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In some programming roles - especially during the pandemic - the amount of work you can get away with doing is significantly below what you think. You probably overestimate how much attention people pay to what you're doing and underestimate how easy it is to make a ticket sound harder than it is. And, here in Europe, you can be paid multiple months' wages between clearly giving up and being fired.

Perhaps the most important factor: if you have two jobs, you don't care about being fired.

Source: I'm an immoral, lazy, singly-employed person.