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Six hours.

That's how much extra time I'm spent "working" in the form of daily commutes over the course of a two-week pay period.

Obviously, that's not a massive amount of time, but think what you could do with six hours.

Even worse is the fact that the job I've got now has no reason to be an office job. Maybe once or twice a week tops for the meetings we have regularly scheduled, but there's also no reason for those two meetings to be on two separate days. They both weigh in at around twenty minutes, total, and they're not remotely taxing.

My job, in case I hadn't mentioned it before, is that of a business process analyst. Google defines that as

a professional who improves the efficiency and effectiveness of a business by analyzing, designing, and implementing business processes

Which would be solid, except that's not what I do.

I meet with customers for their web app requirements, then translate them into statements (called "user stories") for the developers to use when making their products.

Example:

As a user
I want to log in to the system
So I can perform my tasks

With the accompanying criteria being:

Given a user
When using this particular app
Then I can enter my username and password to be taken to the main dashboard

It's trivial tasking. Doesn't take a lot of time. It's monotonous and routine, which lends itself to being something I very much thrive in.

That being said, I'm having an increasingly difficult time finding the value in it. The paycheck is alright, but I can't wrap my brain around any hypothetical figure that'd make the excessive amount of downtime worth it.

The people are friendly, though. The company has a great atmosphere.

But when left to my own devices, well...

Idle hands and all that.

Not sure how much longer I'll last, but I'm gonna say... two weeks.

Ish.

If I was offered the ability to just do my tasking from home (less the aforementioned meetings) and be on call during the twelve hours we consider our "work hours", that'd be ideal.

I'd even do the damn retroactive rewrites of user stories for the apps we don't use anymore.

But that ain't gonna happen.

Because if they did it for me, they'd have no reason not to do it for the others, and I can't imagine that'd go over very well.

Meh.

Training specialist job interview next week, and Amazon Flex application under review.

Options.