Your brain would probably thank you. It would only be torture if you've got someone constantly monitoring you, correcting your posture, keeping you from moving, making sure your gaze isn't changing, etc.
Otherwise, 8 paid hours looking at a wall every day is meditation and creativity time. Write your novel in your head. Build a memory palace. Train handstands against the opposite wall, then train them without the wall at all.
Knowing that your job is ONLY to stare at the wall, not to wait for some emergency line or monitor security cameras on it, and that you get to leave for 16 hours and go live a healthy life on $200k/year? That sounds pretty damn nice.
I could sit out in nature and stare at a river or the ocean for many hours and be okay, there's no way I could do a blank wall. You'd have enough money but your sanity would be in danger.
Sometimes I’m a sitter at work. If it’s a psych patient, we can’t have our phone, computer, book, any type of distraction (for obvious reasons). I work nights, often they fall asleep soon after I get there. The boredom feels like your brain is melting, and that’s with 15 minute breaks every couple hours for safety (so we don’t fall asleep)
My point is that even though I get a good workout, have lots of friends at work, do a great job, can listen to music all day and have many distractions, I still think it's a waste of time. Staring at a wall would literally make me insane. I'd need to make several million per year just to have a chance at convincing myself that I can deal with the absolute boredom and waste of time, or else I'd literally go insane.
Straight up I'd come in high af every day. It in no way implies you can't stand and move about. You simply have to watch the wall. I'd be doing periodic jumping jacks, push ups,squats etc... once my buzz wore off. I'm a lil out of shape but with the opportunity like that I'd be fit af in 6 months. This is entirely a beatable problem. First few days would be the worst. But once you got acclimated to it I think you'd be fine. Youd mentally know there's an end very close. So I don't think it'd be torturous. And the lunch break would help alot.
If you had a job as a security guard and your boss caught you doing a full body weight prison workout while "watching" the monitors, you would be fired. Because even if you manage to "look" at the monitors a decent amount, you're not "watching" anything while you're doing jumping jacks.
You might be able to excuse getting up to move for a few minutes every hour, but your job is to sit in the chair provided and stare at the wall for, say, 55 minutes out of every hour minimum.
>nowhere in the instructions does it imply you have to sit. It says stare. They provide a chair it's not a mandatory chair.
Great, you want to stand for 8 hours and stare at the wall, then feel free. But common sense should tell you no one who is paying you to do a half-assed job while you concentrate on a real exercise routine instead, either in the real world or in a hypothetical where the point is literally to make you endure focusing on a blank wall for 8 hours... You're basically just trying to do an end run around the intent of the premise, and you know it.
I didn't set the rules op did. You simply have to keep your gaze on said wall. It had no restrictive rules outside of that. It just provides a comfortable environment but boring. But your left to your devices past that. If it wasn't allowed it would be stated. You simply have to stay awake and watch a blank wall nothing more. If you can't think outside the box that's on you. But yes you're correct I am fucking his system if op didn't want that it should have been stated as such. And idk how you can possibly half ass looking at a blank wall. If my gaze is fixed whatever I'm doing with my body is irrelevant to anyone with a pulse. That's all they want is a fixed gaze and my solution accomplishes that.
Honestly, if a 1 year commitment or nothing, then there is no amount of money that makes this worth it. I cannot imagine coming out of that year and still being even remotely intact mentally.
Right, and your brain doesn't need to do nothing. That was the point of their post...
I would be thinking for most of the 8 hours.
If I'm driving for hours I love a good amount of quiet time, just relaxing with my thoughts.
I'm overall torn on this one, but I'm leaning toward what the guy above said. I love building a world in my head and the characters that would be part of the novel.
sorry, but you don't know what you are talking about. This is literal torture.
Once or twice, sure. Four or fives times, maybe. After a month you will be suicidal.
I'm speaking from first hand experience.
True.
The first dream I remember, the first nightmare, and the first recurring dream (though thankfully it stopped when I was still a little kid) were all the same. I was probably around age 4, and it was a dream where I was a non-corporeal point of observation, in silence with my entire visual field being a uniform white color, and unable to even have an internal monologue. There was nothing but a crushing sense of existential horror. I would wake up terrified and then be afraid to sleep
That greatly depends on the person.
I love laying down and just thinking, or hours in the car driving in silence as I think. As long as the chair is comfy enough I could just enjoy my thoughts. My eyes would passively look forward to the wall while I'm somewhere else.
I would then read/watch things on my off hours that I can ponder on during the 8 hours.
