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[quote=Anonymous]I am a Federal Employee and I have also had periods of time that I was bored, but I always either found a new group with more suitable work or waited until the work flowed in. Some positions have slow periods followed by extremely busy periods. Often, when you're new, you are simply not able to jump in for various reasons and it takes time before you can be truly effective. Other times you become a subject matter expert and your work feels slow because they've essentially put you in a place where having you there makes other people work much faster, because you can answer questions or whatever, so you may be providing value, but still feel useless. You can't tell that this far in, though. I'd imagine this is just being new.

Contrary to popular belief, and comments throughout DCUM, this is not a norm for government work. The fact that you're bored means that you aren't lazy. Government work requires a lot of self start. You need to be motivated. If you feel like this now, and you're asking for work, you will be fine. Keep doing what you're doing, be respectful to your bosses, and if it doesn't get more exciting, use your new federal status to look for something better in a year. [/quote]

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