Then either your boss or yourself are shit at managing workloads properly. If you can't take 10min it's too much work for you.
I mean the whole point is for them to extract value from me which I understand. Where I'm from we have designated break time in the work day. It's not that I don't get any breaks, but an additional 10 minutes per hour would certainly have a noticeable impact. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by a "pause" - I'm not firing on all cylinders the entire time, that's for sure.
You think you're special and can't get burnt out? May I ask if you're over 30 yet?
I didn't say I was special. I meant that my calendar is not jam-packed, thankfully. It's maybe 1 or 2 reminders per day at most, for short tasks that I need remember to do at certain times. In fact these tasks tend to be even easier and less taxing than regular work, and using the calendar as a reminder means that I'm not committing any brain power to remember them which helps too. I have experienced burnout at a previous job and this is nowhere close. I do appreciate your concern though.
Blank slate. If it's a written character they have to be really cool, like Solid Snake. I'd rather my character just not say anything and let me play the game.
If I took a 10 minute pause every hour I would fall behind in my work and that would be overwhelming. Most of the reminders I'm setting are for super short tasks to check if something is complete because it's urgent for whatever reason.
I agree that having a calendar jam-packed all the time would be a recipe for burnout, but in my case it makes it easier to stay on track with certain things, and just work normally the other 95% of the time.
I didn't mind him in Parks and Rec for a while, but after some time he just had nothing to offer. He's the weakest link for me.
Guardians and Jurassic Park could have been played by anyone and I wouldn't miss him in those. He just seems like a nothing-burger that stumbles into success repeatedly.
This is what I do too. If there is something really stuck on then you can put it back on the stove and add a little water which will sizzle and lift the rest up with minimal scraping.
Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. In case anyone sees this and is wondering, I picked up Assetto Corsa. The price was right and it looks like what I'm looking for, for now.
I also will keep an eye on BallisticNG and a few others.
Shout out to the kind Lemming who donated their spare key for Garfield Kart - Furious Racing to me. I'll leave them unnamed in case they don't want the attention. I've been playing and enjoying it!
Surprisingly there weren't any rules around video games, it was everything else they had a problem with. TV shows, music, movies, Pokemon cards, too much time on the internet... Everything was "satanic", and yet I could game all day and no problems there. Maybe my taste in games was just never seen as an issue to them, or it was too much work to audit the content of them.
I mean the whole point is for them to extract value from me which I understand. Where I'm from we have designated break time in the work day. It's not that I don't get any breaks, but an additional 10 minutes per hour would certainly have a noticeable impact. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by a "pause" - I'm not firing on all cylinders the entire time, that's for sure.
I didn't say I was special. I meant that my calendar is not jam-packed, thankfully. It's maybe 1 or 2 reminders per day at most, for short tasks that I need remember to do at certain times. In fact these tasks tend to be even easier and less taxing than regular work, and using the calendar as a reminder means that I'm not committing any brain power to remember them which helps too. I have experienced burnout at a previous job and this is nowhere close. I do appreciate your concern though.