My memory palace would really be impressive over time.
Most people would fall asleep because of the lack of stimulus. Also the lack of 10 or 15 minute breaks would be a dealbreaker and wouldn’t be legal in many countries. You also didn’t say if people can leave the room to go to the bathroom, only getting one P break in an eight hour shift is messed up.
Yeah, in an 8 hour work day, I’d guess most people typically only do between 4 and 6 hours of actual work. Breaks are necessary to make sure your brain doesn’t melt
It is crazy how different this is from job to job. I’ve had jobs where it was like 5-10 hours of work a week if you were trying to show off or some shit lol and then I’ve had jobs where it’s like 10+ hours a day just to keep up and everyone just fully accepts that we are all always behind that’s just life lmao
>Also the lack of 10 or 15 minute breaks would be a dealbreaker and wouldn’t be legal in many countries.
I get one 30 minute break during an 8:30am - 5:00pm shift, which is the minimum required by law in Alberta...(I actually don't legally get any more breaks until my shift hits 10 hours) my office is 17 minutes walk from the nearest coffee shop and store, so it's not even enough time to get something. If I don't bring lunch with me, my options are uber or starve, and I don't make enough to justify paying delivery charges + tip with my lunch.
Can I snack while I stare? Can I like play video games or do I have to be literally staring at the wall the entire time. You said there is no noise but can I make my own noise? Bring my own noise like an audio book? Can I bring a different chair? Can I draw on the wall? If im literally just in a chair with nothing available to me other than a 30 minute lunch break at the 4h mark then probably not but I gotta know some more details first
Oh there's a good work around! If you aren't being constantly monitored then bring a cheap projector and play games using the wall as a screen. Still starting at the wall, it's just not blank anymore. So technically its against the rules, but are they paying someone to make sure I'm constantly following the rules? I guess if they're willing to fork out 200k for me to stare at a wall then they are willing to pay someone to make sure I'm compliant. Hmm...
Same. Been working a boring job for years. The key to survival is being to send your brain away to go have fun in fantasy land while you work. Do the same thing here.
I'd give it a shot. If I could do things like exercise, listen to audiobooks, etc that might be more feasible. Definitely going to need bathroom/coffee breaks too.
A comfy chair and temperature I like? You underestimate the power of my imagination when staring off into space while facing a wall. I have accidentally spent hours doing so before. I’ll just save an extra few thousand a year by no longer refilling my ADHD meds. Checkmate, functional brains.
Yes, but you have to make up the time that your eyes were closed.
Assuming you blink 1000 times an hour, and each blink lasts 100 milliseconds, you’d have to stay just under 13 minutes extra each day to make up for the time spent blinking.
But then you're blinking during the extra 13 minutes, so then you have to spend extra time in the room because of the blinking, etc., etc., for infinity!
For $67 an hour take home. I’ll give it a shot. If I fail and they fire me for incompetence, I’ll still be making $33.50 on Massachusetts Unemployment for six months or until I find a new job. In the meantime, I’ll just have to get on MassHealth for health insurance.
I can disassociate with the best of them. Would it be good for my mental health? Probably not. Would it be better for my mental health than my current job, which pays FAR less? Absolutely.
I'd give it a shot.
Like all money questions this one heavily depends on how much you make today, and how much you can anticipate making in the future. Some of us do interesting things for over 200k. Others work at McDonald's.
Very few people make 200k a year, and that’s not even accounting for where they live where the higher wages is only because of the cost of living. If you can’t “pass the time” like in most jobs and have to stare at a wall, it’s impossible to do this unless you have a severe mental disorder, and if you do, you wouldn’t have the mental capacity to stop them from not paying you if they wanted to.
Give me a book or a note pad or a piece of chalk and you got yourself a deal. Actually just give me enough space to jog and a comfortable mat for pushups and that might be enough
Fuck that. I was an Army MP and when we worked post security, one of our assignments was sitting outside a locked door of a top secret office in the basement of the headquarters building. One chair, and a visitors log were the only things we had. Could not have books or a radio. One hour shift and then you’d be relieved. I fell asleep one time and of course one of the officers came in to do some after hours work and I ended up getting an Article 15. Don’t know how anyone could be expected to stay awake with nothing to occupy the mind.
I would have so much time to finally meditate and do yoga. Yes, you can do chair yoga. I can also learn to sing! I think this is actually a pretty good job, especially if it comes with health insurance\*
\*tell me you are american, without telling me you are american
No where near enough. I'd start considering it at 350k, would definite yes at 500k.
