Thanks for humoring me. For context, my day job is not software development; I'm a command judge advocate in the Marine Corps, meaning I manage the legal portfo

Thanks for humoring me. For context, my day job is not software development; I'm a command judge advocate in the Marine Corps, meaning I manage the legal portfolio, which most coworkers (outside the Commanding Officer) have limited visibility on. I find a lot of my coworkers have an attitude like yours, and I find it incredibly frustrating. We spend huge amounts of time talking about doing work, and not enough time actually doing work. I spend upwards of three hours a day just talking to people and not making any actual headway on mission-critical projects. I agree with your reply to me that it may really come down to the different types of jobs. In your initial post it seemed like your position was that only rock stars rated "head down working" time. I think my position is more analogous to the "deep algorithm" module developer.