Blog post. Why are we annoyed at work? #159

I've made an observation today and probably it's worth writing a post about that.
I had a task today that would normally piss me off, but instead of being annoyed I've just pretended to be a researcher who is researching this damn cancer.
Two ideas:

1. We are annoyed when we think that the task is not noble enough. A cancer-researcher is not pissed that cancer is hard to cure, he is pissed when, say, his assistant haven't finished with his part or when a publisher refuses to publish his paper etc. Those problems are no different from caner, it's a problem of researcher, that he thinks that those problems do not deserve his time/energy. "It's not my job", "It must work, why it's not working?", "why do you make my work difficult"?
2. Personal attachment or even a feeling of responsibility: cancer existed long before the researcher was born, but the assistant they hired was a decision of the researcher, or the publisher he picked up was his decision. The illusion of having control on those problems is the problem.