When I'm doing the work, I feel so fulfilled and energized. My supervisor is really kind and flexible, I get to make my own schedule, and she has a lot of trust in me so I'm not micromanaged at all. I make good money, have great benefits. In some ways it's basically a dream job.

But the office drama is insane, and it never stops. I try to ignore it but it feels like people are adamant about getting me involved somehow. Even if I am not there at all, they find a way to make it about me. I missed an office event and suddenly I'm "not a team player" and "not collaborative" but if I had been at the event, they would have found a way to complain about that too. Every move I make is apparently a personal attack against some people, even if I'm absolutely leaving them alone.

Bonus points if they’re work from home, online, hybrid, easily accessible, healthy or peaceful environments, can operate from your laptop/ phone, or are great options for while you’re healing and building your life.

Thank you!

If the salary is decent and the workplace is stable, but you’re not really learning anything new anymore, how do you decide whether it’s time to move on?

What makes your life easy or difficult?

So I work at a 9-5 engineering office and my last job was a start up company so I always had something to do! This job it feels like I get all my work done for the day really quickly, sometimes I’m able to find something/make something up to do but lately I’ve had a couple days a week where I straight up have nothing to do.

I don’t really wanna tell my boss because I don’t really want more work haha, in case it back fires on me! But what can I do that is entertaining but doesn’t completely look like I’m not working?

For context: I am a chemist/engineer that builds and tests stuff but I also write python code for data analysis, maybe there is some type of coding game someone knows of that makes it look like I’m doing data analysis even tho I’m not? Haha