This sounds similar to a part time job I had while in college (15+ years ago). Caveat: I was already a programmer (studied computer science in college). I was h

This sounds similar to a part time job I had while in college (15+ years ago). Caveat: I was already a programmer (studied computer science in college). I was hired as a part time student programmer at this place. The hiring manager that gave me the offer either transferred to another department or was on leave (can't remember which now), either way, I basically hadn't seen him during the entire 7 months or so I worked there. His subordinate was the only person who had any idea I was even there and could give me any work. He would give me some simple task of writing up some documentation or code some simple demos using some libraries, every once in a while. Everything I did over those 7 months amount to about 1 week of work for me. Every time he gave me a task, I would finish within a few hours, and there wouldn't be anything else for me to do for the next couple of weeks. I was a student at the time so I was able to spend most of my work hours doing homework or programming assignments for classes. If it was a full time job I would definitely do what you do, tinker with AWS, code up projects, etc.