Think your misunderstanding a little. I play my jobs well most of the time. Have off days but who doesn't. But if I've cleared something 40 or more times and only 2 of those are represented on fflogs how is that in anyway an accurate indication of my performance.
The way I see it I have two options.
Option 1 just hide myself from fflogs cos while I do care about my performance I really don't care about epeening it or bragging rights or competing with heavily padded results. if that looks bad to some people then chances are they're not people i want to play with anyway..
Option 2 as you say is to let my results speak for themselves. which would mean start parsing absolutely everything I do and uploading every single thing to fflogs in order to flush out 1 or 2 bad runs. Fooq dat to much work. It's impossible anyway as i frequently jump between pc and ps4 depending on where I am..
This again highlights why i'm anti parser simply because of that kind of mentality. Because I don't give a dam about fflogs doesn't mean I don't give a dam about playing my jobs well.
Just because i don't do option 2. people think option 1 is an accurate representation of my abilities as a player... which is incredibly innacurate
you mentioned a resume... so in a similar sense if I an employer looked at my resume and employer references and just saw my attendance at work for the last 12 months was 65% there's no way i'd get the job.
if though that employer asked or looked into it and found my attendance for the last 12 months was 65% due to a serious car accident or something having me in hospital for 4 months then that 65% attendance looks a lot better. other than that serious accident I was never off sick.. which would also explain how I kept my job for 5 years. because if 65% was an accurate representation of my long term attendance there's no way i'd have kept my job for 5 years.
The problem with fflogs is that it's innacurate. Players don't read it correctly.. friend of mine is recently 70 samurai wanted to compare his dps to mine so we queued v1 normal. I came out of that with a little under 4k dps. which if you looked at fflogs would put me around the 55th percentile for that fight. it probably should have been a bit more cos that fight is honestly very high on uptime.
anyway I did that in a duty finder party of 3sams a red mage 2 whm a paladin and a dark.... so offensive utility was non existant..
Had I played at that exact same level in a much better party composition my dps could have possibly been 4.5k maybe even more if the party had trick attacks, balance, chain strategems, battle litany, any other buffs I haven't listed. (I think estimating a possible 500extra dps from all the party utility is fairly reasonable) and that would have put me at the 86th percentile. that's a massive difference of over 30% even though my level of play would be exactly the same my results would be massively different.
this is why I just don't care for fflogs because ultimately whether I'm in the 86th percentile or the 55th percentile isn't really down to me and how I play it's down to the 7 people i'm partied with..