I know this sounds a bit stupid, but I have literally nothing to do (for 80% of the time I am at work). Despite getting paid well. So I am pretty lucky on that end.
But I wanna use this time somehow to invest in myself. What is the skill I can learn at work?
Main thing is, other people shouldn’t understand I am doing it, meaning language learning or anything vocal/loud is out of equation.
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Edit:
I’m in sales management
I can use headphones
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Golf.
Assume based on the noise statement that you’re stuck in an office?
What do you do? That’s probably going to help people make suggestions for things that can benefit you.
Can you also listen to things / watch video?
If you’re using any type of computer/laptop/tablet just be sure the company doesn’t monitor usage. Also, if you create something then they might be able to claim intellectual property rights depending where you live.
(In my old place, I wrote a couple of books in my vast amounts of spare time. I brought my old, unconnected laptop in just in case I made the NY Times bestseller list. I didn’t, both books were absolute shite.)
I read a lot of articles and listen to podcasts while I work on personal projects.
At least that’s what I tell myself I’m going to do while I go on to waste 5 hours a day on reddit.
Come up with good suggestions on why they should let you work from home? Haha
Why can’t you learn a language? You can study vocabs and grammar
I’d be brushing up your resume as you are probably about to get fired. People who are lazy are work don’t just fly under the radar bro.
If you were at home I would say “get a second, similar, job.”
Why does a sales guy need to be tethered to an office?
r/overemployed, get a 2nd job lol
What type of sales? Does it not make sense to use the time to earn more commission?
if you haven’t thought of anything yet, i suggest watching this series of lectures on [human behavioral biology](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA) from stanford’s channel in the meantime. it’s super interesting and is probably even applicable to your job in some ways.
I got a part time job that I can also do while I have down time at work. You could also take classes.
This is a passion of mine, so you need to love it to keep at it, but learning languages is so addictingly fun it’s ridiculous, and opens up so many adventures and new lives to live that I don’t know how I’ll ever stop learning. You can definitely do it literally only listening and watching. Spanish is by far the easiest (and actually I got my studies to send me to Argentina, where I’m at right now, for three months partly due to the work I put in to learning Spanish during my main work). You can literally get to a conversational level of Spanish in a year with just Language Transfer and then Dreaming Spanish if you wanted
Language learning is definitely not out of the question. I study language at work all the time. If you’re interested in it you can study vocabulary, study grammar, study writing, listening comprehension, etc. Especially if you can use headphones, there’s so much more to learning a language than saying words out loud
If there’s some training courses you could take, it would kill the time and make you look like you’re dedicated to the job.
Sign up for masterclass.com.
Sucks you can’t let them hear you. Learning a language via a site like verbling would be good.
Or that you can’t leave. I just go to the gym or the beach for an hour or so a day.
I love audio books at work. But with the free time you’re talking about, maybe learn a second language?
Nothing. Stuff like weed, fun, stuff that keeps you genuine and young.
I had a job like this where I was basically paid 6 figures to sit in a small room alone overnight and make sure nothing went wrong. Every 2 hours I had to push a button.
I was already a software developer so I wrote all kinds of scripts to automate what few duties I had, and to monitor things realtime for problems and sound a VERY LOUD alarm if one was found. This way, I didn’t have to keep 100% of my attention on the systems.
I used my time to watch movies, learn new programming languages, write a video game, learn several software suites that I had always been interested in, read a lot of articles, learn to draw, play video games, and do whatever else I felt like doing with that time.
If you’d asked me before 2023 my answer would be an unequivocal “learn to code” but the rise of AI really has me questioning the future of that skillset. It’ll still be valuable for the next 5 years but beyond that is anybody’s guess.
If I were you, I’d take video courses for various software suites. Learn Photoshop. Learn to edit video in Resolve. Turbocharge your Excel spreadsheet skills.
Start a cult
Not to be snarky, but I’d say either searching for a new job or learning skills for your resume.
Anytime one of my peers/colleagues has talked about getting paid well for doing nothing, they get made redundant. Just doesn’t seem sustainable.