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?
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