I find my job too repetitive and boring

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I feel I am going to be stuck in a boring, repetitive job all my life. I feel bored at the thought of going to work tomorrow, especially knowing I've got to work all through next week-end aswell and knowing that I'm missing out on my Sunday charity work which I thoroughly enjoy and only get to do on week-ends I am not working (and yes, thank God I DO have some week-ends off).

I am a cleaner at an old people's home, and it is very low-pay. I only do 3 days one week, 4 days the next week, because they don't employ full-time cleaners, and this was the only job I could find, after 4 long years of seeking employment. I know I should be grateful that somebody has looked past my disability and has bothered to give me a chance, but I wish I could do something more exciting.

I know not many people find their job exciting, but I find cleaning work too repetitive, and it's also 6 and a half hours a day. They say Aspies like to have repetitive work, but I seem to grow bored easily and rather do something that's more exciting, but where you still know what you are doing. But I feel that the more exciting jobs all want you to be ''an excellent communicator'', which I have not got good enough social skills to be under pressure with it, although I wish I could. I would love to work in a busy shop, serving customers at a customer service desk, and answering telephones and stuff like that, where there's a lot going on and you don't quite know what to expect, rather than just cleaning somewhere quite monotonous.

I think I am wired wrong because I struggle to interact with people, yet I get so lonely doing my job (because I am left on my own). So that is why I get bored. Is there any way out of thinking like this?

I think Aspies can learn social interaction for customer service--particularly over the phone, where NTs struggle with the absence of nonverbal communication. But, it is something you may need to struggle with for months before you get any good at it. And you will wonder why it is worth the aggravation.

I have had 3 jobs in my life where I worked in solitude: Truck Driver, Night Janitor, and Night Control Room. The control room job was the most boring. I had to sit at a console monitoring TV equipment. Probably the only good thing about it was having internet access.

The truck driving job was often dull but sometimes interesting. At least I got to see the country while listening to XM Radio.

Going back further though was my janitor job cleaning a shopping mall on the night shift. This job was also low pay, but I had a lot of freedom in the job as long as everything was finished in the morning. I had to run floor scrubbers through the whole mall, mop the food court, take out the trash bags, and cleanup the public restroom. I could do these tasks anyway I wanted to and otherwise do what I wanted.

I could walk up and down the mall or even ride the security bike around. I guess what I'm getting at is the cleaning was dull but offset by having so much autonomy. I wonder if you might use cleaning experience to find a better job in another setting where you have more flexibility.

You used the all word remove that from your thought process. Some of your life yes not all.
" struggle to interact with people, yet I get so lonely doing my job" Yes this is a trickey bit to work out i would agree. You want more human contact tell your job coach that they can help maybe ?

I think everyone goes through things like this at work. The description of the "Work and finding a Job" section of this forum sums everyones feelings about most jobs.

"When you grow up you'll be put in a container called a cubicle. The bleak oppressiveness will warp your spine and destroy your capacity to feel joy. Luckily you'll have a boss like me to motivate you with something called fear."

As for me I have been trying to find a job in the field I wanted to get to but I think my communication skills cause them to not hire me.

You could always try audio books or pod-cast shows to pass the time quicker.

I think that this story relevant to this year

Back room, specialist geek jobs seem to be the way forward for lots of Aspies.

There's normally a lower status, more public-facing role you have to survive to get there, though.

This thread is like 8 years old and I am in a job that I like now. Who bumped this topic?