My boss moved my desk next to the printer and I almost quit before I figured out why
I sat in that loud corner for two months at our Chicago office, headphones on, saying yes to every quick favor people asked while they waited for copies, until a mentor told me I had become the office helper instead of the analyst they hired, so I started blocking 90 minutes every morning on my calendar as 'heads down' and within a month I was back on the big project, has anyone else had to claw their way out of a role that slowly shrank around them?