I walk around the shop and bullshit with others, maybe clean or organize stuff. Or help build panels if I'm caught up on testing. We're so busy right now tho those days are kind of long gone. Currently working overtime indefinitely til like 2027 at least.
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2025
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Research something non-work related (usually owls)
Plan a vacation or home project
Study music/theory/plugins/production or play on my mini keyboard
Make friends with other contractors outside of my company
Go out and enjoy the fall weather
Read an ebook or enjoy an audiobook. I started Discworld. I'm down 4 so far out of 41 I think it is.
Basically stuff I'd want to do anyway that requires little or no equipment. Down time is my time. The only thing that stinks is an open office with no real privacy. People don't seem to care, but it makes it less enjoyable for me. I've been here 2 years now and no one has ever said anything.
I was lucky enough to be able to keep working from home after the quarantines of 2020, but when I used to be in the office, I'd find a YouTube video, make it full screen, then on a second monitor I'd click and drag another window on top of it to obscure it. Then I'd hover over the taskbar to bring up the preview, and watch the video on that.
If anyone was passing by, I'd just have to move my mouse to get rid of the preview, and it looked like I was looking at important business stuff. Even if I didn't realize someone was getting close, the preview is pretty small, so they never noticed it, though it helped that I worked in an office full of computer-illiterate people.
I listen to podcasts or audiobooks, I often read from an eReader so from the outside can appear work related. But I also do a lot of origami so I don't know.
Read on kiwix. Browse the archive.
Playing games on my phone
Reading books
When I work in office settings I usually set pace based on what I need to accomplish, and use any extra time to do proper reviews of my work.
this was how I got my wow addiction back in 2005
Lately, Clash Royale
Do crosswords and puzzles to keep the ol' brain moist. The odd bit of doomscrolling as well of course.
I'm currently waiting for the line cleaner to work it's magic so am just sat in our site office.
There's no stock deliveries until tomorrow, it's too wet to paint (thanks Benjamin) so I'm relishing the quiet time before we go live tomorrow evening.
I check other job listing.