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Anyone have a job that requires only around 90 minutes of actual work per day, but still expects 8+ hours of office attendance?

I work in PR and the lack of anything to really do is starting to get to me. I like the 'bigger' content writing jobs like putting together press releases or ghost-writing articles because they require at least some intellectual effort, but today's tasks include, for e.g., writing a LinkedIn post about some announcement for a client who's too lazy to do it for themselves, as well as a formulaic 'media pitch' for an article I have to write. And that's it. Furthermore, tasks on an account are parcelled out to members of the team in tiny little trickles of work (I like to call this 'sachetisation'), and then logged and flagged up for everyone so we have a record of things etc. I even occasionally get delegated the task of delegating a task to someone (e.g. 'Ask Sarah to update the campaign tracker by the end of the day'…


I work in PR and the lack of anything to really do is starting to get to me.

I like the 'bigger' content writing jobs like putting together press releases or ghost-writing articles because they require at least some intellectual effort, but today's tasks include, for e.g., writing a LinkedIn post about some announcement for a client who's too lazy to do it for themselves, as well as a formulaic 'media pitch' for an article I have to write. And that's it.

Furthermore, tasks on an account are parcelled out to members of the team in tiny little trickles of work (I like to call this 'sachetisation'), and then logged and flagged up for everyone so we have a record of things etc. I even occasionally get delegated the task of delegating a task to someone (e.g. 'Ask Sarah to update the campaign tracker by the end of the day' – something which the person could have done themselves in the time it took them to ask me to do that.)

Anyone else in this boat? How do you deal with the boredom? Do you get everything done in one go or procrastinate the whole day? How can doing nothing be so draining?

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