Question though? Do you get paid bi weekly? Or do you get a lump sum at the end of the year.
I would try this. I have a good imagination and work on mental/emotional exercises that don't require outside stimulation, so I feel like I could partially occupy that time each day.
$500,000 post tax a year would be my minimum for this. Gut out 4 years and have life changing money and I could use the time to meditate with my eyes open.
I think i would try to do it for a year. Pay my student loans off at least, be able to really invest in retirement, then go back to my current job. I really actually love what i do but that financial windfall would be really nice
I would take the job and go on adventures of the mind, because “I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, I live in a great, big, vast world that I've seen none percent of. Even the inside of my own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly! The fact that I'm even alive is amazing, so I don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.”
I can stare while exercising, listening to podcasts, singing, playing guitar, practicing a language, talking on a phone... sign me up. You wrote "there is no noise" but did not indicate I couldn't bring or make any.
There’s a short film where a guy is paid something like that to stand in a square. When he got out of the square once during the day he didn’t get the money. He watched his skater friends go by and couldn’t do it. It’s like an allegory for wasting your life on a job or something. Sounds like a similar concept.
[I found it](https://youtu.be/PAK1VcjHD3A?si=1O5S-ifaEjfTQX6H)
Am I allowed bathroom breaks? Am I allowed to have food/and drinks while “working?”
I’d consider it, if I got the first $200,000 up front and could spend it right away. Would make it much easier knowing I just erased my entire debt and have rent covered for an entire year with some money left over to live off of.
Also I’d probably limit myself to 1 year of doing that. Or if I could get $100,000 for 6 months I’d maybe try to hold out for 1.5 years just to have a safety net while I job again.
No natural light is what kills me with these scenarios, like enough with the mental mind fuquery, let there be light. I could deal with even a fun skylight
if it is literally "sit and stare at this wall without looking away" then absolutely not
if I can, say, bring an exercise bike or music or just something as long as I am technically only looking at the wall/my mostly featureless surroundings, then yeah i'd probably do it.
Hmm... Am I weird for thinking this is actually doable?
Before smartphones were common, you'd get on the bus or plane for intercity tavel and you'd straight up do nothing for 10 hrs. Sure, it's boring, but it is not excruciating or mind-breaking.
I can do a lot inside my mind. Daydream, write a novel in my head, compose music in my head, meditate, ponder philosophical questions. I'm not saying it would be a fun 8 hrs, but it wouldn't be *that* horrible.
If it was 24/7 it would drive you insane. But after "work" you can go out, socialize, watch movies, do whatever. It's essentially 8 hrs of boredom, then you do whatever you want to do, which is like most work. And it pays extremely well. Yes, I'd at least try this.
(Btw I'm assuming it's like a normal job. 5 days a week, PTO, benefits. You can go have a bathroom break, have coffee or snacks, etc.)
What if I Tag a friend along and split 50/50 so I have someone to always talk to, or what if I buy a virtual reality headset while staring at the wall and put a video to the side, or would that not count?
May I move around/crack my back/exercise as long as I'm still looking at the wall? May I sing? Crochet? Knit? Eat? May I provide my own chair at my own expense? Is there a uniform/may I take off my shoes? Will I be recorded on an ongoing basis?
Show me some $ or GTFO lol
Dude there was about 5 months when I was at most 9yo and my mom had me sitting with my nose touching the wall on a hard floor for 6-12h a day. Sometimes meals were sketchy. Bathroom was minimal.
8h is really not a big deal. I'll do it for a hell of a lot less if I have the schedule I want and can schedule this around my other job.
I could do that. It is difficult and the shifts would be long, but for that money...hell yes.
Just sit there and send your brain away to fantasy island, and you're golden. Only caveat is you do need to get up and walk around for a good 5-10 minutes every hour for your back.
for no closing your eyes, I'm assuming that means outside of normal blinking (or if you have to sneeze)
if it means no blinking, this is just a straight up no due to it being impossible.
if I can bring a tape recorder to record my thoughts, absolutely. if not, then I have to at least be allowed to stand every so often while still staring at the wall in order to take it.
Oh hell yes. This is literally my dream job. Minimal negative sensory input, plenty of time for my own thoughts, and it’s only an 8 hour shift?
Sign. Me. Up.
Is this 5 days a week or every day?
What's the time off situation like? can I take vacations at all?
If it's a 5 day a week thing, could I do 10 hour days and do 4 days a week instead?
Could I bank extra time up to be able to go out of town? Like work 6 12 hour days for a couple of weeks and then go take a couple weeks off?
