Please consider this more of a rant then anything else.

I am currently a business analyst for McGraw-Hill Education involved with the oh so wonderfull Oracle ERP Suite. My areas of expertise go across the modules dealing with Order Management, Subscriptions (OKS), and Service Requests (CSS).

The job is good to me, pays well, decent benefits, and the team that I work with (Business Solutions) is wonderful too. The job is a sort-of psudo-techie as we outsource our programming, however still getting our hands dirty when needed.

Usually there is a nice divided line between programmers and analysts. The analaysts are the personable, work with the customer, gather requirements etc then pass it off to the programmers. In my situation, I feel that I get the best of both worlds. Because of this psudo setup, my role consists of the analyst part and partial programmer part. However, most of the programming is strictly SQL. This means that I don't have to deal with everyday tedious programming tasks.

So what is missing? Why do I feel so bloody bored everyday? Is every office based job always boring? As you can see, I spend more then a good part of my day on TalkPHP (teehe), dodging getting 'caught' by someone realizing im doing something I am not suppose to be doing.

I hate it because everything seems like I should just be happy with everything... and yet I am not. I don't know know if it the job really is that boring... I know I have plenty to do. Perhaps man was just not meant to be contained in an office all day long. I don't know. All I know is that I need some change in my life, but I don't want to just leap frog from one job to another (after all, if that is all to gain and maybe a few extra bucks a check; I'd rather have my current team with me).

Does anyone else get like this with their job? Any thoughts on this? I want to change or rather need a change, however it would just be the same thing over and over again. I just don't want this to boil up over so much time that it just all gathers and ends up exploding, and I end up doing something incredibly irrational that could hurt myself.

I think personally I would be much happier doing freelance working on my own terms, but that seems like to big of a risk to take... but then again, maybe that risk is what I need. Not to mention the work amount is never unknown, atleast here what I have will always be consistent.

Perhaps it is my comfort that bores me?

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