Overwhelmed with work
Overwhelmed with work
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/44032044
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Conventional wisdom: Do the smallest, easiest piece first.
For me, counter intuitive: Do the biggest/hardest thing first.
When people come to you with a small thing, tell them "I'd like to, but X has priority."
Typical response is "OMG, yes, do that first."
Once it's done and out of the way, everything else looks small.
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Yep and when it's small it really doesn't seem like it needs doing.
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My problem is ignoring / declining the small things, especially if
- it's to help someone else, or
- it's more interesting than the big thing
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The big thing gives you permission to pass on the small things.
The smaller they are, the more likely someone else can help. If not? It's not world ending, they'll still be there.
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Maybe I'm desperate for social interaction or maybe it's just a hyper-focus trigger. I'll spend hours of my time trying to help someone else when it's something I am good and confident at doing.
I literally wish there was a position at a company for someone that just went around listening to people's problems or complaints and then was able to offer solutions or optimizations.
This is probably autism kicking in a bit. But I need a new problem to solve each day and no job offers this. If I can't hyper-focus a solution in a day or two. I just lose interest and stop caring.
Oh this thing is due in two weeks? Sounds like something that I don't give a shit about.
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I'm currently in "do a week's worth of work in 2 days" hyperfocus. Building up my nest egg for the next time my brain says I need to spend several days spending less than 15 minutes on actual work.
My brain decided I can't do that anymore. Worked in software for 10 years now and it's just fucking gone. Can't do the hyper-focus thing anymore.
It probably doesn't help that my company is supporting a genocide in Gaza.
Oh, well, I got laid off a month ago anyway. Basically, spent the last year not doing work at my company so I guess I deserved it. But, really, the company deserves to be convicted of supporting war crimes; so I guess I did the moral thing.
I really hope the hyper-focus ability comes back. I can still do it with other things. Just not with job searching yet. Wondering when that will kick in.
Edit: Microsoft for anyone wondering.