The specific thing you spend the most time doing instead of the actual job you're being paid to do is your new profession. What's your new job title?

weirdly I'm still a Linux administrator but with way more fun services to maintain.

Huh, I now get paid to waste time staring at the internet. Neat, I guess?

'office/M365 tutor for geriatrics'

Compared to actual title

"Director of Information Systems"

Every day makes me understand Marvin from HHGTTG more and more.

RN = Refreshments and Narcotics

Director of building Magic the Gathering commander decks but not actually playing them

Greeeeat, now I'm jerking off someone for money.

Jokes aside, writing is the predominant single activity I engage in that's in the spirit of the question, and I've made some money doing it here and there. But it was never my job.

As an Uber driver, I do everything I can to put people at ease. I end up in many deep, heartfelt conversations with my passengers. I introduce people to new music, and spread information about homeless assistance programs and other resources around the Denver area.

Uber is the platform from which I do my work as a community supporter.

I do Uber my own way, according to my vision. I am an Uber Mensch.

Professional slanderer of programming languages.

I've spent more time than I care to admit

You guys have time for other things? I do my job and can fill my day with that. I sometimes have to stand my ground to make other people understand that no, I cannot do this additional tasks everyday, I don't have the time for that.

95% of the time it is busy. The other 5% I use to catch up with the stuff I have no time for when it is busy.

Professional Cat Petter! 😻

Guitarist/cross stitcher, with a side job as a professional TV watcher lol

Professional manual analysis of herbal terpinoid content (ignition-form expert).

Professional YouTube Watcher or Professional Hobbyist Language Learner.

I'm a professional social media browser.

I think I'd actually kill myself.

Professional sleeper.

That should pretty much be the answer for anyone with a full-time job.

There was this Russian developer who got jailed for something a couple years back. I've looked up his website and it was a giant field of mines. Up to the challenge, I've proceeded for weeks to try to clear it during work hours. Finally managed and all I got was something akin to a laugh.wav as a reward.

Guess I'm a minesweeper.

Linux admin 😌

I really don't want to play Arma professionally I misunderstood the question

I basically do farming at the level of a second job, so I suppose it would be that even though I don't do it commercially (yet).

Power point archivist and people tracker downer!

Sleeping

Human Lemming

One thing I spend some time on is building out my Lego city.

Current Job title: programmer

Effective job title: Sysadmin.

Linux Sysadmin. Funnily enough, that's the career I'm in after procrastinating a lot during my ecology studies.

Coffee taster..

Professional flight simulator pilot. I can fly a Boeing 737, 747, 777, 787, Airbus A300, A310, A320, McDonnell Douglas MD-11, and BAe 146, as long as there are no system failures and I can access my Navigraph charts.

Time compression would be great for those long haul flights as well. NYC to Tokyo in a few hours at 4x time would be sweet.

Please refer to me as Total War XMunk in the future. I shall reign terror upon this land.

Well, either that or I'm now a professional pilgrim... gosh, I wish you could get paid for just walking a lot.

Pro golfer or sword fighter. Can't complain

Professional Guinea pig Petter

VR game level designer. Neat!

Sysadmin cosplayer or Barista.

Either a Game Developer or a Writer. If only...

I'm a professional drinker.

I'm a pro TTRPG think-abouter... Or a pro Pathfinder prepper.

Professional Kingdom of Loathing player, I guess! I may spend more time on other things, but other than biological necessities, KoL is the only thing I do every day no matter where I am 😁

Without looking too far my prediction is to see 2 varations of replies mostly:

1.) I do something completely unrelated and enjoyable because my job is chill, or I'm good at it, and so on...

2.) I actually do my boss's job and maybe even their bosses' jobs,, because I actually do the work that gets done, but am still paid at peon-level.

Well, I would be a comic book creator... With video game screenshots.

Is this specifically things we do during work hours more than our actual job? Or what we choose to do with our free time?

Cause if it's slacking off at work, sadly, I am probably now a professional Solitaire player. If it's in my free time... Well, my ADHD keeps me hopping from activity to activity so often let's just call it "Special Projects Manager"...

I’m a nanny! 😄

Researcher, or Lemmy account manager.

Catcher of grasshoppers for my chickens. Waterer of trees. Fermenteer.

Tobacconist and Sommelier.

Writing my next novel, which incidentally I do mostly during my work time that my employer pays for.

Tracing shapes & cutting them out.

It's like 20% sewing, the other 80% being planning, geometry, resource management, tracing, and cutting.

And I often discover that I'm still bad at math! Pain. 🫠

Professional click hero

Dad

I really hope everyone’s answer is professional sleeper, otherwise we have some very unhealthy people.

I watch anime professionally? I guess I'm writing anime reviews now, or something?

Looks like I'm getting paid to play video games. I'll take it!

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Fucking-off Engineer.

Code talker?

Nazi Hunter.

Dogsitter, probably, since I work from home and thus "sit" my own dog all the time

Professional Factory Idle eSports

Looks like I'm a professional sleeper...

Time for some OT! 😴

I mostly proofread serialized web fiction, but I dabble in social media.

either driver or student.