Play some fps games, 1 match lasts around an hour and by the time you feel bored its already 3-4hrs

Story driven games - Witchers series, Arkham series, God of war series, GTA and Red dead redemption

Software Engineer

System Engineer

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How to effectively and efficiently waste my time?

How to effectively and efficiently waste my time?- Grapevine

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It's more than 1 month now without a job and I waste a lot of time watching YT and stuff. I don't have any other thing to do (than preparing for interviews). How do you guys spend your time?

Age - 22
Previous TC (in hand) - 16 LPA

How do you (jobless) guys spend your time?

I work in remote mode full time, occasionally visit the office, once in 3 months. My office is located in a different city from where I live in.

The work I do is challenging and interesting, but I manage to complete my tasks by working for max 4-5 hours a day. Remaining time of the day, I get distracted, not with household duties but by doing research on random stuff. I want start a company, but I have no idea where to start. I consume a lot of information, yet most of the time I spend goes unproductive. By nature, I am very unorganized. 

Most of my friends are busy in their own world and I don’t want to disturb them seeking advice.

Any idea how I can get over this habit to make productive use of my time, while WFH?

Distracted with WFH setup. Seeking ideas to be more productive.

Software Architect

I have to attend 2-3 hour long zoom meetings daily.
Its basically a scrum call where I get the limelight for 15 mins and for the rest of the time , I sit idle.

In the remaining time, 
1. I watch pubg gameplay videos in mute on YouTube.
2. Surf social media on mute
3. Apply for jobs
4. Remain calm and meditate by watch my breath go in and out.

Can someone please give me more productive/ non- productive ideas to pass time.
Thanks.

How to pass time during zoom meetings?

Data Scientist

Holi hai? Diwali hai? So what, nothing to enjoy. Lets spend the day laying on the bed, watching stuff over phone. Feeling less and less disconnected with friends, to the point where I feel I don't even have friends. College friends are based in another city. Didn't even try to make friends at workplace. Stuck alone in my homecity as past 6 years I was based somewhere else completing my grad and preparing for jee. Prior to that focused a lot on studies. So had little to no interaction with people during academics. And now when I have time and money to spend, there is noone with whom I can have fun with.

The older I get, the lesser my excitement becomes for festivals

Moved to a city from a Village. I felt the same. The reason is that cities are culturally and morally bankrupt.  Except mindless consumerism and inflated egos , cities teach you nothing. 
 The longer one lives in cities, people just become animals in fine clothes.

Consultant

Software Developer

I shifted back to my home after having a happening life for 1 year. My main motivation for wfh was living with my parents as they are getting old, and having time for myself. Now I have time but I just waste it away in OTT and social media. What can I do to be productive? How can I start learning something new or work on a side project? How do I break the wheel of comfort and start?

Spending time in WFH

How many of us can really follow this productivity schedule?

Operations Manager

Overall spending close to 16 hours daily on mobile/laptop/TV

I have been trying to cut back my screen time. 

Thinking of not using phone/laptop for an entire day except for making and receiving calls.

If you also been working towards detoxing yourself digitally, do share what you have been doing and is that working for you? 

Definition of digital detox - A digital detox refers to a period of time when a person refrains from using tech devices such as smartphones, televisions, computers, tablets, and social media sites.

Digital detox : Do you do it? If yes how you do it?

Product Manager

Done with my end-sem, and started building projects and learning new concepts for like 15hr+/day, but now it's getting boring for me(I like working on projects) no physical interactions with friends just sitting in a room and coding😩. bruh sometimes I like watching series, movies, and animes but now that's also getting me bored.

Any suggestion what you all do in such time? I wanted to be productive, spend time where boredom can be escaped but also get some productive output.🫂

Bored After college exams

I am just starting my DSA journey and I wanted to know 
1. Is it a good idea to take notes?
2. What should I add in my notes?
3. Will it be a time waste? If so, what's the alternative?
4. How did you learn DSA?