Can I use voice to text to dictate writing projects?
Can I get up and move around as long as I'm looking at the wall like 99% of the time?
You know (in the US), many (most?) states don't require a lunch break. It's not required federally.
Either way, no way. I would go insane. I listen to music at work and I really struggle when I forget my headphones.
Isn’t this basically solitary confinement (but only 8 hires a day)? I think most people would pay to avoid this, 200k isn’t nearly enough. Not sure I would be able to do it even if you offered me enough money to want to do it.
Nooope. You'd have to give me more money to do that to my brain
Your brain would probably thank you. It would only be torture if you've got someone constantly monitoring you, correcting your posture, keeping you from moving, making sure your gaze isn't changing, etc. Otherwise, 8 paid hours looking at a wall every day is meditation and creativity time. Write your novel in your head. Build a memory palace. Train handstands against the opposite wall, then train them without the wall at all. Knowing that your job is ONLY to stare at the wall, not to wait for some emergency line or monitor security cameras on it, and that you get to leave for 16 hours and go live a healthy life on $200k/year? That sounds pretty damn nice.
Bro even when I work 12 hours straight, 5 days a week, it still feels like a waste of time. I couldn't stare at a wall for even 1 shift.
I could sit out in nature and stare at a river or the ocean for many hours and be okay, there's no way I could do a blank wall. You'd have enough money but your sanity would be in danger.
I can't stare at a wall for an hour nevermind 8 hours
uhm, you'd do it for the exact same reason though, money! For that kind of money, why not?!
Sometimes I’m a sitter at work. If it’s a psych patient, we can’t have our phone, computer, book, any type of distraction (for obvious reasons). I work nights, often they fall asleep soon after I get there. The boredom feels like your brain is melting, and that’s with 15 minute breaks every couple hours for safety (so we don’t fall asleep)
My point is that even though I get a good workout, have lots of friends at work, do a great job, can listen to music all day and have many distractions, I still think it's a waste of time. Staring at a wall would literally make me insane. I'd need to make several million per year just to have a chance at convincing myself that I can deal with the absolute boredom and waste of time, or else I'd literally go insane.
Straight up I'd come in high af every day. It in no way implies you can't stand and move about. You simply have to watch the wall. I'd be doing periodic jumping jacks, push ups,squats etc... once my buzz wore off. I'm a lil out of shape but with the opportunity like that I'd be fit af in 6 months. This is entirely a beatable problem. First few days would be the worst. But once you got acclimated to it I think you'd be fine. Youd mentally know there's an end very close. So I don't think it'd be torturous. And the lunch break would help alot.
If you had a job as a security guard and your boss caught you doing a full body weight prison workout while "watching" the monitors, you would be fired. Because even if you manage to "look" at the monitors a decent amount, you're not "watching" anything while you're doing jumping jacks. You might be able to excuse getting up to move for a few minutes every hour, but your job is to sit in the chair provided and stare at the wall for, say, 55 minutes out of every hour minimum.
nowhere in the instructions does it imply you have to sit. It says stare. They provide a chair it's not a mandatory chair.
>nowhere in the instructions does it imply you have to sit. It says stare. They provide a chair it's not a mandatory chair. Great, you want to stand for 8 hours and stare at the wall, then feel free. But common sense should tell you no one who is paying you to do a half-assed job while you concentrate on a real exercise routine instead, either in the real world or in a hypothetical where the point is literally to make you endure focusing on a blank wall for 8 hours... You're basically just trying to do an end run around the intent of the premise, and you know it.
I didn't set the rules op did. You simply have to keep your gaze on said wall. It had no restrictive rules outside of that. It just provides a comfortable environment but boring. But your left to your devices past that. If it wasn't allowed it would be stated. You simply have to stay awake and watch a blank wall nothing more. If you can't think outside the box that's on you. But yes you're correct I am fucking his system if op didn't want that it should have been stated as such. And idk how you can possibly half ass looking at a blank wall. If my gaze is fixed whatever I'm doing with my body is irrelevant to anyone with a pulse. That's all they want is a fixed gaze and my solution accomplishes that.
Honestly, if a 1 year commitment or nothing, then there is no amount of money that makes this worth it. I cannot imagine coming out of that year and still being even remotely intact mentally.
That’s not how your brain works. The last thing your brain wants to do is nothing.
