Seriously, most office jobs are like 30% actual work and 70% communicating that you're available if something comes up.
I've gotten closer to formal reprimands from forgetting to answer emails or missing meetings on occasion than I ever have for work getting delayed. Nobody gives a shit if a forty-line script takes me three days to get around to doing, but if I don't call in advance that I'm gonna miss this week's morning huddle, I have to spend an hour back-and-forth on emails with my boss' boss about how I had something important going on and, yes, I will let you know ahead of time if it comes up again, and I'm very sorry, my apologies.
A lot of jobs are reactive and they require you to be "present". If you do some productive stuff like moving things around, facilitating knowledge production or merely oversee things to get done in schedule, you are no better or worse than the person putting 80 hrs.
I literally work like 5-10 hours a week and my supervisor still tells me what a good job I'm doing and how important I am to our department
The thing is... you probably are.
Seriously, most office jobs are like 30% actual work and 70% communicating that you're available if something comes up.
I've gotten closer to formal reprimands from forgetting to answer emails or missing meetings on occasion than I ever have for work getting delayed. Nobody gives a shit if a forty-line script takes me three days to get around to doing, but if I don't call in advance that I'm gonna miss this week's morning huddle, I have to spend an hour back-and-forth on emails with my boss' boss about how I had something important going on and, yes, I will let you know ahead of time if it comes up again, and I'm very sorry, my apologies.
A lot of jobs are reactive and they require you to be "present". If you do some productive stuff like moving things around, facilitating knowledge production or merely oversee things to get done in schedule, you are no better or worse than the person putting 80 hrs.
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