Did you take notes while learning DSA?

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Is mental health a big problem for all you other PMs ?
Sometimes days, weeks and months are so difficult in aligning , solving and scoping that you have a breakdown .
The constant need to always be on top is exhausting and take a toll.
How do guys handle this ?

Mental Health

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I can see myself falling into the trap of scrolling twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram. Attention spans are fucked.


Failure doesn’t prick like before. 
I’m 26 and I feel I’m physically 10 years older to my age. I feel I’m losing my prime age away.

ChatGPT and AI tools are slowly killing my coding skills too. I used to create tools and projects for fun. Now I’m unable to stay put to take anything to completion. I take AI’s help to write CSS too. 


Thanks to the nature of work I’ve done, I’ve not learnt anything new in the last 2-3 years.

Im not social. I don’t exercise much. I don’t watch movies either.

I don’t have a freaking routine or purpose or goal.

How do I get myself out of this?

How do I get out of this?

Buddy i was in same boat. Start by joining an expensive gym where the money pricks you n trainer follows up with you for diet, progress and mostly you showing up every day. The rest will fix in auto pilot..

Cybersecurity

Hello folks,

I am facing a time management hurdle. I am doing a full time job which takes 9 hrs of my time. Office days you can make it 10. I am also prepping for my GMAT and aiming for a good score (already cancelled my previous 700 in older format, aiming for a 715+ in new GMAT FE). I have gained a bit of weight and BMI is slid into overweight by a narrow margin (83.5 kgs and 181 cms). I am also learning a few things related to my current job to upgrade myself.

So I need to balance: job, prep, health and learning, all seeming mandatory at this point.

I work 2PM - 11PM, have househelp for cleaning and a cook for cooking.

People who have done this before, how did you manage? I am finding it extremely difficult. In theory, it looks easy as there are 24 hrs you know it's not the case. Between all the things I need to catch small breaks as well.

Need advise.

Finding it difficult to manage time

[Situation] If you are in queue where you cannot leave, how will you utilise time? Considering you only have your phone with you.

I spend a sad amount of time mindlessly going through Instagram. Want to cut down, and replace with better apps, that actually make my time better spent. Curious which apps you all use that make you feel better after you use them?

Which app/website do you regularly go to, that makes you feel your time was well spent?

Spending a lot of time on Grapevine now (grapes got me addicted)
It is well until the addiction takes over,

Social media can never make you feel better, they are designed to lure you into unproductive expensive experiences

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Whats the best lesson you've learnt so far in 2024?

I've been trying to actively avoid Social media platforms for the past few years but spending time here feels much more productive and useful compared to most others (bakchodi and comedy is bonus ofc).

Anyone else in the same boat? 😂

Feel like deleting grapevine because I'm spending too much time on it T_T

Generalist

Curious to know what to do folks here do in their working hours when they are having a chill workload week/day in a WFH setup.

I just hopelessly wait for some ping or adhoc task to come up and end up wasting the whole time scrolling the phone.

What to do when bored during working hours

DevOps Engineer

I have a female coworker of mine with whom I have become very good friends with. We talk a lot during office hours. I feel very happy around her and i am able to express myself the most in front of her. I keep thinking about her all the time, even when i am at home, during weekends. However i feel that she only thinks of me as a friend and nothing more. This is based on signals i picked up during various instances, conversations we had. This thing breaks my heart. Also since I dont have a friend group as such to make weekend plans with, i mostly keep thinking about this during weekends sitting at home and this shit has been hurting me a lot. Seeing my other friends insta stories is a final bullet which further pushes me into depression. Sometimes i just feel like being open about this in front of her but then this could take a very bad turn if things dont work out in a happy way. I also cannot completely avoid her since we are in the same team and same project. 

Can someone please help with how to deal with this?

Crush on my teammate is affecting my productivity

First of all uninstall instagram. I have done it and it helped with my social anxiety.

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