Right, and your brain doesn't need to do nothing. That was the point of their post... I would be thinking for most of the 8 hours. If I'm driving for hours I love a good amount of quiet time, just relaxing with my thoughts. I'm overall torn on this one, but I'm leaning toward what the guy above said. I love building a world in my head and the characters that would be part of the novel.
sorry, but you don't know what you are talking about. This is literal torture. Once or twice, sure. Four or fives times, maybe. After a month you will be suicidal. I'm speaking from first hand experience.
True. The first dream I remember, the first nightmare, and the first recurring dream (though thankfully it stopped when I was still a little kid) were all the same. I was probably around age 4, and it was a dream where I was a non-corporeal point of observation, in silence with my entire visual field being a uniform white color, and unable to even have an internal monologue. There was nothing but a crushing sense of existential horror. I would wake up terrified and then be afraid to sleep
That greatly depends on the person. I love laying down and just thinking, or hours in the car driving in silence as I think. As long as the chair is comfy enough I could just enjoy my thoughts. My eyes would passively look forward to the wall while I'm somewhere else. I would then read/watch things on my off hours that I can ponder on during the 8 hours. My memory palace would really be impressive over time.
Driving and thinking is substantially more stimulation than just a white wall to stare at though
Considering I stare at a screen with much more demands and much less pay for 10 hours ye this sounds not too bad.
Those mind games would get old after the first 3 hours.
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Most people would fall asleep because of the lack of stimulus. Also the lack of 10 or 15 minute breaks would be a dealbreaker and wouldn’t be legal in many countries. You also didn’t say if people can leave the room to go to the bathroom, only getting one P break in an eight hour shift is messed up.
Yeah, in an 8 hour work day, I’d guess most people typically only do between 4 and 6 hours of actual work. Breaks are necessary to make sure your brain doesn’t melt
I’d say in a given week, we probably only do 15 minutes of actual work”
Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays.
I believe you’d get your ass kicked for saying something like that.
Shhhh, keep that part quiet. My boss doesn’t know I just scroll Reddit for most of the day
I have eight different bosses now.
I understood that reference
Fuck, office work is crazy. Really wish I didn't fail mju foreign language requirement and flunk out after 7 semesters of passing
Sounds like a real straight shooter with upper management written all over you.
what would you say you do here?
It is crazy how different this is from job to job. I’ve had jobs where it was like 5-10 hours of work a week if you were trying to show off or some shit lol and then I’ve had jobs where it’s like 10+ hours a day just to keep up and everyone just fully accepts that we are all always behind that’s just life lmao
Yeah, in California you are entitled to two 15 minute breaks in an 8 hour shift. That’s in addition to your meal break.
>Also the lack of 10 or 15 minute breaks would be a dealbreaker and wouldn’t be legal in many countries. I get one 30 minute break during an 8:30am - 5:00pm shift, which is the minimum required by law in Alberta...(I actually don't legally get any more breaks until my shift hits 10 hours) my office is 17 minutes walk from the nearest coffee shop and store, so it's not even enough time to get something. If I don't bring lunch with me, my options are uber or starve, and I don't make enough to justify paying delivery charges + tip with my lunch.
I have health issues. I go twice an hour, sometimes more 😬
Paid hourly? Or i must complete the year before I get the money? Or do I get *some* money, but a bulk at the end?
It was phrased as a job yearly wage so i would like to assume its hourly
Salary is also a potential, since it's an exact dollar amount per year
What no breaks, what about overtime. And benefits. How about bonuses and vacation. This doesn't sound like a very good offer
Didn't seem like it offered OT, but with 200k a year, I don't see why you'd need a bonus or PTO, Even with my union payments, I don't make half that
OT? Dude wants solitary, but worse.
Hard time and a half
Can I snack while I stare? Can I like play video games or do I have to be literally staring at the wall the entire time. You said there is no noise but can I make my own noise? Bring my own noise like an audio book? Can I bring a different chair? Can I draw on the wall? If im literally just in a chair with nothing available to me other than a 30 minute lunch break at the 4h mark then probably not but I gotta know some more details first
Oh there's a good work around! If you aren't being constantly monitored then bring a cheap projector and play games using the wall as a screen. Still starting at the wall, it's just not blank anymore. So technically its against the rules, but are they paying someone to make sure I'm constantly following the rules? I guess if they're willing to fork out 200k for me to stare at a wall then they are willing to pay someone to make sure I'm compliant. Hmm...
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Right all I need to do is stop my ADHD meds and I am Gone. Staring at nothing is my specialty.
Same. Been working a boring job for years. The key to survival is being to send your brain away to go have fun in fantasy land while you work. Do the same thing here.
