I got my first career job back in June, went through all my training until the guy I replaced left. I adapt to things pretty quickly, and I can be extrmely efficient, but I find myself burning through my entire day's workload in four (of my eight) hours generally every single day. The rest of the time here I find myself dicking around on the internet and era with a seperate netflix window open.
Is this common? Are your work hours grueling or do you find yourself kinda hanging out during your time at work? I'm genuinely curious what everyone else's day looks like.
I'm sure you're finishing all your tasks but if you're in an office environment be careful with this, they might be monitoring your internet traffic and regardless of productivity, long activity on random sites and netflix will reflect badly on you.
Is this common? Are your work hours grueling or do you find yourself kinda hanging out during your time at work? I'm genuinely curious what everyone else's day looks like.
I work 4~ hours per day as well, and 100% remote which I wouldn't say is the average employment situation. My last job was same profession, around 8.5hrs per day along with 1.5h hour commute.
I am a page designer / copy editor at a newspaper. I generally have 20 or so pages to design a day, but I just found my flow and burn right through them. Once I get them done and send them to print, I'm done for the day.
Wasn't there just a thread where no office job has you working less than 45 hours a week to keep up if not more? How do these two concepts make sense together?
I am a page designer / copy editor at a newspaper. I generally have 20 or so pages to design a day, but I just found my flow and burn right through them. Once I get them done and send them to print, I'm done for the day.
When I was subediting for a monthly magazine the cycle was usually two weeks of kinda just faffing around and then one week of pure terror as every contributor threw in their copy all at once. So I guess for a daily just compress that cycle more
I am a page designer / copy editor at a newspaper. I generally have 20 or so pages to design a day, but I just found my flow and burn right through them. Once I get them done and send them to print, I'm done for the day.
Interesting, thanks for the details. I've largely been project based most of my career so projects can overlap and take months or years to finish. I would come in and wear a different hat every single day. I recently moved into pre-sales engineering for servers/storage so no day is the same and I spend a lot of time on the road with customers. But I am based 100% from home, so whenever I have downtime I'm home so I tend to just walk away from the PC.
So I started my first day as a staff accountant at this corporate company. I've never been a staff accountant before nor have I worked in a corporate environment. I was really nervous about it and I wasn't even sure if I could stand being in a business outfit all day.
Anyway, I get there and after filling out the necessary paperwork, I'm left at my cubicle with nothing to do. My computer isn't hooked up since they couldn't find the power cord and they weren't even sure if they had done a background check on me. After filling out my background information, I was left at my cubicle again with no instructions whatsoever. I was told before that I was going to be in training but nothing happened.
So I just sat there at the desk for two and a half hours. I was on my phone practically the entire time and I was bored stupid. After two and a half hours I had had enough. So I went to my boss and told her that I don't think this is a good fit. I told her that they don't seem organized and told her that I wasn't doing anything. She told me that it's only the first day and that I'm in training. But I told her that I haven't done anything and I wasn't even getting trained. So I told her that I'm leaving and am going home.
And now I'm at home. I called a couple of my friends, my boyfriend, and my mom called me and they all think that I made a huge mistake and should go back and ask for my job back. So I called my boss back and she said "No. You're done." And that was it.
After getting told that I screwed up, that I ruined my future, that this is how the corporate world works, I'm feeling very depressed. It definitely hit me that I made a huge mistake. Why don't I just kill myself now and get it over with? I have no future anyway, right? Why does the corporate world work this way?! This is horrible! Maybe I'm not meant to be in a corporate environment. Maybe I'm just meant to make minimum wage and be stuck at some dead-end job.
I hate my life. Did I fuck up my future that badly?!
TL;DR: I quit a corporate position after doing nothing but sitting for 2.5 hours. And now I'm paying for it, I guess.
Depends on the job. As a programmer, previously on corporate with long-term iterative products and now self-employed, there is no such thing as down-time. I always have a backlog.
