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For a lot of people boredom and lack of satisfaction in the job will kick in shortly after the new excitement wears off.
Jobs that have lots of idle time often lead to annoyance and frustration that you have to continue to be there without much to do. Everyone is different though, some people probably enjoy it.
Same people complaining about boredom would probably next complain about there beint too much to do.
This is exactly me. I spend most of my workday on my phone, doom scrolling. There might be an hour of actual work to do on a given day. It's driving me insane and my neck is really starting to bother me from staring at my phone all day. I'm in the interviewing process for something different, so there's a light at the end of the tunnel but it's still pretty dark in here.
I feel your pain, and dealt with similar feelings when I worked a job that I didn't find satisfying or challenging.
There are plenty of ways to turn the downtime at a boring job into an opportunity to learn something useful or find time for self improvement. Something like jotting down notes about a project you want to start or topic you want to learn more about can get you away from the phone, even if it's only for a few moments.
I found it easy to break the doom scrolling habit by replacing it with reading books instead of garbage on the internet. I downloaded an e-reader app for my phone at first and used a free library membership to find some authors and topics to get me started. In my case I eventually got annoyed by the notifications and phone nonsense while I was trying to read and switched to a dedicated e-reader. YMMV.
Yeah I worked a job which security clearances were needed. Spent a lot of the week in the parking lot waiting for clearances to push through. Very boring and by the time you got in you didn’t feel like working anymore.