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What do you usually do on your vacant time? Aside from eating cookies. Sometimes being an IT guy there are days that you dont have too much work load. How do you spend your time for the rest of the day? Boredom strikes sometimes on us. I guess.

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Read books, whitepapers and so. I’m a reader and there’s plenty of material to be found in this community.

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I have a subscription to https://www.itpro.tv/ , there I log in and learn something new.

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I checkout new technology, watch videos on current tech to get the latest info. There is a never ending supply of information to keep me busy.

Sometimes its a Netflix binge!

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Most of the time on weekdays I sign in Spicework and see how community members are helping each other, sometime I take a notes on important topic, learn from their mistake. It fell amazing when someone agree/spice my reply.

On weekends try to spend most of the time with family, play games and watch movies.

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what is this thing called “free time”!?
when I sleep?

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usually on r/SysAdmin or tech subreddits.

Mostly auditing exchange and server logs.

experiments during and on production. because I can.

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I’m not familiar with this concept of “free time” at work.

In all seriousness, what little free time I have is usually spent keeping myself up to date on new tech and combing Spiceworks.

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Haha I get about 10 seconds of free time, 15 if I am lucky.

When I do have some ‘free time’ I usually look through the Spiceworks community.

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The company i work for has it’s busier periods and not so busy periods. When it’s quiet I usually, browse youtube to watch some tech vids, and read up on stuff I’ve been following, whether that’s on reddit or toms hardware etc :slight_smile:

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i wish so much, that i had time to be bored once again…

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I spend my time browsing here for anything. I then write a comment. Erm… get more coffee maybe but then I feel sick. I often play things or write stuff. I help run a few communities online so sometimes I write posts just in notepad and use them later. I have actually also written music in notepad. I’m currently trying to kickstart an idea for the next dance in this thing I’m writing so yeah, notepad again XD.

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“Free time”, on the clock? Nope that would be thievery, stealing time from the company. It would indicate that I am not a professional capable of working without a babysitter watching my every minute.

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Are you talking about downtime during the workday? Because I spend that working, learning, or doing something shop-related - even if that ‘thing’ is Spiceworks.

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Same here.

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Audiobooks and industry publications.

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Catch up with some tech news, read and try to learn new skills, see what’s happening on spiceworks

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When I’m also doing chores I listen to podcasts. In my actual free time I play more video games than a responsible adult should, though that’s been slightly mitigated lately by planning and running the D&D campaign I started with some friends a couple months ago. When I’m not at home I hang out and play board games with family and friends, with drinks if it’s on the weekend.

edit: I completely misread the question. In my free time at work, I make sure documentation is up to date, run random reports that might give me some good info, watch education and relevant YouTube videos, hang out on Spiceworks, or visit friendly co-workers to help pass the time. Free time at work is a rare commodity, though.

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When I’ve had abundant free time at work, that’s usually meant I’m a short-timer on contract, so unless the next gig is already lined up, I’ll be focusing energy into getting the next paying thing. Rode out 6 months of contract uncertainty like that once; it wasn’t like being in prison, more like a really strange, air-conditioned Limbo, or Purgatory…?

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I’m usually here on Spiceworks or looking for other tech-related articles to read.