I think that the main reason that I did well my first decade here, while working for Larry, then Tommy, is that I tended to work on only one thing at a time. Whenever I had more than one item that was due about the same time, I would have them pick the one that was wanted first. Even then, I knew that I had a better chance of getting one done if I worked on one at a time. Even though, I could work on both, it would either take me a long time. Or I would focus on one, kind of forget about the other. Either way, I still found myself in the same position, having to work longer and harder to keep up. Right now, with this Easytrieve project, I’m back to the same thing, working on only one thing at a time. Realistically, I can’t continue doing that. When I first started in this section in ’07, I had a lot of assignments that were executed on certain days, and pretty much had certain steps done each time, so it was somewhat easier to accomplish more than one; as long as I followed the list of things to be done and did them on scheduled days. All other times, it’s been hard to both break up projects into manageable portions, and to work on multiple items within a day. To me, it is especially hard as an IT worker, when the items you monitor can have something happen to them at any time, and you must drop everything and instead work on that. Well, if I had that time scheduled to be working on a project, how do I go about recouping that time? Staying late to make it up? That’s what I’ve always done. It would probably work if I didn’t get distracted on other things while I was/am in the process of making up that lost time.
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