Introspectator.
Sep. 16th, 2004 03:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupWell, at least I started the day with plans and ambitions. I've had a bunch of things I wanted to accomplish this week, and so far haven't gotten nearly enough done. Today though, I figured out why.
This is one of those "No shit Sherlock!" observations, but I finally noticed that there are certain tasks that, while simple in nature, are so emotionally draining that when I have one of them to tackle, it pretty much takes all of my get up and go for the entire day, even if the task only takes 10 minutes to perform.
Just about anything involving resumes or job hunting or interviews is currently in that category. So, yesterday a friend told me that there was a job openning in Ottawa that I should apply for. I updated my Resume to put it in a good light, and mailed it off. That only took an hour or so, but I didn't get another thing done all day.
Today things were going well until I got another email from my friend who essentially said: 'It will look better if your resume goes through regular channels. Could you go to the website and jump through the job application hoops?'. That only took 30 minutes to do, but I now have lost all of my will to do the things that I was looking forward to doing today.
Maybe the urge to get something else done will come back today, maybe it won't. Now that I've realized that the main drain on my productivity at the moment is not that I'm a lazy bum (an unfortunate default assumption of mine) but that I'm in a fairly fragile emotional shape, I've decided not to beat up on myself about it. From now on I'm going to try to classify the jobs I have to do not only in terms of how long they should take, but how draining it will be to do them. This should give me a much more ballanced view of what I should be able to get done in a week.
Or so I hope.
This is one of those "No shit Sherlock!" observations, but I finally noticed that there are certain tasks that, while simple in nature, are so emotionally draining that when I have one of them to tackle, it pretty much takes all of my get up and go for the entire day, even if the task only takes 10 minutes to perform.
Just about anything involving resumes or job hunting or interviews is currently in that category. So, yesterday a friend told me that there was a job openning in Ottawa that I should apply for. I updated my Resume to put it in a good light, and mailed it off. That only took an hour or so, but I didn't get another thing done all day.
Today things were going well until I got another email from my friend who essentially said: 'It will look better if your resume goes through regular channels. Could you go to the website and jump through the job application hoops?'. That only took 30 minutes to do, but I now have lost all of my will to do the things that I was looking forward to doing today.
Maybe the urge to get something else done will come back today, maybe it won't. Now that I've realized that the main drain on my productivity at the moment is not that I'm a lazy bum (an unfortunate default assumption of mine) but that I'm in a fairly fragile emotional shape, I've decided not to beat up on myself about it. From now on I'm going to try to classify the jobs I have to do not only in terms of how long they should take, but how draining it will be to do them. This should give me a much more ballanced view of what I should be able to get done in a week.
Or so I hope.
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Date: 2004-09-16 02:21 pm (UTC)