Activism is not a job. I see many people who think it is. "Pay me to change your values and judge you". Thanks, but I can get that for free.
The greatest value that I provide in my work is that I am me: I am a person, with human needs and concerns and thoughts and inspiration and creativity. I leave some of myself in my work.
It surprises me when people have the attitude that you have expressed, that you are just there to get the work done. Is your job in high tech really to robotically do the task?
It makes it seem, to me, like you are greatly underselling yourself.
I see people who think the actual work is incidental.
You say you don't even do activism at work, and even less activism first. So how do you imagine you disagree with me?
Unless you have a super low qualification job where you're hired to be a warm body, you're actually hired for the traits you mention, so that is the job. That is actually the "get the work done".
Ah, ok.
Then, I imagine that you really think it's fine for people to do politics, as long as it's politics that you agree with.
You simply see politics that you don't agree with as an "activism first" attitude.
So you say you're not an activist at work. So do I. Then you say that I'm an activist.
And you're kinda implying that you are, too.