Type A needs to coast
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Anonymous
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Got to ride out a crap job until the fall. I’m type A workaholic, coasting is not in my DNA.
Give me ideas on ways to coast without being obvious. Hoping for a new role this fall. |
Anonymous
| Strictly work your schedule (9-5, or whatever). Not a minute more. This is the only thing you need to do. |
Anonymous
| Wear headphones and listen to podcasts. |
Anonymous
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I would just work in my dream, no initiative way:
Never set up a meeting. You can accept them or set one up if explicitly requested Document things. Just work on documentation projects, tidying, sort email. Take every other Friday off or schedule lots of appointments If I person and you are extroverted set up lots of coffee chats. |
Anonymous
| Why do you need to coast? Maybe being type A in a job you're ready to leave is being super ambitious until you leave 10 unfinished projects with 2 weeks notice. Maybe it's not signing up for anything new but crushing the backlogs that have been left by the last 3 people in your job. |
Anonymous
| Find a side project that benefits you, that can take up the extra time you would normally be giving to this job. |
Anonymous
| Same boat. Extremely toxic workplace. High performer under a retention agreement. Need to find a way to completely disassociate from the drama and buffoonery, work exactly 8 hrs and only on specifically assigned deliverables until I can peace out. Much easier to say than do. But, I need to preserve my mental health somehow. |
Anonymous
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Can you busy your brain/Type A in some other way that allows you to coast at work while still maintaining busyness, or appearance of busyness?
Take a class in something work related or not Learn a computer language / programming or a foreign language Learn some skill - like ARC GiS, or sign language or just anything you can self pace Listen to something entertaining, like podcasts Exercise - whoops, off to a meeting and spend two hours at the gym or power walking Write a novel Get into geneology- that's staring intently at the computer based, so you'd look busy Write a story of your family Organize all your photos Work from home as much as you can - paint one wall each day you work from home Dive deep into some facet of your job you do like and document, or process improve, or something find a research project you can run over a summer and publish Write and publish for your work |
Anonymous
Make the be all end all transition memo and process manual for your team as you leave them behind. Charts and graph your type A to your heart’s content. |
Anonymous
| Personally, I need outside interests to be able to really disconnect from work. I dislike my job right now so I've started exercising, cooking, making lunch dates with friends, volunteering at the kid's school. It's all made it much easier to disconnect and do the bare minimum at work. |
Anonymous
| Since you want another gig, I’d focus on building your brand and professional identity and doing things you enjoy at the office. Mentoring, affinity groups, connecting with people you find interesting. Go to some conferences related to what you do that would expand your perspective. Do something with professional groups. Etc. |
Anonymous
NP this is brilliant! Do you have more idea?! And I’m in same boat OP, we need to preserve our sanity, and find someplace to channel our energies, doing nothing and bare minimum is not enough to sustain me either. |