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steve  ·  519 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 26, 2022

do you ever get overwhelmed by a project at work or school and you just keep putting it off even though it's something you want to do, and it's something you can do, but for some reason you just allow it to intimidate you?

that's about me, not you.





user-inactivated  ·  519 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I sometimes watch deadlines approach with an almost morbid curiosity. That's happened more the longer I'm in my current job and likely linked to my decreasing ability to care about it.

user-inactivated  ·  519 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I love this description

user-inactivated  ·  519 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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b_b  ·  518 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm having the opposite experience. I have started a side business, and I'm getting to the point where I'm close to wanting to try to raise money. This has made me not care a wit about my paying job. And I like my paying job, but my boss is a pussy and my CEO is a moron, so it's sometimes a challenging environment. So I've taken to just speaking my mind basically all the time, since I don't give a fuck what happens. And it's weird, because I'm having an Office Space type of experience. I keep doing less and less, and keep acting like a bigger thorn in the side, and they're talking about promoting me. It's ridiculous. Corporate America is dumb. Really dumb. Everyone is a follower, so the leaders are all sociopaths. So while, yes, I put things off until the last minute, it's more because I'm off doing other things rather than paying attention to what I'm getting paid to pay attention to. Let's just say my wife is a bit ambivalent about it!

steve  ·  517 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I have started a side business

I can't wait to hear more about this

Devac  ·  519 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's new, but often find it hard to begin. It's usually worse when I know it's handleable, but I invent reasons to the contrary. Sometimes the best cure is to jump in, but then there's a layer of hesitation about whether you're correctly distinguishing hesitation or healthy caution.

How does it look in your case?

goobster  ·  519 days ago  ·  link  ·  

... add to that the fact that I am extremely good at what I do, and what should take me a week only takes a focused patch of about 3-4 hours ... so I know I can leave something until the absolute last minute, and still get it done.

Which is a TERRIBLE stress-maker for me. I know I have this project. I know it will take me 2-4 hours to do it. I know I have three weeks to do it. So I will put it off - constantly beating myself up for not doing it - for two and a half weeks, then finally do it.

Bleh. Terrible way to work.

steve  ·  518 days ago  ·  link  ·  

similar feels here... not that I'm particularly good at my job... but that I can tell something will only take X amount of time, so I end up putting some it off in favor of something I want to do.

I'm trying to change that though.