[Secretum]

I've just graduated from college with a BS in biology and psychology, and have started my first "real" job. I'm a lab assistant in a biology lab. It sounds like it should be interesting work, but I mostly do the same thing everyday. I think the hardest part is the fact that it is 8 solid hours of doing the same thing; at least classes in college were limited to an hour and fifteen minutes!
I feel really guilty because I find myself checking facebook very fifteen minutes just to do something different. I'm "working" right now. I know that it is wrong to do things other than work at work.

I'm scared that all jobs will be like this. I hope to go to med school. What if I put forth all the effort to become a doctor, just to be bored with it? Anything that involves a lot of time tends to bore me-long lab sessions in college, my new job, I even find it difficult to watch movies because most are 2 hours long. I have ADHD, so maybe that's why I get bored so easily.

What can I do to make the 8 hours go by faster, and give my boss the time and effort he deserves?

I have the same problem Secretum. But my boredom doesn't come from ADHD, but from the fact that once I conquer a skill, I get bored with it.

The only thing that I really do is to make a list of everything that I have to get done everyday, and just force myself to do the work.

[recentdiscovery]

Can you guys listen to music/headphones?

Honestly I used to do very monotonous work myself for several years. Just keep in mind you won't be doing the same thing forever, that's the case with a lot of entry-level jobs like that. Now i've got so many things to do and have so many hats sometimes I wish I could go back to working and not thinking about it for a day

I used to internet in short periods where I was waiting for something to happen (test finish, etc) so it didn't really impact my work. FWIW i'm at work right now myself... but I know i'll get all my work done today so who cares if i'm on here for 30 minutes or whatever. My boss doesn't care as long as the work gets done, not sure what the environment is there.

As far as getting bored with the work I just used to play games to change the process to make it better/faster so it was at least somewhat different, but i'm not sure if you can do that.