My hours have been cut to 15h/wk. What to do with spare time with Corona

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The cut was offered by my company as a way to scale down during the pandemic without cutting jobs and I took it. No big deal, it's still enough money and that's not the topic I want to discuss in this thread.I'm getting seriously bored, but I can't come up with anything interesting to do with the spare time.It would normally not be an issue: I'd play the console, go for a bike ride, read a book... But for some reason none of that is appealing right now.How to deal with the extra time without going nuts while the pandemic is going on? How do you cope if you've been laid off or just hold a regular full time job where there is only 2-4h worth of work per day?

smdz · Accepted Answer

I was in a similar situation before 2008. The reason was not cut in hours. It was a new job and there was not enough work and I was paid in full. Over an entire week I had only 6-10 hours of work, and in the prior job I was doing 12-14 hours daily.
First thing is to allow yourself to be bored for a while. Decide not to do anything till a fixed date. Ideas will pop up and just write those down (on paper) as they do. Limit your time on internet for 1-2 hours a day. Sleep more and exercise a bit (do not strain). Within a week you should see your mood improved and will have fresh ideas.
For me the low-workload period was long (approx 1.5 years). I learnt music, stock-trading and some new recipes for cooking.

kmbd · Answer

besides my WFH full-time as technical manager, I'm planning to complete the certificate course for Google Cloud Architect