I need some advice. I got a new job back in may of this year. Very excited for a new opportunity to learn some new things and get a higher paycheck. I started and have gotten a few projects but they haven’t consistently been giving me hardly any work to do. I’m not resourced enough. I told my manager I have a lot of free time. I also work fully remote. I am feeling very unfulfilled and not sure what I should do next. I am very self motivated and want to make great work but not sure what to do.

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Do you have an actual resource manager you could speak to? How is your boss doing - maybe you can make their life easier and take something off their plate? Some folks here will probably point you to a side hustle but idk about that…

I do maybe 10 hours of work per week, with no professional development or interesting work on the horizon really. Working at startups where I had to be nimble got me used to constantly having novel challenges presented to me to fix, and now at a big company I sometimes even forget who I work for, or what we do. I'm so compartmentalized and underutilized that it might as well not matter to me.

Recently, what's worked for me is just jumping into freelance and solo projects. Growing my network, spending my day doing what actually interests me, and working toward a level-up exit strategy that will hopefully come with a bigger paycheck too.

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