| I wouldn't say people like us are lazy, I'm like OP but I feel like I'm rather good at peaking when needed and then identifying useless things nobody ever asks about anymore and just not doing them and getting away with it. I have a pretty rare skill set, combining deep genomics knowledge, system administration (from my hobby) and software development/data science. This means I often understand our full stack which is super rare as a biologist/bio-informatician, at least where I work. Just by interest I listen to a lot of tech podcasts. So I have an informed, strong opinion on how things could be, and it's easy to fake it until I make it by echoing the podcasters whom I respect a lot. Sometimes I feel like somebody is on to me which is uncomfortable, but it may just be imposter syndrome. I mean I did build nice things that I'm proud of and at the rare times that I am really engaged with what I'm building I find it difficult to stop and even relaxing to work on. So maybe at those time I make up for it? I spend a lot of time avoiding boring stuff and seeking out fun things. Also I do a lot things around the house during work times (laundry, taking a shower etc). I just can't focus for very long when I consider something to be not fun. When we were still in the office I used to take pretty long walks or go and talk to people in other offices around campus. I'm also a huge procrastinator, ie, for my bachelors and my PhD theses I skipped 2 nights (or slept 1-2 hours) in the weekends before they needed to be finished and I just wrote non-stop. Pretty stressful. I get very good reviews, and I like to think that it is because I indeed do the most useful things at the right time and provide direction and vision where needed. Also in about half or less of the time my boss thinks I work. I start a lot of new things but hardly ever finish, but one of my previous managers said they like that, they had a lack of new ideas and enough people to grind it out. So there's that. I find it easy to call people in my company in other departments and get them to do things or set something up together, that doesn't really feel like work, I think that also helps, most of my colleagues hate doing this. But if someone did something remotely similar to what I am about to do they can save me a lot of time that I can spend not working. Recently I started working with someone who I feel like is like me, but does work 100% (or maybe it only appears that way!). I find it a bit jarring how well he can estimate my productivity and skills. Then again, maybe he really does underestimate me and I'm having some imposter syndrome, I've never not-delivered when it mattered. Btw, nice topic, I often felt like starting something like this. |