> > This work that appears in the last hour of your shift - can you save it and do it the next day? Or is the problem that your job could actually be done properly in 5 hours a week?
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> Actually my job is somewhat unusual in the sense that it has lots of variance in workload through the year.
> I work in consulting, so depending on the phase of the project we are going through we either have to work nights for a month, or we have nothing to do all day for a month.
> It is frustrating most of the time to know that you are slacking off now but in a month you will not be able to get any sleep.
> Unfortunately, my workload is determined mostly by other people's work.

If your workload is that highly cyclical, maybe you can do other productive things in your down time, like re-organizing your office, planning for future work, or even writing a book.

Otherwise, I feel for you. I've had alternating cycles of little-to-no-work and supercrazybusyeverythingisurgentspendthenightattheoffice!, and it sucks.

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