The effects of jobs with no thinking involved!
Even though the job itself is not the direct cause of some behaviors in some jobs, but how is it that some people in some jobs behave completely differently than others?
Of course, the direct cause is usually the peer pressure. After all, most of us try to blend in and the result of that is to bend ourselves in a way that matches the loudest behavior in the room. For example if someone starts to be funny and the room was just doing nothing, everyone suddenly wants to get involved.
Peer pressure itself is not bad nor it's considered good. You're welcome to fight the peer pressure and it's usually recommended because it makes you rethink every little thing and thinking about the philosophy of what you're doing; it makes you a smarter person.
The result of not thinking
I'm not sure if "not thinking" is even possible; after all, we even see dreams in our sleeps and our brains even work harder in our sleep, let alone when we're awake.
The thing is, we tend to think negatively by default and that's the root of lots of problems. Controlling your thoughts are hard enough even when there's no distractions, let alone in our age that everyone tries to steal our attention somehow; the whole business model of some of the richest corporations in our time is based on advertising after all!
So if you don't control your thoughts, what will?
Some of them are listed here:
The environment: try going in a jungle and see if you think about the same things that you do when you're in a concert!
The past: your brain likes to process everything, so it does it when it has time! Sometimes it's useless to do so, but you gotta learn to stop yourself from overdoing it!
The future: your brain, likes to be ready for the future as well, but you gotta learn to think about the future that you can control, not those that are not possible to control!
Other people: other people can change your train of thoughts by even walking in the room; I should've merged this one with the "environment" section but I didn't because people are the reason why we do so many things and sometimes they are involved in the goal and sometimes are distraction. For example, your friend is a distraction when he/she is on a break and you're not and he/she wants to chat but (s)he might be able to help you out; so what's it gonna be?? Things can get tricky when others are involved.
Eliminating the distraction requires you to control your environment, the people around you, and finally, your thoughts.
Controlling your environment might be as easy as putting your phone on silent or as hard as working day and night for years in order to get enough money so you can move away to a new, calmer neighborhood.
But eliminating mental distractions may not be that easy. There are some tricks though:
Keep your brain busy by scheduling and planning your day.
Distract yourself when you start to think about something you can't control. The more you do it, the easier it gets. Distracting yourself (your thoughts) over and over again is the key to self control. All you have to do is to start thinking about something else when you start to think about something useless.
Plan to think about an specific topic in the future and relax till then. If you have to decide something before the week ends, you can postpone the decision making process when you have time and just simply don't think about it until the time comes. That's actually a good way to be comfortable in usually stressful times.
A good amount of our time is being put into our jobs; and if we don't love doing it, then our brain tries to protect us, and that's not easy when there's no rewarding hormones for it; that WILL make you angry and stresses you out a lot; it's specially harmful when you're forced to do things in your job.
In some jobs you also have to think about stuff even. If your brain is not relaxed, then you're about to get fired for not being good at your job! For example, imagine you're a programmer and it requires you to think about stuff and stay focused for a long time; how much can you keep doing it if you're in a middle of a fight with your wife and she's sitting next to you!??
On the other hand, some jobs require you to be present, and you have to do a lot or do little, but it doesn't need you to think about stuff, at least not most of the time; that's the type of job that if you're not happy in it, you're going to have a hard time controlling your brain from thinking about negative things.
Behaviors changes after you get the job!
As I said earlier, lots of our behaviors depend on our environment and also the people around us. Peer pressure helps us to change. But, it's usually doesn't act alone. Peer pressure changes you, but something have already changed your peers in that way!
Jobs that require lots of thinking, requires you to communicate that thought to your peers, so you end up talking about those things and you usually make jokes about those things and thus get those pleasure hormones everyone loves while talking about those things.
But on the other hand, the jobs that doesn't require lots of thinking, have the effect of giving you lots of time to think and when you have that much time to think, you run out of things to think, thus run out of things to talk about, thus you end up talking and thinking about useless stuff; and even often makes you think about the things that makes you happy so in that way you can get the necessary pleasure hormones; and that is, my friends, a really dangerous place to be in. Why?
Because thinking about the things that make you happy are not that many, probably. First of all, they tend to be less joyful when you think about them again; second of all, the joyful topics that are joyful for all and thus you're brain will have an easier time talking about them with your coworkers. That's why you see best friends or coworkers that spend so many hours together to start talking in circles about some topics that are usually you're better off not talking about them. That's sexual jokes are so popular in those situations. And that's not good.
The solution is to have a list of things to talk about in your pocket. Try to think and talk about them and then move on when you reach a point that you feel you don't need to anymore. Trust me, there are lots of things to talk about that are useful. That itself will require you to become a researcher as well since most topics require that.
And if your job requires you to think, then you probably want to do the same, because thinking about one thing over and over will makes you someone that can't talk to other people anymore since they probably didn't even heard of the topic you know so much about.
