If you don’t suffer from a narcissistic injury and can deal with people not seeing you as perfect all the time, you might find practicing some form of strategic incompetence quite helpful:
In office jobs, there’s one foolproof way to avoid being burdened with certain time-consuming tasks: develop a reputation for being rubbish at them. Act baffled and panicked around the coffee machine, or a jammed printer, and you’ll soon find nobody asks you to deal with it next time around.
In the same vein, I don’t know how to clean, iron, vacuum or wash floors. This is why I never do any of these things. As they say, the reason why monkeys don’t learn to speak is to avoid being forced to work.
People soon get used to the idea that one is simply not good at certain things and stop expecting it. Of course, one doesn’t want to deploy strategic incompetence trivially or excessively but it can be a useful tool when used sparingly.
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Children who make an ungodly mess of unwanted household chores given to them understand this principle very well.
Adults often seem to forget.
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Heh. This seems to work for office jobs not so much for housework. It’s the classic, “I don’t know how to type” to avoid being stuck in the secretarial pool.
I’m genuinely bad at driving and I’m known to get lost going to places I’ve been to many times (if you see me driving an Uber…). I get out of heavy driving duties but I’m not sure whether it’s because I’m very bad at it or whether people don’t code “driving” as a female gendered job.
Weirdly, I’m bad at cleaning, ironing (I never do it and steamers are a just a water spitting mess), vaccuming, and mopping (let’s spread dirt around with water!), but I don’t get out of it because other people win by attrition and they happen to be dudes.
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Oh no, My secret is out!
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