Back to work today. Hasn't been as hellish as I was expecting; I was kind of getting myself into a bit of an anxious mess towards the end of yesterday evening. What if I'd forgotten how to do my job? What if I'd inadvertently done something wrong that had been discovered in my absence, and I got in trouble or fired?
Naturally, neither of these things happened and today was a mundane work day just like any other. As I have done on many occasions in the past, however, I found myself wondering what life would be like if our work day was half the length. I'm sure I'm not the only person with an office job who has long periods of "dead air" where there's seemingly nothing to do. Wouldn't it be better to have a shorter work day where there's more of an emphasis on getting important things done rather than casually ambling your way through your to-do list when you feel like it, staring into space when you don't?
Or would the same thing just happen on a shorter timeframe? If we had a four-hour workday, would two hours of that be taken up by "dead air"? That would be a bit more palatable in terms of boredom, at least, but not necessarily any more productive.
I dunno. In my (admittedly relatively limited) experience with jobs like this over the years, it just always feels like a significant proportion of the workday is just… "being at work" for the sake of being at work. And that doesn't seem like it really benefits anyone.
Still, I guess it's better than that time I worked a 12-hour shift in retail and knackered my feet for several months afterwards. So I should probably be grateful for the boredom!
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