Found this applies nicely to my career. Routineish work? Drag my feet and fight myself to do anything. Fixing problems (bigger the better)? Everybody stand back, I got it.

Whole damn system failed due to a database failure that propagated to our secondary host too. Hacked our backup to usable in a day (meeting most requirements, including transition requirements) with a path forward for total system recovery on the main system.

Documentation on any of that though, that was a .. struggle.

[–] Undaunted@feddit.org 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That resonates so well with me. Attending all the meetings, discussing feature requests and evaluating their feasibility is so exhausting. But working overtime for a few days to find and fix the bug that completly halted production? No problem!

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

ADHD brain is built for sprints, not marathons

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 9 points 10 months ago

The problem is that management picked up on that and now everything is a "sprint." A never-ending marathon of sprints.

[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

Same here. Daily business I have to push me to get through the work. Major outage and everyone runs around like headless chicken? I'm the one keeping it cool and organising that everything comes back.