So I have two project managers who want me to work on the other project for now, until some decision is made, at which point I should drop everything on the other project and get their stuff done. The dumb thing is it's not even different projects, just different branches of the same product. Also I have to change the brake rotors and pads on the car before we drive to Colorado in a couple weeks, but it's supposed to be 100+ degrees for the next week so I'm stalling.
d00d as someone that has forgotten more about cars than most people will ever know, farm out the brake work. There are few tasks in automotive maintenance with a savings/suffering ratio as low as brake work, and few tasks in automotive maintenance that improve more through the acquisition of specialized tools. Brakes aren't bad if you have all the spanners, the weird little pliers, the circlip tools, the joint forks, the grease pit, the hydraulic post lift, the crawler and the pneumatic brake bleeders developed over a hundred years of history to make an odious job merely tedious. But if you don't have that shit? Every step of the way is an exercise in understanding why unitaskers exist, regardless of Alton Brown's quixotic philosophies.
At some point I'll probably agree with you, but I've done the same job on the same type of car a handful of times so I know what I signed up for an least. I'm just wishing I did it last will when it was cooler.