I have never worked in admin before. I have discovered it is a bizarre work environment where you can be busy and bored and offered endless slices of cake all at the same time.

Today I finished all my work and had nothing to do. Really. Nothing. I was done. Up-to-date. Finished. It was 4pm.

Here’s a list of ways I have learnt to run out the office clock:

1. Refresh your emails
2. Delete emails
3. Go to the bathroom
4. Make a cup of tea
5. Type up stories, articles and ideas for your blog in Outlook (it looks like you are writing an amazingly detailed email)
6. Create some thoughtfully named folders in Outlook
7. Create some thoughtfully organised sub-folders in Outlook
8. Move emails into aforementioned folder and sub-folders
9. Have a look online for things that could pass for work-related research
10. Be thankful you have a job
11. Be thankful you have a job where you can do numbers 1 through to 9
12. Don’t feel guilty because sometimes you put in way more than the allocated 7.6hours per day and there’s no such thing as overtime here
13. Chat with your colleague about Game of Thrones
14. Check your voice-mail
15. Change your voice-mail using a different name / accent / company
16. Delete your voice-mail
17. Repeat steps 15 and 16 for as long as necessary or until you draw unwanted attention to yourself (whichever comes first)
18. Don’t look at the clock
19. Make a deal with yourself that you WILL NOT work in admin for the REST OF YOUR LIFE