The way it resonates with me specifically, is that I am curious how does one get a job like this. Is this company hiring? Do they allow work from home?
Don't get me wrong; I am a lazy person. If I had an opportunity to work like this, I probably would do it, too. But I don't know how.
For example, it happens to me that I am assigned as the only developer on a project, the management prepares the list of features that must be completed during this month... but of course, we are "agile", so I have almost complete autonomy over choosing which part of the list I implement during the first sprint, and what will be left to implement during the second sprint... so at the end of the month, if the features are not implemented, it is obvious that I didn't do as much as I was supposed to.
Or, how could I do "5 - 10 hours of actual work a week. I'm not even discounting job related but non-coding time as not work" when the meetings alone already take 5 hours a week.
I keep regularly hearing about jobs where this is possible. So my question is, where exactly am I making the mistake that prevents me from getting one? As far as I know, this is not about salary; sometimes it seems to me that the companies that pay less actually require more work.
Could it be that the mistake is the productivity itself? Like, if a manager notices you doing a lot (or just the average amount), then their "path of least resistance" is to assign more work to you, because then they know that the work will get done? But this sounds too self-congratulatory; I am actually not that productive. Or maybe I'm still above the average? That is a scary thought.