Recently left consulting to join a big tech co in a BizOps role. While I like what I am doing, I get quite bored at work. I barely work for 5-6 hours a day, sometimes even less. Anything I could do to upskill myself? I don’t know much about tech world, any trainings/courses I could do? My role involves heavy interactions with engineers, want to be able to understand the foundational tech stuff

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the drive to constantly and forever be buried in work is wild to me. you’re making more money on an absolute basis. you’re making materially more on a $/hr basis. you now have free time to chase secondary projects, create an upstart, or just get out and do you like JPM suggested….like, what’s the problem here?

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I don’t think I said I have a problem. I am looking for suggestions/advice on how best to use my free time so it will help my career in the long run

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This is literally my dream.

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Dont do that. Focus on building your power base across the org. That'll help with promos much more than "skills" ever will

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you do this through quid pro quo

Find a side hustle or hobby you love - write that novel, learn guitar, take that dance class...

My pre-MBA job took maybe 4-5 hours a day but I still kept my life very full & enjoyable

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You could take classes from the free software engineering open source courses. Search for same and you can find a full curriculum.

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Depends on what you like. AI/ML is a pretty hot topic right now and can recommend Andrew Ng Stanford coursea course - no need to pay for it, just audit and do the projects (GitHub)

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this is the right answer^

What would you like to do?

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Same but in pharma - I am done by 1 PM most days...

I was - it's an MBA I internship which I am doing now.

Sign me up. Are you hiring?

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