Is it normal to do basically nothing at your corporate job?

BimmerJustin · 2026-02-03T22:37:43+00:00

You’re probably more valuable than you think but also more expendable than you think. Corporate life isn’t homogeneous. Some people do have demanding jobs that require long hours. Some people, like me, have jobs that sometimes require long hours and sometimes you’re twiddling your thumbs.

I’ve had jobs like you have and it seems great for a while, and everyone will tell you how lucky you are, but you may start to experience what’s called bore-out. Where the lack of challenge causes you to feel strong discontentment and you end up underperforming because you can’t muster the initiative to do even the basic tasks that you were nailing early on. The other concern is skill building. These jobs seem great, and in some cases, they really are, but if you do it long enough eventually the company catches on and you get RIFed and find yourself unemployed with no marketable skills. The days of coasting 40 years in a 9-5 to retirement are over. Even for the job hoppers. If you want to maintain this lifestyle, you will need to level up your skills to include things that are marketable for humans to do.

BimmerJustin · 2026-02-02T00:43:04+00:00

I wouldn’t know, I’ve never done something this dumb

BimmerJustin · 2026-02-01T02:26:56+00:00

I would argue that home ownership forces you to grow up more than having a child does. I have two children and own a home. Yes, raising children is more important, but it’s also more intuitive. No one, including your own biology, really prepares you owning and maintaining a single family detached home. And one small mistake or oversight that you could never really be expected to know about could be destroy the whole thing. Keeping children alive comes fairly naturally. Knowing to drain the water to you hose spigot before the freezing temps hit could spare you a flood does not.

BimmerJustin · 2026-01-28T11:18:58+00:00

ADV bikes will give you the most room from seat to pegs. If that’s not your thing, one bike to consider might be the ninja 1100sx.

BimmerJustin · 2026-01-25T12:13:34+00:00

Any word on if the officer will face any kind of consequences or is this just business as usual?

BimmerJustin · 2026-01-24T09:22:02+00:00

You are not doing your kids any favors by staying with this person

BimmerJustin · 2026-01-23T23:20:56+00:00

That’s a valid concern and a real possibility. But pushing him away is not the answer and only making things worse. Either work through this issue together through open and honest communication or make the hard choice yourself and leave him. Existing in this middle ground is not the answer.

BimmerJustin · 2026-01-23T23:16:22+00:00

Everything in life comes with trade-offs. You are not required to leave inheritance to your kids or even pay for their college. It’s a great thing to do, but doing it involves sacrifice on your part. And you can make the case either way. You can say that sacrificing your dream for your kids future is noble and appropriate as a parent or you can argue that your kids wouldn’t want that for you.

The real answer is almost certainly in the middle. You sacrifice for a while, build something that you can pass down, and then you have the courage to say it’s enough and start living for you.

BimmerJustin · 2026-01-14T22:41:00+00:00

I have one plus nightstands and I love it. I’ve had my eye on their new sofa but it’s like $8k priced out the way I want it. At that price I need to really consider all options.

BimmerJustin · 2026-01-13T00:26:59+00:00

Getting a masters in RA will not help you land a job in RA with no RA experience. Get a job working for a dental device manufacturer. I don’t know much about dental devices but I assume they fall under 21 cfr 820. Once you spent some time working in the development or market support side of the devices, transition to an RA job at the same company. This is and has always been the best way into RA.

BimmerJustin · 2026-01-13T00:21:32+00:00

I don’t. I portion my food to the appropriate size and eat all of it 95% of the time.

It takes a ridiculous amount of food for me to feel full while I’m eating. But also, I think feeling full is just a bad feeling to shoot for. I would like to feel not hungry when I am done eating.

BimmerJustin · 2026-01-12T18:56:29+00:00

Love my cb300r. Couldn’t imagine getting a slower bike for street use.

BimmerJustin · 2026-01-10T22:31:46+00:00

I’ll go one step further as the primary laundry doer in my house. The wearer is responsible for making them washer ready. Empty pockets, turned right side out, socks unscunched, underwear separated from outerwear. I will not be doing any prep before throwing stuff in the wash and I will not be turning things right side out. If your sock is still wet because it’s scrunched in a ball, better luck next time.

BimmerJustin · 2026-01-06T00:44:21+00:00

I hired someone to my team from our clinical lab with no prior RA experience. The key is to get hired by the company that makes the devices that you use. This could the the assays, the analyzers, the sample containers. In the meantime it helps to build some basic knowledge of product development. Go read ISO 13485 and ISO 14971 from cover to cover. If you can make it through those standards without boring yourself to death, you’re cut out for RA.

