Posted by Dinah on December 28, 2006, at 9:48:38
In reply to Re: Just can't win » Dinah, posted by liliths on December 21, 2006, at 10:54:04
I think I don't mind the work so much as the job. I lost my father two years ago, but he had retired four or five years before that. I think I'm only just coming to grips with the changes that made in my job satisfaction and in the job requirements. It sort of seeped slowly into consciousness in bits and pieces as I struggled to figure out why I was having so much trouble with the work that I used to pile up overtime on.
It's not so much the work that I'm doing that I dislike, it's more the job. And I can trace that directly back to when my father retired. I think I got my job satisfaction from taking care of someone I loved (my father). But I can see that my current work situation won't last forever, so I should take advantage of it now. I'm going to dislike what comes afterwards even worse than this.
I'm managing to get some work done right now, but I am hopelessly behind and have been for years. And when I'm behind and have too much on my to do list and it's hard to figure out where to start, I get overwhelmed.
I've been noticing patterns of things that I do better at, and areas where I clearly have problems. Like a lot of small things to do tends to overwhelm my ability to organize and I jump back and forth in a less than ideally productive way. But if I am working on one large project, however daunting, I can get in the flow and be more productive.
I need to work on organizational skills to handle the little stuff. Or try to do all the little stuff at the office and the big stuff at home, which is what I used to do.
Unfortunately, my office arrangements do not appear to have gotten off to a good start. Perhaps I'm not meant to share close quarters with others.
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Thanks for asking. I'm trying very hard to break down my problems at work into their smallest parts, so that answers will be easier to find.
poster:Dinah
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