I know what you mean, you're trained to do a job and dont want to be sat around doing nothing.
Mr CRX is same, gets a bit fed up when alerters are quiet.
I was never bored and at the same time never looked for work, as it would always come when working in Casualty in the middle of football or rugby on TV.
You can pop round and nurse me through my cold, I went into a primary school on Monday morning for a charity thing and now I'm sick as a dog, they always they children carry germs