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?

  • Victor@lemmy.world
    18·
    9 months ago

    Would you be able to create even more work for yourself and get paid more for doing it? Like suggesting things to be done, or doing side projects?

    • s3rvant@lemmy.mlEnglish
      16·
      9 months ago

      This was me. At first I automated some commonly used spreadsheets and then made some simple web tools to help our team which eventually led to getting to their IT department and now I work from home full time as a developer.

      • Victor@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 months ago

        From home full time is the dream. I’m at home Thu–Fri.

        But yeah, very good! Showing what you can do will get you ahead and not be bored!