Anyone in consulting and doing OE? Using bench time for J2+ seems like a good opportunity in this environment, considering it wouldn’t look out of place to remain on the bench for quite a while

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You can do it without using bench time, but it helps. If you try to delegate and push work off until the evening you can manage multiple roles.

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