I used to be a security analyst which meant I spent a lot of my day waiting for a security incident to either happen or be escalated to me. Now I’m a consultant

I used to be a security analyst which meant I spent a lot of my day waiting for a security incident to either happen or be escalated to me. Now I’m a consultant which means I spent a lot of time waiting on clients. I’ve come to appreciate semi-mindless games like Rimworld, Cities: Skylines, Factorio, The Sims, or clicker games on my phone. I can fill my waiting time with those which I find fun, but they don’t require so much of my attention that I miss a client email or Slack message come in and I can quickly switch back. It’s still wasting time, but it’s less mentally exhausting than trying to switch to something more “productive” for a few minutes.