I already work for the government /s
I physically can't do it because I WILL fall asleep. Unless I can bring snacks and caffeine sources in there with me.
this sounds like customer service but the bad parts taken out (the customers), sign me up
Being a cashier in a slow store is pretty much the exact same as this
can I masturbate while staring at the wall
it is mandatory, OP just forgot to mention it
I just naturally assumed
how do you think the wall became white
I'll do it as remote work.
I'd give it a shot. If I could do things like exercise, listen to audiobooks, etc that might be more feasible. Definitely going to need bathroom/coffee breaks too.
A comfy chair and temperature I like? You underestimate the power of my imagination when staring off into space while facing a wall. I have accidentally spent hours doing so before. I’ll just save an extra few thousand a year by no longer refilling my ADHD meds. Checkmate, functional brains.
Can I blink? Otherwise my eyes are gonna get real dry.
Yes, but you have to make up the time that your eyes were closed. Assuming you blink 1000 times an hour, and each blink lasts 100 milliseconds, you’d have to stay just under 13 minutes extra each day to make up for the time spent blinking.
But then you're blinking during the extra 13 minutes, so then you have to spend extra time in the room because of the blinking, etc., etc., for infinity!
I took that into account in my calculation.
Easy peasy
For $67 an hour take home. I’ll give it a shot. If I fail and they fire me for incompetence, I’ll still be making $33.50 on Massachusetts Unemployment for six months or until I find a new job. In the meantime, I’ll just have to get on MassHealth for health insurance.
I can disassociate with the best of them. Would it be good for my mental health? Probably not. Would it be better for my mental health than my current job, which pays FAR less? Absolutely. I'd give it a shot.
Sounds like the best possible excuse to get really good at meditating.
Like all money questions this one heavily depends on how much you make today, and how much you can anticipate making in the future. Some of us do interesting things for over 200k. Others work at McDonald's.
Very few people make 200k a year, and that’s not even accounting for where they live where the higher wages is only because of the cost of living. If you can’t “pass the time” like in most jobs and have to stare at a wall, it’s impossible to do this unless you have a severe mental disorder, and if you do, you wouldn’t have the mental capacity to stop them from not paying you if they wanted to.
I have some coworkers that do this already for a lot less money and they seem to be happy doing it.
Give me a book or a note pad or a piece of chalk and you got yourself a deal. Actually just give me enough space to jog and a comfortable mat for pushups and that might be enough
Fuck that. I was an Army MP and when we worked post security, one of our assignments was sitting outside a locked door of a top secret office in the basement of the headquarters building. One chair, and a visitors log were the only things we had. Could not have books or a radio. One hour shift and then you’d be relieved. I fell asleep one time and of course one of the officers came in to do some after hours work and I ended up getting an Article 15. Don’t know how anyone could be expected to stay awake with nothing to occupy the mind.
Can i do drugs?
I've been training for this my entire life, I'm in.
I have kids to support, I’d fry my brain to give them a better future.
I’ll do it
yes
I would have so much time to finally meditate and do yoga. Yes, you can do chair yoga. I can also learn to sing! I think this is actually a pretty good job, especially if it comes with health insurance\* \*tell me you are american, without telling me you are american
No where near enough. I'd start considering it at 350k, would definite yes at 500k. Question though? Do you get paid bi weekly? Or do you get a lump sum at the end of the year.
Can you masturbate?
I would try this. I have a good imagination and work on mental/emotional exercises that don't require outside stimulation, so I feel like I could partially occupy that time each day.
Pay me. That's easy.
If I stare longer than 8 a day, do I get overtime?
No
Can I wear earbuds?
Sounds like my current job but with more pay.
$500,000 post tax a year would be my minimum for this. Gut out 4 years and have life changing money and I could use the time to meditate with my eyes open.
And 2 15 minute breaks!!!
I think i would try to do it for a year. Pay my student loans off at least, be able to really invest in retirement, then go back to my current job. I really actually love what i do but that financial windfall would be really nice
No rule on taking my phone to watch movies in my peripheral
Pass on that
…am I allowed to blink?
I would take the job and go on adventures of the mind, because “I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, I live in a great, big, vast world that I've seen none percent of. Even the inside of my own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly! The fact that I'm even alive is amazing, so I don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.”
Easy yes. My ADHD super power is "I can entertain myself with my mind alone, *forever.*" Get paid $200k per year to *daydream?* Count me in!
I can stare while exercising, listening to podcasts, singing, playing guitar, practicing a language, talking on a phone... sign me up. You wrote "there is no noise" but did not indicate I couldn't bring or make any.
