The specific thing you spend the most time doing instead of the actual job you're being paid to do is your new profession. What's your new job title?

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If I didn't make time to do anything besides work and sleep like that I would literally go insane after about 2 weeks

Well that is when I am at work. My work times are clearly defined and when the time is over, I go home. So I am limited to about 8 hours in a day, with a very rare exception of 15 minutes longer.

After work and in the weekends I still have time to chill, but at work I have no downtime except for breaks. Luckily my boss also knows how busy we are and doesn't complain if I cannot get everything finished, he just tells me what is a priority and what not.

That is really helpful for the stress levels, but it is still a pretty stressful job.

What kind of job you work? I hear people talk about having downtime to do nothing all the time on Reddit, but it seems like it's industry dependent. Ex: in healthcare there often isn't much in the way of downtime, but many office workers (obviously position dependent...can't think of specifics now) seem to say they do nothing all day

I work in a warehouse of a company that sells a pretty huge variation of products. I drive fork lifts on a regular basis, but my work is about 50% computer work too. But not in the office, my computer is in the warehouse.

I used to be a computer programmer, but being in the office all day drives me nuts. I need to be a little bit more active and I also like to change my view every now and then.

We have basically no downtime, there is always something to do, we are understaffed, the new hires don't have a clue so all the work comes to the experiences workers. We are also trying to change some processes but we barely have the time.

So for me, the question was just really weird, I cannot imagine having nothing to do. I don't even know what I would do if I have nothing to do. Probably take the day off or something...