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 2 days 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 2 days ago (1 children)

ADHD brain is built for sprints, not marathons

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 days 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 2 days 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.