What To Do When You're Bored At Work

This one's pretty simple, listen to audio books. If you work at a company that allows you to have an ipod at work and/ or listen to music, pick up a couple audio books. Rip them onto your ipod, open up a spreadsheet, or website (so you look like you are doing something relevant to your job), and enjoy. When you listen to a book on tape you get sucked into the story and follow the plot so you forget what time it is and thus time goes by much quicker (in your perception). Make sure you limit your listening of this book on tape to work, leaving yourself hanging at a section of the story at the end of a day of work may actually make you look forward to going to work the next day! I would suggest the Harry Potter series, its seven books long and will give you about 150 hours of listening.

This is a pretty good one, it is actually exactly what I'm doing now, and actually I am listening to an audio book and doing this at the same time. If you are a person who uses Squidoo to create lenses just simply open up a word document and title it "Notes" and reduce the window to quarter screen. Then open up a long document, or spreadsheet, or whatever and begin jotting down ideas for lenses and basic module layouts and start writing some content, you would be amazed how much you can get done in a single work day, or even just a couple hours. Then on lunch break or when you get home that evening (Having emailed the file to yourself), just drop the text into the lens, add videos, Amazon, and whatever else you may want to add to your lens and viola! Uninterrupted you could probably crank out 3-5 solid lenses a day at work! UDATE: I have finished this entire lens in less than an hour with this method.

My buddy and I were at work one day, bored. We have the half height cubicles so you can see over to talk to the person next to you. So we decided to develop a game to play at work in our free time, we called it%u2026 "Excel Battleship," and yes it is exactly what it sounds like. So here's what you do; you open an existing spreadsheet in excel and add two additional sheets to the end of it, this way if your boss comes by you can flip back to the first page and appear to be doing something important. The great thing about this is you can create your own battleship game of any size, and any number of ships, the columns and rows are already labeled for you and everything. First off you make all the columns and rows the same width and height so they form a grid made of small squares, highlight this whole playing area gray, or whatever color you want. One of the spreadsheets is your part, where you place your ships, and the other sheet is what you're shooting at. Settle on rules with the person you are going to play with and outline the ships by highlighting the cells black. I use white or yellow highlighting to track where I have shot, and red highlighting to show where I have hit. Take shots via email to be stealthy (so your boss doesn't walk by and hear "C22!"), or if the person you are playing with sits far away. Use your creativity there are infinite possibilities of games you can design in excel, my buddy actually started creating a R.I.S.K board.

Hey! Why not just cut the middle man out and not have to think about things to kill your time while you are forced to be stuck at work? This summer is the first time that I have worked a full 40 hour a week job... and it sucks. I really cannot envision myself working 40 hours a week for the rest of my life, so half way through the summer I made a decision; I am going to do everything in my power to get the hell out of the work force, hopefully before I even graduate from college. In this endeavor, as in many knowledge is power, I have actually spent most of my free time at work educating myself on an array of topics, which is when I stumbled upon Squidoo, and the concept of making money via online marketing. I plan to create an entire lens soon to sum up all I have learned through my studies, on the many ways to produce a steady income from your own online business, or more like other people's online businesses. Investing your free time now into an education of these topics could lead to spending your free time golfing, fishing, or doing whatever the hell you want, because you will be your own boss!