my company sends out periodic statistics to let you know how you're doing in terms of utilization, how much revenue your projects are bringing into the company, your profit margin, etc.  i  recently received my performance scorecard for the last 12 months and it wasn't pretty.  my LTM utilization rate was 16.06%...which basically means i worked on average about 3-4 days a month.  on the positive side, it's insane how much i'm getting paid for doing nearly nothing.  on the negative side, such numbers  don't bode well for job security and career advancement.  but being a sloth by nature, i'm not complaining.

fortunately for my career, i am currently staffed through the rest of the year.  furthermore, i somehow got a raise and my evaluation for the one long-term project i worked on was strong...so things are stable for now.  my current project does have some room for induced laziness; since my current assignment is local, i don't have to worry about travel time.  which means by thursday afternoon my entire team is gone and monday mornings are a breeze (which is when everyone flies in and why i'm sitting at work posting a blog entry).

so overall i'm enjoying work and i like the company i work for.  though if my utilization starts approaching normal levels that might change.