Feeling sad I’m hardly doing anything in my job and getting paid for it?
Not gonna disclose any further to avoid risking my profile… but I basically do almost nothing at my job. I’m of course, working at the back-end office side of things but the stuff I can do can pretty much be done in like, one day.
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In total, everything can be completed in a week or two. After which I can just kick back and basically, well… do nothing aside from reading emails.
Is this spposed to be normal among anyone else working in an office role? My pay isn’t the best but I hardly spend much anyway so it’s enough to get by.
Netizens’ comments
- you can use the time – provided you can, to look for some side-hustle that you can find fulfillment in. At least the work doesn’t give you stress, you can make use of the spare time to plan for your next gig.
- It’s normal to feel this way. Especially once you get good at your job. Coming from the public service previously, I say don’t rock the boat and just try to look busy. Use the down time either for leisure or upgrade yourself with online courses. There are people who are paid more than you and do lesser as well.
- I used to have a friend who took a after-NS job at one of the telcos. The department receives a list of subscribers that need to be matched and sorted into different buckets to be entered into the system every day. The job usually takes a whole day so they have always hired a temp staff(my friend) to do that. The first day, he did as told. On the second day, he wrote a VBA script to sort the list and upload the file. The job became a 5 minute job so for the 4-5 months he was there, he just logged in the morning, ran his script and did whatever he wanted for the rest of the day.
On the last day of his work, he showed his boss the script. Her jaw dropped. - I automated my job so that I only do real work 1 week a month which consist of mostly meetings and follow ups.
My boss thinks I need 3 days to complete what previously took 6-7 days, but I only take an hour due to improved automation. He never questioned my efficiency after my first attempt at automation (cutting down 50%) of the time needed and I never volunteered the info. - Truth to be told, it is an enviable position. I was in a similar position and it gave me ample time to focus on graduate studies and certifications.
Rather than feeling stressed about having too much time, I told myself to enjoy the process because I will probably never have such a lifestyle in my subsequent jobs until retirement.
This turned out to be true. My subsequent jobs pay higher, but they also entailed greater responsibility and higher workload. I will probably never get that chill working life again, so I look back fondly to those times.