You guys have free time at work? Kinda curious what you all do?

I am and Electrical Engineer and am usually busy all day. Sometimes I'll head home a few hours early if i hit my hours for for the week or if I have to "hurry up and wait"

contribute to openstreetmap

"My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that doesn't so closely resemble Hell.”

Briefly daydream about having time to kill, log my overtime, and get back to my giant never ending pile of tasks

Remote into my other machine and play video games

Lay in my hammock and talk to the birds and squirrels.

OpenStreetMap contributions.

Crosswords on my phone. I can take a glance at the clue and chew on it without staring at the screen

Back when I still had the time, I played Universal Paperclips. That was fun.

I don’t have an office job in the traditional sense anymore, but when I did, I would do a lot of trip planning. My boomer mother always books tours or uses a travel agent, but I stay away from the first because they seem to be filled with mostly boomers, and the second because I’m cheap. I’m not really confident enough to do it for a place where English isn’t easily understood or used, but we’ve gone some cool places based entirely on my own planning and research.

Investing, learning commodities and markets, planning life financials, planning outside work schedules, meals, activities, dates, home or vehicle maintenance. Couponing. Health based care and ideas.

Check in on family/older people always is worth doing often you never know when it'll be the last time you could ever hear or see them.

Basically being productive in your life outside work while on company time, its actually the highest tier achievement in an employee role.

I rarely have free time at work. I like what I do so it doesn’t feel like a soul sucking grind, I just finish something and start working on the next thing.

I’ll troubleshoot or enhance my home lab when I take a break. Be productive around the house like laundry or empty dishwasher, let the dogs out, organize digital files or mail/bills. How very “over 40” of me, right?

I rarely have time to kill at work. I don't get paid by the hour, so I need to work to make money. And if there's no work to do I go home. In the very rare times when I'm waiting on someone else I usually eat, hydrate, or take a smoke break.

Wikipedia rabbit holes. Start on one subject that randomly popped up in my brain, and off we go.

Go down a hyperfocus rabbit hole.

"You cannot kill time without injuring eternity".

I basically do what you do except replace homelab with make music. As such I don't have much advice lol, it's a good question.

physical labourer - music and working on maths problems are great. Notgibg melts the day away better than liquid dnb and PDE topology

I read a lot of KU ebooks. When I work from home my steam deck helps me get through tough 2hr " daily standups".

Read https://linmob.net/

I work from home and I take naps. I can justify being offline for a few hours or more.

Skribbl.io play draw&guess with Indian kids

Make maps for the government. I watch YouTube all day.

play phone games (bejeweled/parking lot..) or read books/manga/wikipedia

still looks like I am active on Teams/online.

Dude, do we have to have the ethics speech again?