I have to continue with my employment because it pays the bills but I hate it because it is completely meaningless. I have never had such a meaningless job before. I used to be passionate about what I did. Today I am mostly copy-pasting from one spreadsheet to another. The spreadsheets contain my comments about the queue of tickets. Tickets are used to order hardware - servers and filers. Service engineers need hardware, they or we order it, its gets shipped from a factory to a datacenter, unloaded and hooked up at data centers, and then software is installed onto the hardware from California.

The data centers are located in Nebraska and other middle-of-nowhere places where I have never been.

I need to keep my comments in the spreadsheets current, but some tickets have not been acted upon by the technicians in data centers so ALL I do is go into the comment, change the date on it from 1/16 to 1/18, submit the comment, copy it, and paste into the appropriate spreadsheet. Hard to be motivated.

But I have to. I cannot stop.

Not asking for advice, just sharing my frustration.

Not all days are so meaningless but today has been especially bad. But no good days.