cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36157102
my future job involves taking labor samples from point a to point b in a huge university campus involving several buildings and there is a ton of downtime: I often see my future coworkers playing on their phones, buying coffee several times a day, talking or smoking out of boredom.
There are moments when every laboratory wants you at once but even then they take it easy and a person cannot be at two places at the same time.
I don’t know if it’s really going to be this relaxed but it really looks so.
I was thinking loading my smartphone with books, find a quiet place and read, learn something.
Instead of smoking I could stretch and do some easy pilates and yoga.
there’s always going several times to the toilet to have a seat and relax with nobody pestering you.
I don’t reckon I could study something for college, write a book or poetry or learn a foreign language, as I couldn’t concentrate.
what do you do in your downtime when you’re lucky enough not to have a supervisor micromanaging you?
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Reading. Writing. Coding. Studying. Exercise.
I wrote 2 novels in my downtime in the last 10 years.
I worked night shifts delivering material to hospital labs.
I learned software engineering during downtime, mostly programming.
But follow any passion you have.
Your suggestions are good! With that much time, you can do things that interest you and things that might be useful to you.
Learning about finances (if you haven’t already) might help you plan your future. Learning about subjects that interest you will be fun. Take out library books. Maybe take time to draw or take photos, knit, something creative?
I love reading, but lack the time to do it. I listen to audiobooks when commuting, I would love to get more time to do that. So I recommend that.
What about a color e-reader with some comics or ebooks? Or watch/listen some classes that fit your interests online? Brandon Sanderson has his creative writing classes for free on YouTube, and there are so many more that might interest you…
May I recommend Kinnu? It’s gameified learning on a huge variety of topics. I just finished the data science pathways, but have also done logic, superpower learning, and ikigai. It’s free and I find it a super interesting way to kill about 5 minutes at a time.
I doomscroll and, I don’t like doing so but it’s just so easy.
As a result I deleted all corporate social media. Yes, I have Lemmy but I can’t doomscroll much because there’s hardly any of us and the posts aren’t exactly thick and fast…
I’ve had jobs before the days of smartphones and I used to read, one job I had a TV/VHS combo so I used to bring in tapes from home - mainly Red Dwarf and just easy watching films.
This was when I worked on reception for some multi use building (think offices, music studios, art studios etc) and I had a Red Dwarf tape in and I was pretty into it as it was about half ten at night and the desk was dead.
During a funny moment I heard laughing from behind me and I turned and there was a group of people who rented spaces from the building stood behind me watching it as well.
I have no idea how long they were there, or how many episodes they watched.
Tangent aside, books. Just read whatever you can on whatever format you choose
