Zen and the art of...

Lt_Patch

As some of you will know, I recently did 2 weeks as little more than a photocopy monkey, for a ludicrous hourly rate (£9.55/hr). What I did know (after the second day) was how much I would get paid per hour, and how long they expected this to go on for.
What I didn't know, was how relaxing I would find the churning of the photocopier, the consistant thud of the "Controlled Document" stamp, the gentle hissing of a sheet of paper going into a plastic folder, and the satisfying clunk of a ring binder being snapped shut.

What things have you been totally surprised at how relaxing they are, after being apprehensive about them at the start?

TychoCelchuuu

Genocides in Africa and Star Trek music. Not concurrently.

lolfighter

I see that the "corpodronification" drugs we have been adding to the drinking water are working...

Hee hee hee...


To answer the actual question though: Carting patients around in a biggish hospital with a very poorly (or rather, not very much) planned layout. Initially the multitude of ways I could screw up seemed daunting, not to mention the horrible prospect of in-transit medical emergencies (which I soon learned that I, as untrained personnel, was unlikely to encounter since I would not be assigned to transports where such events were probable). Add to this the confusing layout of the hospital with multiple routes to any destination and small, half-secret shortcuts, and you had the perfect mixture for a stressful job. And stressful it was, sometimes, but after the first couple of weeks I had most of the standard procedures down pat and could just zone out for extended periods of time as the workday trudged past me, chit-chatting with the patients if they seemed like they were in the mood for it, or just thinking my own thoughts about everything and nothing.

Monkfish

Reloading.

Caboose

emerge -uD world

watching the text fly by.

Nil_IQ

Collecting trolleys in the car park. Its like a paid holiday after working 3 straight hours on a busy checkout. But I only have to do either for 3 more weeks <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />

BlackMage

Doing stocks after hell-o-ween at the party store. Primarily because I almost went the full day without talking to a single customer.

also, mittens.

DiscoZombie

I always thought those alarm clocks that make nature sounds to fall asleep to were hokey and stupid, but now I have one and it's surprisingly relaxing =p

driving with the heat on high is a little too relaxing also... sometimes I almost fall asleep at the wheel <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />

Quaunaut

Driving in the snow.

I just feel really at home behind the wheel I guess, and whether I'm on ice, snow, in dirt, wherever, I never lose control. *Shrug*