What are some innovative or unusual ways you have combatted boredom at the office?

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Do my work...?

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In the time I've been here I've never once actually been bored. I often wonder about such ppl and wish I could get paid to do nothing like them...

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Take naps

Try to find some work and be actually successful... not rocket science

If you are in it for the long run. They will not be around. Someone senior once told me: not everyone is in banking for life. I need every analyst on the team, even if I know half of them will not be around in a year’s time...

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