>2. If your manager doesn't have something in particular they want you to do, you should figure out what they will want you to do in the future, and make any necessary preparations so that it will be doable when they want it.

Fuuuuck no. If he thinks you did it in 24 hours then he’ll expect you to do it in 24 hours next time too, instead of the three weeks it actually took you.

Work on something amazing. Also, who doesn’t have something to do???