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I’m pretty sure ignoring what my manager told me to do would have gotten me fired relatively quickly at every job I’ve ever had.



haha ya, my comment isn't full fleshed out. I think I got too excited. I should have added that I spend about 10% of my time working rogue which is much different than what I wrote.


That is a little different. ;) Is that 10% in addition to the 100% you were spending before, or are you spending 90% of your time doing what you’re told and 10% on other things? I’m thinking here of stuff like Googlers referring to 20% time as 120% time, and such.


I know many people that take the %120 approach, but I take the 80/20 approach. I have a lot of kids and volunteer a lot outside of work so I don't want to make time for 120.




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