The solution to idiosyncrasy

What works best for me at work rests mainly on three attributes: autonomy, asynchrony, and atopia. The "three A's." That is: independence from the system, from simultaneity, and from location.
That doesn't mean working with other people, sharing the same place, or talking in real time is ruled out. It means doing so only when it's constructive, natural, logical. Not out of habit, convention, or regulation.

There will surely be exceptions, especially in smaller companies, but as a rule, business organizations of a certain size and complexity come with social dynamics that I find extremely toxic.
What weighs on me most about those environments is the feeling of being forced to repress certain impulses — natural and normal anywhere else — in order to conform to a setting that, for the sake of coexistence, convenience, and connivance, turns artificial, synthetic, and fake. A stage on which people have to hide the traits that make them unique, slipping into a character uniform that constrains and flattens the spirit more than the tailored suit they wear does the body.

I can't take this double personality, demanded almost by contract, lightly. There's a primal, irrepressible force inside me that screams to warn me that all of this is wrong, that I am normal in my uniqueness, that there's nothing wrong with expressing it, that, on the contrary, smothering it is wrong and can even tip into something pathological.

Though I'm neither antisocial nor a misanthrope, I'm certainly well equipped to exist (and resist) for a long time in a solitary, self-sufficient way. And even to benefit from it. That's why the "three A's" way of working is the best fix for my idiosyncrasy toward structured professional organizations.

Drafted from Italian with Blog Translator, then revised by me.