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Hello Spiceworks,

This is my second year in IT now and to be honest I’m slowly getting kinda bored because I often don’t know what to once I don’t have anything to do. I mean I really love working on something but once I got like 1 hour of nothing or so I just don’t know what to do with the spare time.

You got any ideas besides reading IT-articles ?

It’s often actually more than 1 hour of spare time.

PS: If that’s the wrong section for this question I’m sorry. I didn’t know where to put it.

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This is a good time filler:

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Spend you free time on something like pluralsight sharping your skills.

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Documentation. There’s an old saying that if you have time to lean, you have time to clean. Write documentation until your eyes bleed and then keep writing. I wish I had more time to document stuff at work but the things that I have done, have been useful a time or two. Especially when I am gone on vacation and others need to understand how something works or where something is.

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Plus one on documentation. Potentially helps you in the future, but also helps your successor when you get fired for not doing anything. Ha!

Or, spin up a distro of some operating system you aren’t familiar with and try to break it.

Or surf the sites you don’t allow your users to go to.

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Start reading Spiceworks topics that you don’t know the answer to. Go do some research and see if you can find the answer. It’s a good way to start learning about new topics rather than just sticking with the stuff you know. Obviously some stuff you can’t do when it’s related to products you don’t have and can’t play with, but for example, powershell. It’s a great way to start learning. Look at questions being asked then figure out how to do it.

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I took the time to learn to program in C, which has proven to be a bit useful for some day-to-day tasks, actually. Now whenever I have time, I continue to improve on it, using any given task I do as an excuse to learn more.

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I sharpen my Pokemon Master skills. Gotta catch them all!

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I am either on some training website, working on my powershell-fu or on the spiceworks forums.

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Study for a certification. You will thank yourself later.

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Spiceworks!

Browse and answer.

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And when you need a break after trying all the useful stuff above? Solve a Rubiks Cube. Especially the Spiceworks Cube!image1.JPG

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read and post on spiceworks…

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Spiceworks is always open on one of my tabs

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Spiceworks community! Great place for knowledge.

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updating documentation

writing powershell stuff to automate more things

looking for ways to improve your servers/infrastructure/etc, etc

learning a new skill

spiceworks forums

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What is “nothing to do?” LOL

What do I do? This. I’m on spiceworks.

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Whenever this topic gets posted, I think of this:

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What is this “nothing to do” thing you speak of? :slight_smile: I’ve heard of it but never seen it.

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What is this “spare time” that you speak of? :wink: If ever I feel like I am starting to catch up on things or things are slowing down I like to review systems/processes/setups to see if things are as efficient as they could be. Of course, not looking to change anything for the sake of change, just trying to make sure that when I am super busy I am working efficiently by having streamlined processes and procedures. Also, when things are slow start thinking “Ok, what if this breaks, what if that dies, etc. and consider what you have in place for such a scenario”.

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