A general question that happens to be my predicament at current. I’m a general safety admin/manager that has automated most of my tasks(emails/excel sheets)
Most days I doomscroll fediverse and lurk irc/matrix channels on the work desktop but am curious about more practical or useful things I should be doing instead. It’s looking like this will be my life for a good while since job market is abysmal and promotions are hyperstagnate(have also hit a wall in improving my scripts). If anyone has any similar experiences, please share and advise, as I feel quite lost and trapped :/
You guys work 40 hours per week?!
Is this your way of saying you work more or less than 40? lol
Less. And it barely feels like work.
what do you do?
I teach machining in Scandinavia.
Lathe and mill, both manual and CNC. ISO programming, CAD drawing, etc. The studens are have 32,5 hours of school (including breaks), and I rarely give them homework. I have, in theory, 4,5 hours of preparations per week, but I don’t use it.
Students are happy. 4 gift baskets from 9 classes in the four years I’ve worked there.
I present myself to the office for 40 hours a week.
Do I work for 40 hours a week?
No.
My job requires 45.
You fill out your own timesheet. Mine varies from 39 to 50 hours. They dont care what it says. But if you turn in a lot of timesheets under 45 hrs and dont get your work done and people complain that youre bad to work with, you may get asked whats up. If however you always get shit done, it doesn’t matter what it says for hours.