I had a kind of job like this once...weeks might go by with nothing at all assigned to work on, and then a sudden hellstorm of unstoppable shit for a few days, then back to boredom.
I tried to work on other things, but you never knew when a pile of nonsense would end up on my table (and the boss was one of those terrible managers who exemplified all the things managers shouldn't do), if I tried to work on anything outside of what my job description entailed, I'd immediately get shot down.
So I slept a lot, worked out, studied languages, anything that could keep me occupied, but wouldn't count as "IP" the company could claim since I did it all on company time.
It was one of the most stressful jobs I've had and I finally just left, even though the pay and benefits were phenomenal.
It would have been better, and I would have been more productive when they needed me, if they had just turned me into an on-call employee with benefits and just let me do whatever else I wanted on the side.
I tried to work on other things, but you never knew when a pile of nonsense would end up on my table (and the boss was one of those terrible managers who exemplified all the things managers shouldn't do), if I tried to work on anything outside of what my job description entailed, I'd immediately get shot down.
So I slept a lot, worked out, studied languages, anything that could keep me occupied, but wouldn't count as "IP" the company could claim since I did it all on company time.
It was one of the most stressful jobs I've had and I finally just left, even though the pay and benefits were phenomenal.
It would have been better, and I would have been more productive when they needed me, if they had just turned me into an on-call employee with benefits and just let me do whatever else I wanted on the side.