I have periods like these. And then I have periods where I obsess about work, and about not producing enough, which makes me work extra hours to compensate. Aft

I have periods like these. And then I have periods where I obsess about work, and about not producing enough, which makes me work extra hours to compensate. After 20 years in development I think this is "sort of" normal, not for everyone and especilly not at every company. In my experience its more common the larger the comany gets. First, its easier to not be noticed too much, and then there is the normal inefficiencies which makes it so thay you might not even be _able_ to be productive at work. At the moment, I have been tasked with "test stability". I am unsure how exactly to proceed, and I have already mentioned that repeatedly running 2 hour tests to see where they fail, and when, is very time-consuming and inefficient, but people around me simply are expecting me to be somewhat inefficient at the moment. Having worked at exclusively large workplaces the last 10 or so years I am getting used to this. Also having worked on safety-rated systems conditions you to take it slooow, never rush things. Taking time is much more ok than being wrong.