If you're spending a lot of time waiting, don't hold back from using it to learn new things, especially those with any sort of link or potential future use to t

If you're spending a lot of time waiting, don't hold back from using it to learn new things, especially those with any sort of link or potential future use to the current company. Don't worry if it's tenuous. There is direct work asked of you to contribute, prioritize that, but there is general knowledge that you and the company can benefit from - even if they don't know how to use it in the moment. Another skill is navigating politics of companies and getting to a point where you can make efficiency changes or being able to influence the path when the opening comes to make a change.