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What to do when there is nothing to do at work and you don’t see much career growth?
I currently work as a full-time data analyst/engineer. I took this job under the premise that I’d be working with various new tools and projects.
The problem is that I’m not given a lot of work. The boss assigns me very few tickets, and the little work I get is not very fulfilling–mostly putting together documentations and working on other low-priority, low-impact items.
I barely put in a few hours every day. They track my hours so I have to log my hours on items that I worked on, and that’s becoming increasingly difficult to make up, as I have so little tickets on my plate. I tried asking my boss for more work, but I’m only given more low-priority items, and she keeps all the high-priority (a.k.a. “exciting”) work for herself.
I started to work on my personal projects, which helps me kill the time. But it doesn’t feel good and I feel guilty that I’m collecting paychecks when I’m not producing much. I’m also nervous that they might be monitoring activities on my laptop and finally catch me slacking.
Has anyone experienced this? I’m considering to leave, but the interviews I have right now are for temporary contract positions. It has only been 5 months since I started so switching may not look the best for my resume. I’m not sure if I should transition for better opportunity, or if I should just enjoy the ride while it lasts. What are your thoughts?
**TLDR**: Not enough to do at work. Should I get another job, even if it’s a temporary contract position? Or should I work on my side projects while collecting paychecks?
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Best advice would be to keep asking for work. If you’ve been there for a short period of time, try to last until 12 months at least so you have something stable on your cv.
If you work for a big company, can you do an internal transfer to something you’ll enjoy more?
Make sure anything personal you do isn’t on tour company equipment as they probably can fire you for that.
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I’m kind of going through this now. Going to speak to my manager (think it’s because I’m black/gay and he is unconsciously discriminating or is threatened 🤔). I want to appear reasonable and if he’s not cooperative back only then am I going to take it to HR.
If you enjoy the job then probably do something similar to what I’m going to do. If you know the writing is on the wall then look for another job. It sucks but it’s a job and it can be changed. You/your life is so much more than your 9-5
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