I do something that probably appears this way, i spend the first few months working extra hard to find ways to be maximally lazy going forward. I highly recommend it.
I’m a software engineer and involved in hiring, and I love hiring lazy devs, they’ll automate the boring parts away leaving just the interesting stuff.
Seem very competent, work hard, understand all the processes and help review or improve products…
That way no one comes back to my office to check on me and notice I’m playing BG3 at the desk instead of working.
In 10 years, the only ones who will remember that you worked late and on weekends will be your family.
Your work won’t remember and won’t care.
Okay, but how am I supposed to afford the food for my kids without the overtime?
Well, that’s your fault for being poor.
Start stealing from people below you and stop paying some percentage of your tax as close to 100% as is financially sustainable.
Starting a new job tomorrow, I’m hyped by the in house canteen, gimme cheap balanced healthy food and a break thanks
Where I work they’d fuss at you for skipping lunch
Meanwhile I’m here skipping lunch because I have no sense of time when I’m solving an interesting problem.
Same. I legitimately like my job and sometimes skip because I’m doing something interesting. In general, the harder the problem, the more fun I’m having.
That said, I’m a manager and I absolutely tell my people to take breaks.
Every moment I have one on one time with a junior coworker and we talk about workload, I remind them that it’s a multibillion dollar corporation and it is not your friend.
Some of them get it.
I have a junior that keeps mentioning burn out, and I largely tell them the same thing. Working hard a couple times a year to keep a project on time may be worth it to make a good impression on my boss and make it easier for me to promote you (2-3 things for me to mention is plenty), but you don’t want anyone to expect you to continue this long term. Chill 90% of the time and push occasionally to make a good impression, anything more is wasted effort.
Not that, but I just feel weird to do anything but non-stop work during work time, so I’ll drink less water to not have to use a toilet during the 6 hours till break/end (just a part-time job).
Once I was told to wait for something without being officially put on waiting time, and I just felt weird standing there doing nothing, because officially I was supposed to be working.
When I was told that I am too slow (based on statistics for the day) and once that I did something wrong I took that quite personally. And fearing a negative point basically flooded my mind, meaning I couldn’t quite concentrate, meaning I was more prone to further mistakes, which just made me fear more… positive feedback loop of fear.I don’t know, I’ve been there for over a year. I just kind of have a dog-like “pleasing the owner” mentality. As such, getting an email saying I got a positive point feels pretty good.
