This is exactly how I feel, except I also have technical responsibilities, meetings dominate my day. Some technical meetings sure, but a lot of status and syncs

This is exactly how I feel, except I also have technical responsibilities, meetings dominate my day. Some technical meetings sure, but a lot of status and syncs, and a lot of email. I'm lucky to get an hour a day between 9 and 5 to engineer. I've often fondly remembered when I had 3 meetings a week and the rest was just productive time and I could churn out code or work on workflow improvements, automation, etc.