Perhaps you should find another 9 - 5 job, that is more fulfilling.
And your boss wouldn't feel "Cheated" by paying your salary, when obviously you are not pulling your weight
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On the occasions when I was into the works, for some project or another, I would "Rib" some of the guys in Development or Testing, when they went for coffee, carrying "Practical Electronics" under their arm. "Looking for clues, are we?", I would say. The number of years I got away with that, beggars belief even when some made it to senior posts - "Still reading P.E. - no wonder the company is struggling".
A friend, a serious radio ham, would spend hours every night on prototype designs which were worth nothing outside his hobby. "It compensates for my abject boredom during the day", he said. Pity he didn't use his talent on something more beneficial to him and his company. He was very good, but there seemed little point in him devoting years on a degree as he never fulfilled his potential, which is a shame. And yes, we were and remain good friends, despite all those years of chivvying.
As for me - waking at 0230hrs, sitting bolt upright in a hotel room in Doha, switching on the light and jotting down some notes for further tests, to figure out why a Prototype Drive was continually tripping the P.A. - before flying off into the Gulf to a Gas Exploration Rig, on which the transmitter and peripherals were installed, seemed like a normal day for me. Years of long days, 12 - 16 hours were the price one paid for being half decent at my job. And, when that was resolved, off to some other S--t---e in the World to repeat the exercise, albeit on different systems. I haven't seen a lot of the World, but I certainly have worked it.
). After much jiggery pokery I managed to get about 8W @10% THD from it but, more relevantly, down to around 0.1% below 5W. Output impedance was around 6R!!
) but with far too small an output cap (yes a bigger one was difficult to get and huge at the time) which is not in the feedback loop. Zout is 2.5R by 30Hz!
