Is it possible to be exhausted from not working? Things at work have been so slow since the beginning of December, I feel more stressed than if we were busy. My days are unfocussed, and with that goes a certain amount of guilt. I want to be productive, but I’m not being asked to do very much. And I either lack the motivation to start my own projects, or feel guilty working on them, like I’m stealing company time. It doesn’t help that my boss and I share the same tiny office space. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how service based companies work. We depend on a certain flow of work, and when the flow isn’t continuous (and it never is), we need people who know how to manage the flow so that the workers think it’s continous. This allows them be more productive and it reduces their stress. This is true when there is too much work as well as when there is not enough. Part of it is good time management, and part of it is just good communication. This is what I want to do, to be the “flow managing” guy. I suppose this is what project managers do. Well, I guess that’s what I should be preparing to do.