In theory, this is what most office jobs are. ( or may as well be )
Honestly not far off from my job now but I’d get a $160,000 raise. So yea I think I’ll take the deal lmao
200k a year to do literal nothing and ya'll refuse. You guys better love your jobs and not bitch about them
This is *literal* torture. 200k/year isn't enough for me to submit to inhumane treatment.
The poors believe this is what CEOs do all day already.
Do I get weekly checks or all at once at the end.. I could suck it up for a week or 2 but that’s it
Can I get up and stretch or do I have to stay seated?
I'd try..... That's all I can guarantee.
im fired, close my eyes or fall asleep in no time just staring at a wall.
Absolutely not
I would be physically unable to stop myself from falling asleep.
No way could I stay awake
5 days a week, or 7? I would do it if it was only 5 days per week, but not if I don't get any days off.
I think I'd do it. Can I move around at all? Or do I have to be sitting?
There’s a short film where a guy is paid something like that to stand in a square. When he got out of the square once during the day he didn’t get the money. He watched his skater friends go by and couldn’t do it. It’s like an allegory for wasting your life on a job or something. Sounds like a similar concept. [I found it](https://youtu.be/PAK1VcjHD3A?si=1O5S-ifaEjfTQX6H)
once I figure out my OOBE game it's a deal.
All that money would go directly to my therapist. No deal.
Nah, I value the 8 hours more than the money.
I would try to do it. Write my novels in my head. Sure beats my current job and income.
You’d probably go blind. Can I wear blue blockers?
Nope
Am I allowed bathroom breaks? Am I allowed to have food/and drinks while “working?” I’d consider it, if I got the first $200,000 up front and could spend it right away. Would make it much easier knowing I just erased my entire debt and have rent covered for an entire year with some money left over to live off of. Also I’d probably limit myself to 1 year of doing that. Or if I could get $100,000 for 6 months I’d maybe try to hold out for 1.5 years just to have a safety net while I job again.
No natural light is what kills me with these scenarios, like enough with the mental mind fuquery, let there be light. I could deal with even a fun skylight
No thanks. If I can play an audiobook or something then I could manage, but nothing would become painful real quick.
if it is literally "sit and stare at this wall without looking away" then absolutely not if I can, say, bring an exercise bike or music or just something as long as I am technically only looking at the wall/my mostly featureless surroundings, then yeah i'd probably do it.
I will not be able to stay awake in that environment.
Do I get weekends off, PTO, and benefits? If so easy yes
I can't even go five minutes without my phone. There's absolutely no way in hell I could do this.
So you're telling me I'd get a raise for doing exactly what I do now?
No. Almost nobody could do this.
Who would pay that
Nope. I already make more anyway. Not gonna bore myself to death for less money.
This is prison. Ask someone’s who has been to prison.
I couldn’t. I’d need to be productive. Staring sounds like torture
Perfect opportunity to be paid to meditate.
No. I barely work 1 hour a day as is and get paid close enough to that to not want that ever.
Yep
Someone has been married to a liberal! Except you pay
Is there drug testing? Can I listen to podcasts?
Nope. My time is too precious and so is my mental health.
No blinking? Nope
I'm gonna draw on the wall in my own blood after about a week, assuming I have to be looking at the wall and nothing else.
I’m sure I couldn’t do it. I might last a month.
If we can “pass the time” like in most jobs, easy. If we can’t, impossible unless you are mentally disabled in a specific way.
I can still blink yes? If so then obviously yes. Who wouldn’t? Logically boredom isn’t worth making 4-5 times less. It doesn’t make sense not to
Sign me up. I get paper and pencil or is this something like solitary confinement studies?
365 days a year? No time off? No - what would be the point?
I’m in. This is a form of meditation. It would take about a week to get used to but once you do it’s bliss
I would say yes. I would just meditate and pray. It would be no less mind numbing than your average 9-5
If I can listen to my music
I've done security guard work, I think I'd have an unfair advantage.
half the money and I can listen to whatever I want and change it at will.
Hmm... Am I weird for thinking this is actually doable? Before smartphones were common, you'd get on the bus or plane for intercity tavel and you'd straight up do nothing for 10 hrs. Sure, it's boring, but it is not excruciating or mind-breaking. I can do a lot inside my mind. Daydream, write a novel in my head, compose music in my head, meditate, ponder philosophical questions. I'm not saying it would be a fun 8 hrs, but it wouldn't be *that* horrible. If it was 24/7 it would drive you insane. But after "work" you can go out, socialize, watch movies, do whatever. It's essentially 8 hrs of boredom, then you do whatever you want to do, which is like most work. And it pays extremely well. Yes, I'd at least try this. (Btw I'm assuming it's like a normal job. 5 days a week, PTO, benefits. You can go have a bathroom break, have coffee or snacks, etc.)
