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ANFSCD: Would you take a £ job requiring you to sit in a pitch black room and do nothing 8hrs a day?

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  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,853
    No, but you're free to make a mess lol

    Remember, you can more, or exercise, but you must remain sitting for the period.
  • mickc
    mickc Posts: 573
    This job would be perfect for a mushroom.
  • Powell Is Pleasant
    Powell Is Pleasant Posts: 1,443
    I might do it, but I'd spend all of my waking hours outside of the room listening to The Mars Volta on full volume, while staring at a fire through a kaleidoscope. And eating lemons.
  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,853
    That's specifically ruled out in the contract ;-)
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,346
    No. When I worked in an office I used to hate waiting for 1pm just go to lunch, and I was just on the internet all that time anyway. But in a dark room? No way.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    Being kept in the dark ! Get yourselves over to the PV doom and gloom thread.
  • Norfolk_Addick
    Norfolk_Addick Posts: 2,289
    Was going to say yes, what a silly question, til somebody above pointed out no fag breaks. I assume its a non smoking building?
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,346
    Wait, I think I saw this job advertised for greenwich council while I was there!
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    So is this a newly established post or has the previous incumbent been 1) promoted
    2) gone mad
    3) caught something nasty and retired on health grounds?
    I think we should be told!
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,750
    This is the kind of challenge that at first sounds possible to accomplish but once you get thinking about it.........

    I think that by the end of it you'd be spending the 30 grand a week either having a good time to make up for the brain numbing boredom 'at work', or on psychiatrist bills or drugs.
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  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,364
    Not in a million years could I do it. I hate boredom and crave stimulation. I remember my Psychology degree at Uni where we learned about an experiment that sounded similar to this I recall. Done many years ago when there wasn't so many ethical restraints. After about a week, the participants were actually going mental.

    You would go home and sit in darkness/go to sleep. I honestly don't think ANYONE could do it for ANY money in the world.
  • stackitsteve
    stackitsteve Posts: 12,102
    Honestly believe nobody would be able to do this without going insane in 3 to 4 weeks tops.
    But i'd have a good go.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    8 hours in pitch black would seem a lot longer. Not sure anyone could do this.
  • johnny73
    johnny73 Posts: 4,567
    A day would feel like a week, a week like a month, a month like a year etc. No one could survive this job.
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    Sorry, no breaks, toilet or otherwise. Do your business before you go in for the day, or just do it in the room. Every night the room is cleaned to its original condition, ready for the next day.
    Am I allowed to play with myself?
    If so I think I could manage it !
  • CrayAddick
    CrayAddick Posts: 3,913
    Is this an actual job for a russian lab ;)
  • mascot88
    mascot88 Posts: 9,616
    No way...
  • Siv_in_Norfolk
    Siv_in_Norfolk Posts: 4,057
    the only way i could imagine handling it is if i somehow became a yogic master or some such who was capable of entering meditative trances for long periods
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,332
    Isn't this why Winston Bogarde joined Chelsea?
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    yes, you could find enlightenment
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  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    edited June 2012
    I'd absolutely do it. We learn the art of meditation during Tai Jutsu training.
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,116
    It's impossible.
  • Alex Wright
    Alex Wright Posts: 8,214
    curious question Lookie

    Is this some kind of psychological experiment? I think certain organisations use this type of sensory deprivation method as an interrogation tool.

    I would fear for my mental health after a few hours.
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    Am I allowed to take drugs?
  • C.Walsh'sLoveChild
    C.Walsh'sLoveChild Posts: 3,334
    What was the point of the question Master?
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,168
    Any truth in the rumour that this is what the board wanted Peter Varney to do from now on and he told them to stuff it?
  • MattD
    MattD Posts: 1,530
    Not much difference between this and doing nights at sainsburys so yes.
  • JaShea99
    JaShea99 Posts: 5,456
    This is so weird, I was having a very similar discussion with someone at work the other day. I was trying to make the point that it was not all about the money, which he couldn't see at his ripe age of 19 (tbh neither could I). So I said but would you take a job for 100k doing nothing except sitting in a room for 8 hours a day? People's answers are interesting and your scenario is different because as people say you could retire after that year, but the number of people saying no proves that money means nothing if you're bored/unstimulated or just generally unhappy. I think you realise that the older you get.

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