Running into a situation here.
I joined a environmental consulting firm a week ago and was assigned a new project during my first week. The project looks exciting since it will go from feasibility to actual implementation (groundwater related). However, right now we are mostly waiting for and re-organizing data from the client oversea (mining company in Africa).
Thus as a new hire at the junior level, my billable hours are likely to be quite low for the next few weeks.
My questions is: shall I look for some repetitive yet short term tasks from other project teams just to be billable during the waiting period ? At the same time, I do want to stick to this good project which is likely to pick up its pace after couple months.
Of course I could just wait out a bit without doing anything other than doing non-billable training and background research on my own. Perhaps it's the management's responsibility to make sure my billability is above acceptable level? (>80%)
Thanks for any input !
I joined a environmental consulting firm a week ago and was assigned a new project during my first week. The project looks exciting since it will go from feasibility to actual implementation (groundwater related). However, right now we are mostly waiting for and re-organizing data from the client oversea (mining company in Africa).
Thus as a new hire at the junior level, my billable hours are likely to be quite low for the next few weeks.
My questions is: shall I look for some repetitive yet short term tasks from other project teams just to be billable during the waiting period ? At the same time, I do want to stick to this good project which is likely to pick up its pace after couple months.
Of course I could just wait out a bit without doing anything other than doing non-billable training and background research on my own. Perhaps it's the management's responsibility to make sure my billability is above acceptable level? (>80%)
Thanks for any input !