A question for the factory workers

[Teysa]

There's a factory just a few blocks away from my house that's looking for machine operators. While I'm not unhappy at my current job, something closer to home would be nice and this place fits the bill. I was just curious about the learning curve and whether lack of experience would be an issue. I know going from mostly first shifts to second shift would be a bit of an adjustment although I am more of a night person anyways. Thanks for any help you might have.

[Antisocial_Worker]

In general, it's easy enough to learn to operate a machine. It may take a couple of days at most, in fact. In my experience, boredom is the biggest drawback to factory work. I loathe my job because of how dull it is.

[blas]

The worst part of factory jobs is repetition. Learning is interesting, training can be fun, but once you know what you're doing and you're left alone, you will most likely get very bored.

It doesn't take me long to get bored and want to learn something else.

I've been stuck at the same machine for almost a year and I want to scream. There are always days here and there where something I've never encountered before happens, but other than that, it's always the same thing. Same shit, different day.

Machines are always more intimidating looking than they really are to operate. Don't take any of my stories too seriously from my past idiot trainees. There is really nothing to it.

[Teysa]

Thank you. I'm going to put in an application on my next day off. Considering it's only six blocks away from my house, I figure it's at least worth a try. Of course being that close to work has its drawbacks too. Namely every time someone calls in dead, I'll be the one asked to cover.

[teh_blumchenkinder]

I work at a print shop, and for very large jobs, like in manufacturing, boredom does happen. However, I've developed ways to deal with this. I play role-playing games with my friends, so I put myself into a character I'm playing, and think about stuff they'd do, their dreams, their likes, etc., making new ones on occasions, replaying old ones, you get the idea. I also think about things like movies, basically making fan fiction in my head, and about what I'm going to do once I get off of work, food I want to eat, things I need to do, books I read, you get the idea. Still, I'm glad that our shop doesn't get those hunormous jobs very often. It also helps if you're a conversationalist and can talk and work at the same time-- sometimes machines and concentration have to get in the way. And this only works if the job is mindless. If you really have to focus... yick.