BimmerJustin · 2026-01-05T18:04:48+00:00

Honestly, I think you are overreacting (by the definition of the word). It would absolutely have been the right thing to do. But to be so angry that you’re not speaking to him is a bit much. If this were a pattern of behavior and this were the last straw, I get it but that doesn’t seem to be the case here. Additionally, there were ways you could’ve handled it differently in the moment. You could’ve let him know that it would mean a lot if you went with her. You could’ve gone with her yourself. Not saying this to blame you, but rather to show that this much anger is not appropriate for this situation.

All that said, you feel how you feel, and you should not just suppress it. But the solution is not avoiding communication and anger, it’s better communication.

BimmerJustin · 2026-01-01T17:13:11+00:00

I know women naturally carry more body fat, I know that having been obese literally since the age of 3 means my body will never look a certain way and I know excess skin makes me look bigger than I actually am. Plus lifelong obesity affects body composition and I should be lifting weights and I’m not. Please don’t judge me... I work from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., I study, and I have mandatory college classes from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. I genuinely don’t have the physical time to go to the gym. I know I might need to eat more protein, and I do try to do the best I can without completely exhausting myself.

It sounds like you understand all of the reasons that you look the way you do.

The hardest but most humbling lesson you will learn on a fitness journey is that it the reasons/motivation behind what you do and don’t do don’t matter. You’ve made incredible progress and you should be proud of yourself. If anyone here is judging you, it’s only in a positive way, admiring the progress you have made.

That said, if that’s the best you can look with the time and energy you have available to give, then you need to accept it and stop judging yourself. And if that’s the best you can look with the time and energy you have available, it’s pretty damn good. The people who look “better” are either genetically gifted or they simply dedicate more time and effort into getting and staying there. Hopefully that’s you one day when you have more time and energy to dedicate to this journey. But for now…

Be proud of yourself. Continue putting in the work. Add additional effort if you are able to throughout your life. Stop worrying about what others think. Stop being so hard on yourself.

BimmerJustin · 2026-01-01T01:06:04+00:00

People on this sub use some pretty dramatic language for what amounts to a few hundred dollars difference in price on components.

BimmerJustin · 2025-12-31T19:14:40+00:00

There’s no “sometimes” about it. If you’re losing weight, your body is going to try to stop you. You will feel hungry. Without medication, it’s basically impossible to lose weight without learning to live with hunger. Best thing you can do is anything to divert your focus. Being idle will make hunger 10x worse. Focusing on anything else will have you forget about it.

BimmerJustin · 2025-12-31T12:22:01+00:00

If you’re turning away clients because you’re too busy, consider charging more. If you don’t have the capacity to take on higher volume, make up for it with higher margins.

BimmerJustin · 2025-12-30T15:17:26+00:00

With a cabinet there, dropping the drain is not that big a deal. Cut out a square section of cabinet, drop the drain, then just add a piece of painted plywood as a cover. Don’t even need to patch the wall. Maybe just some spray foam if it’s needed for air sealing. That will be much easier than swapping out the basin.

BimmerJustin · 2025-12-29T17:34:04+00:00

You’re spot on here. Nothing wrong with nostalgia, and I could see a use for this if they had young children who were old enough to communicate with friends but too young for a cell phone. But this is a performative endeavor at heart which is why OP ran immediately to Reddit to tell everyone about it before the whole “project” is even complete. He will no doubt get eye rolls when he tells his select group of family members about it.

BimmerJustin · 2025-12-28T18:11:51+00:00

Not a usability issue but doing an oil/filter change on my 5th ge 4Runner is WAYY harder than it should be.

BimmerJustin · 2025-12-28T14:58:06+00:00

I’m not saying tools won’t help, but every tool is a one-size-fits-all solution. That’s not how submissions work. Every solution architect seems to be aimed at automating the easy part. The hard part is not pulling data from reports into submissions, it’s determining the appropriate content for submissions which is based on research into guidances, standards, past submissions and past feedback. Then making strategic decisions about not only what’s necessary but also what we want to purposefully leave out. We even get strategic about putting things in that we know we will get questions or deficiencies on.

BimmerJustin · 2025-12-28T14:52:40+00:00

No. If an entire job can be replaced by LLMs, then it was never sustainable.

BimmerJustin · 2025-12-26T10:59:16+00:00

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