I have a friend who works as a "make this mess a product we can show in conferences" engineer in a research center and it is literally what you described. The

I have a friend who works as a "make this mess a product we can show in conferences" engineer in a research center and it is literally what you described. The only reason he told me for still working there, is that: 1- the workload is fairly low 2- he has a lot of autonomy 3- he shows up every day around noon and leaves at 5PM