I feel like this is such a thing. There are obviously days where you have absolutely nothing to do. If facetime doesn't matter in your group, I assume you can work from home after building some trust.
If facetime does matter, that sucks no?
What do you even do when you pretend to be busy?
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Most of the time I need 2 days of work just to catch up on my to-dos, so I actually never have to pretend I’m busy ... and when I’m not, I just call it a day early and people are happy I can take a break
JPM juniors are going to be puzzled by your post.
There’s never a time when there’s no work, but I found that especially during WFH, I only want to finish the work that’s urgent and needs to be done this week.
Pick up reading as a hobby. If you can enjoy it then even in the office you can read books in pdf form and the aso / vp walking the bullpen may think you are reading notes to a 10k or the news or something. Generally not looked down upon even if you are reading for pleasure.
Biggest hobby is reading, and what you said is exactly what I do during slow days.
How about reading paperback or hardcovers? Never done that before though.
Looks a little fishy to pull out a book
My firm also has a online study patform. good books and reads on there. More like textbooks, but totally worth it because it also makes the corporate look good.
Pick up reading as a hobby. If you can enjoy it then even in the office you can read books in pdf form and the aso / vp walking the bullpen may think you are reading notes to a 10k or the news or something. Generally not looked down upon even if you are reading for pleasure.
Who has downtime lmao? Really?
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