(NOTE: For the purposes of this question I'm defining work as "actively contributing through some skill to a task that directly furthers your goals in your job as they are understood between you and the company/your superior")
Typing this as I start my shift at my wfm job, where I'm feeling a little lost. Part of the issue is that I basically made the job up - I used to be part time contract until I pitched my current role to a superior during a talent inquiry a few months ago and then she decided it was a good idea, so there's no well defined list of tasks I can latch onto. Don't wanna go too much into it but half my time is spent doing the stuff I was doing on contract, which takes basically little to no effort, while the other half is left unstructured to me where I'm to do research, gather and consolidate feedback about user experiences, and act as a generalist "fixer" type for intermediate level tech and workflow stuff.
I feel like I spend so much time in my workday doing nothing, and I'm both scared that will reflect poorly on me for my continued prospects at the company and guilty that I might be slacking (only because it's nonprofit, otherwise I wouldn't care). Also probably a bit of :among-drip: syndrome mixed in there because this is my first non grocery store job.
Idk I just vomited all that out there. It's a free website :shrug-outta-hecks:
On a "good" day, assuming I have free reign of my workspace, which often needs to be shared out among colleagues in my team, I will get between 4-6 hours doing relevant tasks MAX. The rest is spent on lunch/cofee breaks, or looking for something to do. On some days, I will literally only get any significant amount of work done right up until lunchtime (so we're talking 3-4 hours MAX), then I have to share the bench and I'm left literally twiddling my thumbs, looking frantically for something to do so I look busy, or doing paperwork of dubious necessity.
It sounds like you're working in person - do you think you'd get more or less done working from home (assuming it's a job where that's feasible)?
Not really feasible to work from home in my profession unless you're one of a select group of contractors who basically look at the finished product and send their opinion across to the relevant parties. Suffice to say, I don't have the qualifications for that, so all I can do is quality control. I've never held a WFH job - I couldn't possibly tell how that would go. What I do know is that given free reign of my PC, I will "happily" spend all day doomscrolling twitter or youtube.