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I have had this job before. You have two choices. 1. Start a side gig. Be busy at work make extra money. 2. Work on open source. Find a project you like or w

• bruce511 3y ago
  Another alternative is to become actually useful in that spare time. Doing what depends on the business - it can take some detective work to figure it out. Then again, the detective work could quickly show this is someplace you don't want to be long-term. In which case yeah, find something productive to do, or treat this as that paid learning time to build some new skills. Best part of learning is test it's defensible ... "oh, I'm busy doing an assessment on the pros and cons of rewriting the system using node.js. "
• langsoul-com 3y ago
  You cannot legally do 1 or 2. They'd both belong to the company because ip work laws
  • alfanick 3y ago
    That purely depends on jurisdiction (country, there is no world universal law) and your contract. A lot of companies smuggle that in a contract, often they’re happy to drop these kind of clauses.
  • justsomehnguy 3y ago
    Depends on the country.