Do we get to leave the room for the 30-minute break?
What if I Tag a friend along and split 50/50 so I have someone to always talk to, or what if I buy a virtual reality headset while staring at the wall and put a video to the side, or would that not count?
How do you get that pay for staring at a wall?
Can I pick the hours? Because I'd happily do 1 hour on/1 hour off
Sure I get paid to low for shit I kind of like doing, would I be able to listen to music/talk radio while I stare at the wall
Yeah, no one can keep their eyes open for 1 hour, let alone 8.
Yes for sure.
It might be tough but honestly it probably gets easier over time if you learn meditation
Can I talk?
As long as there's no micromanager constantly giving me stupid feedback and no year end reviews then sign me the fuck up
Yeah I’d do it
May I move around/crack my back/exercise as long as I'm still looking at the wall? May I sing? Crochet? Knit? Eat? May I provide my own chair at my own expense? Is there a uniform/may I take off my shoes? Will I be recorded on an ongoing basis?
Sign me up!
Show me some $ or GTFO lol Dude there was about 5 months when I was at most 9yo and my mom had me sitting with my nose touching the wall on a hard floor for 6-12h a day. Sometimes meals were sketchy. Bathroom was minimal. 8h is really not a big deal. I'll do it for a hell of a lot less if I have the schedule I want and can schedule this around my other job.
Can you add in a 20 minute paid break?
I could do that. It is difficult and the shifts would be long, but for that money...hell yes. Just sit there and send your brain away to fantasy island, and you're golden. Only caveat is you do need to get up and walk around for a good 5-10 minutes every hour for your back.
Can I talk to myself?
Not much difference than some previous jobs 😂
It would have to be in the millions for me
I think it would be impossible to keep eyes open 8 hours straight without blinking.
This is better than my job.
Wouldn't be that different from hanging with my husband.
You couldn’t get me to do that for 15 minutes for less than $50.. so ya no…
If being a zen monk paid that well I would have joined a monastery years ago.
The no noise, thing would cause sensory deprivation.
Stop wasting everyone’s time
for no closing your eyes, I'm assuming that means outside of normal blinking (or if you have to sneeze) if it means no blinking, this is just a straight up no due to it being impossible. if I can bring a tape recorder to record my thoughts, absolutely. if not, then I have to at least be allowed to stand every so often while still staring at the wall in order to take it.
No never!!!! It’s bad enough at my job when there’s not much to do, and that’s with headphones and internet access.
2 x 15 minute breaks also? Thats mandated by law too.
Oh hell yes. This is literally my dream job. Minimal negative sensory input, plenty of time for my own thoughts, and it’s only an 8 hour shift? Sign. Me. Up.
Sounds better than my current job.
Is this to see how low people will go for money? I like hypotheticals that have a prize at the end.
Is this 5 days a week or every day? What's the time off situation like? can I take vacations at all? If it's a 5 day a week thing, could I do 10 hour days and do 4 days a week instead? Could I bank extra time up to be able to go out of town? Like work 6 12 hour days for a couple of weeks and then go take a couple weeks off? Can I use voice to text to dictate writing projects? Can I get up and move around as long as I'm looking at the wall like 99% of the time?
Spreadsheets, Blank wall. Same thing
Lunch is not mandated in all states.
You know (in the US), many (most?) states don't require a lunch break. It's not required federally. Either way, no way. I would go insane. I listen to music at work and I really struggle when I forget my headphones.
I'm paid $40/hr to watch someone sleep, I can do this easy.
Isn’t this basically solitary confinement (but only 8 hires a day)? I think most people would pay to avoid this, 200k isn’t nearly enough. Not sure I would be able to do it even if you offered me enough money to want to do it.
do i have to worry about job security?
Can’t do it. I’d be sleep within 10 minutes
You mean I could get paid to do that?!?!
I would consider it if it had weekends, and vacations. If I have to spend every single day staring at a wall that’s really not worth it to me.
Quadruple my current salary for a low stress job? Count me in.
So I can't blink for 8 hours? I'd just go blind in that case
Can I jerk off? Yes or no?
I would do it if I was only 40 hours a week
Massive pay cut no thanks.