You cannot be managed closely
Put an Aquarius Venus in the house of Work and Health and autonomy stops being a preference. Told exactly how to do something you can already do, your output falls, your interest goes, and no amount of professionalism entirely covers it.
Given the objective and left alone you produce more than anybody expected and usually by a route nobody would have proposed. That is the whole arrangement here: state the outcome, leave the method, and everything works. Reverse it and nothing does.
You cannot leave a bad system alone
Confronted with a procedure that makes no sense you will redesign it, whether or not that was your job, and you are frequently right. It is also frequently unwelcome. Ask who owns the process before improving it, since the same suggestion routed correctly gets adopted and routed badly gets you a reputation.
Rank makes no difference to your manner
You treat the most senior and the most junior people identically, which is admirable and occasionally reads as insubordination to somebody expecting deference. You need not change it. Do notice which organisations experience it as refreshing and which as a problem, since that difference will determine how long you last in either.
A day with no particular shape
Left alone your working hours develop into something irregular: intense stretches, odd hours, long gaps. It suits how your attention actually operates and it is invisible to colleagues who assume you are simply unavailable. Publish the pattern rather than defending it, since most people mind the unpredictability rather than the hours.
The body is dealt with when it interrupts
Physical maintenance happens once something has become impossible to ignore, because your attention is elsewhere by default. That is not going to change through resolution. Put the appointments in the calendar a year ahead and treat them as fixed, since a scheduled obligation is the only form of instruction you reliably follow.
Space is not the same as distance
You need a great deal of room and you assume everybody understands what it means, which they do not. Time apart from you reads as withdrawal to somebody who has not been told otherwise. Say the two things separately and often: that you need the space, and that it has nothing to do with how you feel.
You override the signal until it shouts
Tiredness, hunger and strain are all noticed late here, because your attention is on the problem rather than on yourself. External structure is the only thing that works: fixed meals, a fixed finish, somebody who expects you somewhere. Build those in rather than trying to become more self-aware, since the awareness has never arrived.
Colleagues you like on entirely equal terms
Your working friendships form across the whole organisation without regard to hierarchy, which gives you a picture of the place that nobody else has. It is genuinely useful and it can put you in awkward positions. Decide in advance what you would do with something you learned from a friendship rather than improvising when it happens.
The strange skill turns out to be scarce
Something you learned purely because it interested you, with no thought of income attached, has a habit of becoming valuable a few years later when everybody needs it and cannot do it. That has already happened at least once. Keep an actual list of what you can do, since the unusual combinations are precisely what nobody thinks to ask you for unless it is written down somewhere.
The work you would do without being paid
There is something you do for nothing that is better than most of what you are employed for, and you have probably never considered turning it into the main activity. Consider it now, in practical terms. The obstacle is usually the shape of the arrangement rather than the money, and shapes are the thing you are best at redesigning.
