Anyone else work a desk job??

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Anyone else find sitting in a desk for 8 hours a day to be akin to some form of torture?

I can never get my seat adjusted properly. I hate all my clothes – nothing feels right. I hate getting up to go to the fax machine, or even the bathroom, because I know it’ll take forever to get comfortable again when I get back. The sun always finds something outside to reflect off of and end up right in my eyes. The temperature is never right. It’s either always too quiet or too loud. My phone startles the hell out of me when it rings. To top it all off, I hate my job – though sometimes I think it would be far more tolerable if I could do it from a suitable environment.

I’ve been 5 years at this job and I feel like I’m going a little more insane every day.

Yeah it's tricky but I've found some little adjustments that help. I tend to feel more comfortable with my right side against a wall, so I am less distracted because my left field of vision is less alert to movement etc.

I don't have to follow a dress code though, thankfully.

I do not think I could possibly deal with a desk job, so I am hoping to be able to somehow find a means to work for myself, or at least be involved in a job that doesn't involve sitting down all the time...maybe a library job or something in an art gallery, since both art and books interest me and some walking around is involved.

Yes, desk jobs can eat away at you over time. I work as a proofreader for a publishing company and my cubicle right out on the production floor isn't a very Aspie-friendly environment, what with the people literally running around screaming at each other right before things are due to press and the fluorescent lighting. I have a pretty poor attention span as it is and just trying to concentrate in that setting, let alone do my job well, can be draining.

I think the worst part about working a desk job is dealing with office politics, though. Sometimes I feel like I'm back in junior high. For me, it's more depressing the second time around because I feel less optimistic that some people will outgrow all of the pettiness.

I'm half afraid to be complaining like this, though, since my corporation was just bought out and if I lose my job or get transferred, I might end up somewhere worse...

I have a desk job but I work at most four hours at a time.

I work as a mapping technician for a city government, and I mostly do desk work. Sometimes, I also do fieldwork using the GPS system.

Tim

Hi. I have done desk jobs before, but thank god they were the type of place where I could get up and actually move about without the "MAN" after me. LOL
I would go totally bonkers if I had to remain seated all day. Start tapping the pencil, chewing the pen, etc.
I am lucky that I work in a digital prepress environment and I actually have need to go to the printer or proofread this or that. And can you believe that my boss says I find too many errors? WTF is that? LOL

I'm sure there are quite a few of us wasting our abilities in soul destroying office jobs. I'm in corporate regulation; doesn't get much more boring than that. Fortunately my desk faces a window so I can use internet forums whilst I'm supposed to be working.

My parents both have “desk jobs”. My mom’s a CPA and my dad’s a CEO so they’re sitting at their desks for at least ten hours a day.

I work a 7.75 hour day sitting in front of a computer with my headset on. I get up three times, one 15 minute break in the AM and then 30 minute lunch and then another 15 minute break and then I am outta there! I am on the phone all day, endlessly explaining health insurance benefits and claims to both medical providers and the members of our insurance policies. I have never had to say anything that was questionable to my own standards and sense of honor so I consider the position one of the best I have had in my life.

Asperger's Syndrome experiencers wonder how I can deal with excited people, dissappointed people, worried people and just plain irate and behaving badly people let along actually TALKING to people all day and I just say:

I have them in MY sphere of expertise. They can't use any of that NT body language or facial expressions on me, I am whom ever I care to be on the other end of that phone. (I even put them on hold, successfully change my voice and persona and BE the manager they asked to talk to! I used to be a 'phone actor')

In this way, I can use my formidible lauguage skills and go on and on and on because it is like professional speed dating, my rap goes on and the people change.

I launder my natural fiber clothing with baby laundry soap, I make sure to use a fabric softener with no added perfumes, etc. I find getting the static electricity out of the area around my computer REALLY helps me concentrate I used to spray that anti-static spray, but it smells detestible, so I carry fragrance free dryer sheets and run it along the sides of the desk an chair when no one is there or watching. I am sure they would think I was going to wear the upside down collender covered with tin foil on my head to deflect the alpha beams from Mars next if they DID see me! ( I am 'out' but not THAT 'out'!)

Anyway, the atmosphere could be worse, and so could my cube mates, I suppose. My co
workers are still scratching their heads wondering whythe 'ret*d' is still working there, let alone taking the same accelerated classes as they are!

I preservere in the job, because I don't see much else at the moment.

Merle

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I can imagine, I work in a publishing company too but it's a bit more quiet where I sit thankfully

What did the desk say to the chicken?

Lay ontop of me or I'll turn into a bed!

I work a desk job, but only part time, sixteen hours a week and I still hate it. It's the people part of it that drives me crazy, that and the wretched telephone. And wearing the clothes, I suppose. Smart Casual is not my favoured attire and I would give anything to be allowed to wear sneakers.

I'm looking for something else. Aside from anything else, the pay is wretched in this one.

I don’t technically have to follow a dress code either, I work in a pretty casual environment. I’m stuck behind a desk in a semi-private office, and the only people I deal with aside from my co-workers are on the phone. I can wear jeans every day – but the problem is, I even hate jeans! If it were up to me, I’d wear yoga pants every day. Summer is coming – I may start! And I’ll keep it up until someone tells me to stop.

At least we’re a far cry from my mother’s days – I remember her dressing up in a skirt, blouse, blazer, pantyhose and high heels every day just to go sit at a typewriter and answer phones. I’d die.

I have to work both at and away from my desk. As I'm in my own office, I find my desk to be a haven, because I can get away from the hustle and bustle of the rest of the department. I get less disturbances when I'm in with the door shut, than when I'm out and about - people are generally too lazy to come and find me, as I'm in an out-of-the-way part of the building.

I work at a desk most days, except whenever Mister Scrooge gets excited (which is quite often) and starts screaming that I have to take some paperwork to an agency for a property sale immediately!! ! Then it's jump in my ageing MB and drive through traffic ! !!
It gets very tedious, except for the chance to post here ! !! I'd like to get a job doing something else, and I'm casting about ! !!