I frequently have all of my work completed, and I am unfortunately not allowed to work from home. This means I spend a lot of time sitting at my desk scrolling social media, because there’s nothing that needs done. I feel like I’m wasting my time, even more than work already wasted the best hours of the day. How do you fill that downtime with something that is personally valuable, but not disruptive or noticeable enough that you’d get in trouble?
You don’t. I’d ask my lead/supervisor if there is any other item to work on. Doing this consistently will get you promoted.
I check other job listing.
Chess puzzles. Sometimes informational YouTube. There’s not usually that much time though.
I’ve spent a lot of time ruminating on the state of society and mourning the loss of better days.
Do online courses in areas of your interest.
Yes! Bonus points if your areas of interest align with your job, you may be able to get your company to foot the bill
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Art.
If I’m really bored I do actual work.
I write really dumb powershell scripts. One throws up a GUI with a picture of a wizard holding a magic 8-ball, clicking the 8-ball gives a random response from a list of responses. It was kind of fun figuring out how to store images in the script (just went with base64)…
Its always a fun way to guess if the meeting with M$ is going to be beneficial or not.
I have no downtime like that. Quite the contrary. I have too much work, too many responsibility, and want to fix and improve things that annoy me which adds more.
I do visit programming.dev, which is a distraction, but tangential in my field of work, sometimes directly useful.
Same. I work from clock in to clock out and don’t usually even have a second to check for messages on my phone from family.
What i do: oomscroll Lemmy, take smoke breaks, do “the little stuff” like organizing documents after your lazy coworkers, take a walk, read books and hop on codeacademy. Still - this freedom gets stale quickly because the most stressful part becomes pretending to look busy
Sometimes I chat with coworkers. I work in IT so sometimes I go on a rabbithole of random computer stuff. Usually though, I don’t have enough time to “kill”.
I wrote a book. Always looked busy. Was great!
Depending on how much of an asshole your company is, they probably have the rights to your book because you did it on company time
Highly recommend this. (My book is shit, and will never see the light of day, but I had so much fun writing it.)
Never think of your writing like that. Remember that both Twilight saga and 50 shades of grey exists as best sellers. Your writing is clearly better than that (just from this post!).
Consider something like Smashwords, or even sticking it on Amazon for free/cheap. You may not be the next Tolkien, but you worked on the book, let people read it!
Haha same, but I had fun and learned a whole lot about the effort that goes into it. Had a newfound respect for everything I read after.
What’s your book genre and about?
Im here. Hello. Currently working.
I read wikipedia or fun books(novels) from zlib/annas. Also some lemmy and hn.
if you drop the file in word, it almost looks like you’re working
By doom scrolling on Lemmy and Reddit.
