ants at work
Seems nothing helps. Not taking a day off, nor coming in late, nor leaving early, not even the frequent fresh air breaks. I can’t seem to focus on the ambiguous tasks delegated to me for more than a few minutes before either my mind wanders, or I must check my email, or step outside again, or look something or other up online, or write a blog post…And this is despite my awareness that I really could use a job offer here, or at least an extended stay, since my other prospects are not looking very promising. And as much as I dislike spending my days in a cubicle, being unemployed can be worse...But how does one learn to focus in a cubicle when it is so difficult to think in one?
posted by Goldie @ 4:31 PM
3 Comments:
Maybe one finds a job that isn't in a cubicle.
I really shouldn't be dispensing advice on that, though.
Welcome to the ADD generation.
I totally feel the same way, and I'm not in a cubicle.
Even when I'm sitting at my computer for the first time that day, ghost-writing a quick essay for which I have the subject matter, I write for three minutes then feel compelled to check the Times, or your blog, or some other thing. And this is work that I enjoy, know exactly what I'm doing, no writer's block or anything--the words are flowing right out of me.
Yet, still have the unconquerable urge to procrastinate, or get distracted...
Miriam - I sort of tried...The trouble is, seems cubicle jobs are the only ones I know how to get...
Bella - Yeah, ADD...Thing is, in general, I think I do have the ability to focus, or perhaps in theory, or at least I did back when I was in school...But in a cubicle, with a series of ambiguous tasks, and no deadlines to speak of, focusing seems like a practically impossible task...
(I wonder if it also has something a general deficiency of time which results in too many things on my mind during work, since there's not enough time after work to think about them and/or take care of them...)
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