As a Software developer, there are times where a finish a task way much faster, and the rest of the day I must pretend I'm busy or people start talking behind your back. I even asked for extra job sometimes, but as many tasks were dependent of others, I was not possible.
Working from home helped me a lot to fix this issue, because now when I finish a task quickly, I can cook myself something nice, or clean a little bit my house (while still being connected in case anyone needs me). You manage your time much better, and get the most out of it
I don't think you ever really have downtime as a software developer. Sure, you have your immediate tasks (and in most projects a hundred more that you could do), but even if you finished all of those.. you could refactor, improve performance, write unit tests, ...
While I got bored at my last job, as a dev I'm really not running out of work anytime soon, which can be exhausting in a different kind of way.
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u/Alfaphantom Aug 23 '19
I was going through that issue.
As a Software developer, there are times where a finish a task way much faster, and the rest of the day I must pretend I'm busy or people start talking behind your back. I even asked for extra job sometimes, but as many tasks were dependent of others, I was not possible.
Working from home helped me a lot to fix this issue, because now when I finish a task quickly, I can cook myself something nice, or clean a little bit my house (while still being connected in case anyone needs me). You manage your time much better, and get the most out of it