Busy doing nothing....can you sit and do sod all?

[Skub]

There's always things to do,the enthusiasm level varies. I don't bore easily,if left to my own devices.

I'm quite happy to do nothing occasionally,but as mentioned already,choice is key to enjoyment.

[Rockburner]

Funnily enough I can do quite a lot of 'nothing' while appearing to do 'something' if there's a job to do that I can't summon up much enthusiasm for.

That pretty much describes my entire working life....

[cheb]

Thinking further on this, I've been sitting, I spend and have spent a lot of time just hanging about. Waiting for ferries, a driving job that was more waiting than driving, children's stuff when they were small, that sort of thing. What I find difficult is waiting without something to read. It's not helped by my preference to be early for things, sometimes stupidly early or unnervingly on time.

And whilst I'm happy to waste my time I'm not keen on others wasting it for me by being late if they asked me to help them do stuff.

[Skub]

Thinking further on this, I've been sitting, I spend and have spent a lot of time just hanging about. Waiting for ferries, a driving job that was more waiting than driving, children's stuff when they were small, that sort of thing. What I find difficult is waiting without something to read. It's not helped by my preference to be early for things, sometimes stupidly early or unnervingly on time.

And whilst I'm happy to waste my time I'm not keen on others wasting it for me by being late if they asked me to help them do stuff.

My Da was like that,always madly early for absolutely everything. He got well wound up any time I had to take him for appointments.

[Greenman]

I've been signed off for another fortnight, which I'm fine with as I still ain't right. I've been told umpteen times to take it easy, put my feet up, get rest and recover, but I'm incapable of sitting and doing nothing as it seems a waste of time. I've read couple of books, cooked a shit ton of stuff and been doing jobs that I can (plus some I shouldn't...lifting floors and moving shower trays...me? Nah).
I've even taken to making my own amaro, FFS.

Can you sit and watch Netflix all day? How do retirees cope with nothing to do?

GWS Gremers...

I can do it but not sober.

Maybe you have hit the age to finally chill out and seek some natural relaxants! edibles...

I struggle to be still though. I'm one of those who will wiggle his leg up and down in most situations and be wandering around talking to everyone. My old man is still the same at 88 and just cannot accept he is old lol.

I have madness in my mind all the time and if i just do nothing i get super angry and frustrated, i need to be moving forward always, forward ever backward never and all that shizzle!

[Greenman]

When I retired I tried to keep busy. Now I just do what I want.
But do insist on walking at least 6 miles a day to keep well.

I think for a lot of us it's all about routine.

We all say i can't do that, never gonna be like that etc, but once you get into a new routine it all becomes normal and you forget how you used to be, whether that is negative or positive is up to the individual!

[Yorick]

Aha. just realised I don't like just lazing in the evenings. Gotta walk into town, or watch telly or something to pass the time.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I was employed by BT for 10 years, followed by 25 years in IT, feck me can I ever do nothing.

[Yorick]

I was employed by BT for 10 years, followed by 25 years in IT, feck me can I ever do nothing.

I was a DBA. And we all know what that means

Does Bugger All

[Dodgy69]

Is watching tv, reading, watching YouTube or messing on ebay classed as doing nothing.

[Whysub]

I spent 25 years working minimum12 hour days, six days a week, sometimes away from home.

When I retired, at my leaving do, a colleague said "I'll give you six months before you are dead or back at work". Not a chance of either.

Now I have no deadlines or places to be, I never know where the day goes. I can go pottering around the garden at 10 am, and still be pottering at 6pm.

Just painted the outside of my house, but only a few hours a day over two weeks. No hurry.

I often get to the end of the day, and wonder what I've done. Never bored, always something doing, or planning to do.

[ZRX61]

I think general pottering can be classified as being busy doing bugger all, whereas tinkering involves doing something. I often tinker in the garage & after a day or two of that I have to switch to pottering to put things away & tidy up etc.

My suggestion is read more books..maybe of a technical nature so you go to bed wiser than when you woke up.

Try not to spend too much time fribbling, dillydallying or diddling. Lollygagging may be ok.

[mangocrazy]

Try not to spend too much time fribbling, dillydallying or diddling. Lollygagging may be ok.

Where does dolloping about fit into the scheme of things?

Asking for a friend...

[ZRX61]

Try not to spend too much time fribbling, dillydallying or diddling. Lollygagging may be ok.

Where does dolloping about fit into the scheme of things?

Asking for a friend...

I believe that falls between paltering & frummery.

[Ian]

I hate *doing nothing*, I soon start climbing the walls. I don't even have patience for TV.

I can slack off for England, mucking about with guitars, telescopes, bikes, vintage computers, reading etc. but despite what the wife says that's not actually 'doing nothing'.

[Bike Breaker]

I've been signed off for another fortnight, which I'm fine with as I still ain't right. I've been told umpteen times to take it easy, put my feet up, get rest and recover, but I'm incapable of sitting and doing nothing as it seems a waste of time. I've read couple of books, cooked a shit ton of stuff and been doing jobs that I can (plus some I shouldn't...lifting floors and moving shower trays...me? Nah).
I've even taken to making my own amaro, FFS.

Can you sit and watch Netflix all day? How do retirees cope with nothing to do?

Nothing to do? Don't you know any retirees? In my experience, a high number say "I don't know how I found time to go to work". I'm one of them.

Regarding forced idleness, following abdominal surgery last year, I wasn't allowed to lift anything that weighed more than 2.5 kg. and even nothing at all from the floor. Despite being an old biddy, I was delighted to be back to normal without needing the full potential recovery time.

[Yorick]

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[Mussels]

Learn Python.

Then use it to write a script that becomes essential for your department to function, nobody else will understand it and your job security improves a lot.

[Yorick]

Learn Python.

Then use it to write a script that becomes essential for your department to function, nobody else will understand it and your job security improves a lot.

That's what a DBA does

[Taipan]

Learn Python.

Is this the right room for an argument?