I’m now a pro magic the gathering player! Never thought I’d ascend to such heights, I’m terrible at magic lol
Is this specifically things we do during work hours more than our actual job? Or what we choose to do with our free time?
Cause if it’s slacking off at work, sadly, I am probably now a professional Solitaire player. If it’s in my free time… Well, my ADHD keeps me hopping from activity to activity so often let’s just call it “Special Projects Manager”…
Please refer to me as Total War XMunk in the future. I shall reign terror upon this land.
Well, either that or I’m now a professional pilgrim… gosh, I wish you could get paid for just walking a lot.
Power point archivist and people tracker downer!
You guys have time for other things? I do my job and can fill my day with that. I sometimes have to stand my ground to make other people understand that no, I cannot do this additional tasks everyday, I don’t have the time for that.
95% of the time it is busy. The other 5% I use to catch up with the stuff I have no time for when it is busy.
If I didn’t make time to do anything besides work and sleep like that I would literally go insane after about 2 weeks
Well that is when I am at work. My work times are clearly defined and when the time is over, I go home. So I am limited to about 8 hours in a day, with a very rare exception of 15 minutes longer.
After work and in the weekends I still have time to chill, but at work I have no downtime except for breaks. Luckily my boss also knows how busy we are and doesn’t complain if I cannot get everything finished, he just tells me what is a priority and what not.
That is really helpful for the stress levels, but it is still a pretty stressful job.
What kind of job you work? I hear people talk about having downtime to do nothing all the time on Reddit, but it seems like it’s industry dependent. Ex: in healthcare there often isn’t much in the way of downtime, but many office workers (obviously position dependent…can’t think of specifics now) seem to say they do nothing all day
I work in a warehouse of a company that sells a pretty huge variation of products. I drive fork lifts on a regular basis, but my work is about 50% computer work too. But not in the office, my computer is in the warehouse.
I used to be a computer programmer, but being in the office all day drives me nuts. I need to be a little bit more active and I also like to change my view every now and then.
We have basically no downtime, there is always something to do, we are understaffed, the new hires don’t have a clue so all the work comes to the experiences workers. We are also trying to change some processes but we barely have the time.
So for me, the question was just really weird, I cannot imagine having nothing to do. I don’t even know what I would do if I have nothing to do. Probably take the day off or something…
Professional sleeper.
That should pretty much be the answer for anyone with a full-time job.
professional internet browserist. there are 16 hours between sleeping and multitasking.
I get the spirit here but not sure I agree that it MUST be true mathematically.
A full time job is 32+ hours a week. Even if I use the American 40, that’s still only 23% of the week not counting vacation or holiday.
Most people don’t get more then 8 hours off sleep a night. That’s 1/3 the day. 43% of the week for everything else.
That’s enough time for you to do something more than sleep or work. Then count in time for vacation and holiday and if you don’t sleep eight hours every night. And if you do stuff at work that isn’t necessarily in your job title.
Due to my meds I can only sleep 4-5 hours a night.
My reasoning was that you sleep some amount of time every single day (let’s say 6h). I doubt that many people will spend 6h on one specific activity/hobby every single day.
Might have misunderstood the wording - unless you do a lot of sleeping during working hours?
Pro golfer or sword fighter. Can’t complain
One thing I spend some time on is building out my Lego city.
I always wondered if people still make quirky Lego cities like the old days
Lego makes a lot of sets designed to be a city. The problem is that you need a full room to build out a city.
I’ve built a mini city on the scale that they released the mini modular set as. It is on the scale that this guy made his sets: https://legominimodularguy.blogspot.com
I think my city is better, though.
Photo time!
weirdly I’m still a Linux administrator but with way more fun services to maintain.
Can I ask how you got a job as a Linux administrator?
I’m not a Linux admin, but I think there are certifications you can get and exams you can take to show you understand stuff about shell scripting and related topics, if that’s what you’re interested in.
I think they have questions like “Make it so a welcome message and the time display when someone logs into your Linux server”, among other, harder things.
I don’t know a huge amount about the job market, but just saying you have those kinds of skills on your CV along with a bit of experience in some other tech/coding/data stuff might even be enough.
Easy, you mention you want to use BSD and the other IT guys give you that look.
I’m stuck on RHEL lmao but using BSD for work would be fun
Been using Linux for 25 years so i don’t know if it’s comparable to today but ironically it was setting up game servers for fun. Then i applied for a game sever hosting provider. i think they have mostly died out now. Then just kinda jumped over to web hosting this was before cloud was a thing. Then kinda moved into internal IT running corporate IT. The nice thing being 100% Linux admin i don’t have to mess with AD and FSMO. Even though I know how to i keep quiet about that.
Guitarist/cross stitcher, with a side job as a professional TV watcher lol
RN = Refreshments and Narcotics
Are you me?
Coffee taster…
Second this, other than Starbucks, coffee is pretty crappy. Any places worth checking out will be highly appreciated
I live in a medium sized US city, and even here, StarBucks is pretty much the bottom of the barrel. Where do you live that StarBucks is the best?
Edit: Not throwing shade, genuinely curious. I had this situation in my hometown. But India is a tea-centric culture, so it’s understandable.
Costa, or any places’ (UK) local cafe’s, you could go into the middle of nowhere and still find a cafe or freehouse
I drink homemade mixes, Starbucks it’s good also, check out YouTube for different kinds of homemade mixes there are some which taste pretty good made with instant coffee.
Christ on a bike I wouldn’t take coffee advice from either of yous two loons
If bikes existed in that era, you best believe he would have rode one
And he still wouldn’t have cycled to Starbucks 🤢
I don’t get it. Why do people like Starbucks? To me it’s bitter and granular. Compared to a Nero which is smooth and sweet.
Yet, many avid coffee drinkers I know love the taste of Starbucks. Is it a genetic thing?
Most of the time I just get a standard coffee and they taste the same between all cafes and coffee shops, and with standard drinks Starbucks is cheaper than Nero, but at custamizing drinks level price doesn’t matter
i’m from melbourne, australia which is one of the best places in the world for coffee… when i go to the US i try to find good coffee but our version of good tends to be VERY different
US good is a dark roast - which i find very bitter… australian coffee (and melbourne in particular) is quite a light roast, which is more acidic but less bitter
i find most good coffee in the US to be pretty undrinkable (this probably comes down to choice of preparations: black drip is pretty weak; expresso starts out strong), but a starbucks blonde is… inoffensive (note write relation to your comment: a light right is probably what you’re talking about; especially a light double ristretto… a ristretto is a half shot, twice… the bitterness from coffee comes at the end of the shot, so nero is perhaps a light roast double ristretto… you also tend to get most of the caffeine in the first half i think? so it’s more caffeine if that worries you)
so when i’m in a rush and really just want to not hate what im putting in me, ill find a starbucks not because its good, but because its fucking hard work to find a good coffee that’s also my taste - my usual cues for a cafe just don’t work in the US, and there’s no a fantastic cafe on literally every corner so the choice is even harder
Is it a genetic thing?
Probably more of a cultural one. Like how even Americans with Scandinavian ancestry consider black liquorice taste bud poison but us Scandinavians IN Scandinavia generally can’t get enough of it 😁
Professional Cat Petter! 😻
I really don’t want to play Arma professionallyI misunderstood the questionHuh, I now get paid to waste time staring at the internet. Neat, I guess?
Urgh, better than being paid to start online fights. Your mother?
MY MOTHER’S A SAINT
Sysadmin cosplayer or Barista.
