wasting time, wasting time

i just read a little blurb about how many people waste time in the work place and it turns out to be something like 20% of the workday is wasted by the average american worker. for me, it's more like 99.9%. i'm done with my work before 10am every single day, and even when i do get a job to do, it takes me about an hour, then i'm back to wasting time until the day is over. if there's one thing i've learned from this job (and it is certainly not anything to do with actual engineering) it's that life is too short to work at a job you hate. why would you want to work at a job where you spend a majority of the time just wasting time? granted, this internship is different because i don't really have a "place" in the company, i'm just kind of here to learn a little bit about how the company works and how businesses like this one work. one thing that i've noticed is that as this internship goes on, i've become much more comfortable about the fact that i just don't have anything to do. when i started working here, i was very concerned with getting my work done, being perfect, looking perfect, etc. now... i could care less. i think everyone who works around here knows that A: i don't have anything to do except waste time, thereby wasting the company's money and B: coming to my cubicle to talk to me about bikes is perfectly ok, and is a good way for them to get out of doing their work. After doing a little bit more thinking about how things have gone this summer, i put together a handy little qualitative graph representing some aspects of this job that have changed since i started here.

there you have it. 10 minutes until the whistle blows, then i'm back at it again tomorrow. oh yeah, and the paper that i drew my pants reference man on had some other drawings on the back of it for a product that i worked on and my boss took it yesterday. hopefully he won't be too confused by that little guy. i would be.