Hi all, I am 4 years out of college, and have had two internships and two full time positions. So far all but one have had problems with staff scheduling. Either there was way too much work all the time for everyone, almost no work all the time for everyone, or a combination of them both depending on the quarter. I have been fortunate enough at least to always be involved in scheduling meetings, so I am very confident in my assessment of the places I have worked at. Is this normal? Are there places out there that usually have most of the team scheduled out for a “normal” amount of billable work? What even is normal? 60 hours? If you’re lucky, 10 billable and the rest is thumb twiddling?

I have worked in both RI and NY

If you want slightly more details: I’ve worked at one place that expected every person to churn out one CD set per week (hard deadline.) I’ve worked somewhere where we could never seem to win jobs and everyone was light all the time except the landscaping team. And I’ve worked at a place where there was both, and no real consistency with the amount of work - so it would swing between being massively understaffed and massively overstaffed.