3 years, one of the biggest O+G companies in the world, seconded into a function that 90% of the time was 5 or 10% busy, also away from home on 2 weeks on 2 wee

3 years, one of the biggest O+G companies in the world, seconded into a function that 90% of the time was 5 or 10% busy, also away from home on 2 weeks on 2 weeks off. Everyone else thought it was a dream. I went from doing complex h/w and s/w systems design and troubleshooting to adding little to no value every day, plus 2000km away from home. I started to lose my mind, mostly manifested as internet shopping and pranking/teasing the juniors, followed by a fairly long period of over a year with some kind of pseudo narcolepsy I could not control. Photos abound of me asleep at the desk... Did Comp TIA+ and a few other courses, but somehow it is hard to keep the apathy at bay and focus on something you are just doing without a specific purpose. Some days I ran out of internet to browse, which is saying something. I agreed to go because we were a little quiet for work in the office and pay was pretty high, but in retrospect it wasn't worth it and I should have just gone back and taken what projects came up.