my rationale....i'm even meeting up with an old colleague - he works in an area i am VERY interested in pursuing part time as part of my portfolio approach (once qualified) so am going to pick his brain - a small part of me is hoping he might offer me a job!

soo see, i have been doing something with the available time...