The Troubleshooter

You are calm in exactly the situations that panic other people. Something stops working, everyone else starts talking, and you have already taken it apart and found the actual fault. You learn by handling the thing rather than reading about it, you have very little patience for meetings about work that could be work, and you are entirely comfortable saying nothing for long stretches. People often underestimate you right up until the moment they need you.

The difficulty is that you solve and then leave. You are excellent at the acute problem and much less interested in the slow one — the relationship that needs maintenance, the process that needs owning, the conversation that has been overdue for a month. You also treat your own need for space as self-evident rather than as something to explain, so people close to you experience your withdrawal as a verdict on them. One sentence about why you have gone quiet costs you almost nothing and prevents most of it.