Lol I am given two fifteen minute breaks in an 8 hour day at my job and the workload is so heavy that I normally only take one around 4 hours into the day
Yup. A good 40% of my day can be consumed by the computer rendering away all the videos and animations I'm working on. During that time I use a bit of cpu power to open a Remote Desktop window and use another computers power to browse, sometimes start other projects, but mostly relax.
On the flip side, I can have 14 hour deadline driven days when I'm multitasking 3 videos, 2 event setups and overseeing 1 executive live broadcast all at the same time. The company gets way more time out of me than they pay for.
My job consists of a lot of downtime to catch up on a backlog of work. I am not micromanaged and I get to post on this board most of the day. I lucked out.
So I started my first day as a staff accountant at this corporate company. I've never been a staff accountant before nor have I worked in a corporate environment. I was really nervous about it and I wasn't even sure if I could stand being in a business outfit all day.
Anyway, I get there and after filling out the necessary paperwork, I'm left at my cubicle with nothing to do. My computer isn't hooked up since they couldn't find the power cord and they weren't even sure if they had done a background check on me. After filling out my background information, I was left at my cubicle again with no instructions whatsoever. I was told before that I was going to be in training but nothing happened.
So I just sat there at the desk for two and a half hours. I was on my phone practically the entire time and I was bored stupid. After two and a half hours I had had enough. So I went to my boss and told her that I don't think this is a good fit. I told her that they don't seem organized and told her that I wasn't doing anything. She told me that it's only the first day and that I'm in training. But I told her that I haven't done anything and I wasn't even getting trained. So I told her that I'm leaving and am going home.
And now I'm at home. I called a couple of my friends, my boyfriend, and my mom called me and they all think that I made a huge mistake and should go back and ask for my job back. So I called my boss back and she said "No. You're done." And that was it.
After getting told that I screwed up, that I ruined my future, that this is how the corporate world works, I'm feeling very depressed. It definitely hit me that I made a huge mistake. Why don't I just kill myself now and get it over with? I have no future anyway, right? Why does the corporate world work this way?! This is horrible! Maybe I'm not meant to be in a corporate environment. Maybe I'm just meant to make minimum wage and be stuck at some dead-end job.
I hate my life. Did I fuck up my future that badly?!
TL;DR: I quit a corporate position after doing nothing but sitting for 2.5 hours. And now I'm paying for it, I guess.
So I started my first day as a staff accountant at this corporate company. I've never been a staff accountant before nor have I worked in a corporate environment. I was really nervous about it and I wasn't even sure if I could stand being in a business outfit all day.
Anyway, I get there and after filling out the necessary paperwork, I'm left at my cubicle with nothing to do. My computer isn't hooked up since they couldn't find the power cord and they weren't even sure if they had done a background check on me. After filling out my background information, I was left at my cubicle again with no instructions whatsoever. I was told before that I was going to be in training but nothing happened.
So I just sat there at the desk for two and a half hours. I was on my phone practically the entire time and I was bored stupid. After two and a half hours I had had enough. So I went to my boss and told her that I don't think this is a good fit. I told her that they don't seem organized and told her that I wasn't doing anything. She told me that it's only the first day and that I'm in training. But I told her that I haven't done anything and I wasn't even getting trained. So I told her that I'm leaving and am going home.
And now I'm at home. I called a couple of my friends, my boyfriend, and my mom called me and they all think that I made a huge mistake and should go back and ask for my job back. So I called my boss back and she said "No. You're done." And that was it.
After getting told that I screwed up, that I ruined my future, that this is how the corporate world works, I'm feeling very depressed. It definitely hit me that I made a huge mistake. Why don't I just kill myself now and get it over with? I have no future anyway, right? Why does the corporate world work this way?! This is horrible! Maybe I'm not meant to be in a corporate environment. Maybe I'm just meant to make minimum wage and be stuck at some dead-end job.
I hate my life. Did I fuck up my future that badly?!
TL;DR: I quit a corporate position after doing nothing but sitting for 2.5 hours. And now I'm paying for it, I guess.
I wish. I am busy the entirety of my day and sometimes more. If it's slow it can get busy in a second, depending what work is coming in. I analyze client samples so if they send in samples last minute I gotta do them asap!
