Aug 6, 2007
Buried
I’ve been buried under a mound consisting of Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and even, yes, Flash. I’m doing four different jobs at the moment and it’s incredibly difficult to juggle them all… Ugh.
Anyone have any tips on how to actually do this many jobs at once and actually dedicate enough time to each of them? I’ve found that the less obviously productive things I need to do get placed at the bottom of the list whilst I focus on the more important things. It’s difficult for me to get enthused about banging my head against a brick wall (for example) for a couple hours every day just to say ‘I did it’.
I only feel like I’ve done ‘a day’s work’ if I have something to show for it at the end. I like to actually do stuff rather than tell other people to do stuff.
Does this mean that I’ll never be a ‘boss’ and never be rich?
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QR Code DVD 
Quit yakking paeon – you’ve got deadlines to meet.
I heart you. Hope that helps.
Well, I can relate somewhat, as I’m multi-tasking too. I’m doing my regular job (which is a full-time 40-hour/week job), doing a full review of the stuff I studied for my BS, studying for my Boards, and looking for another job.
I’m only getting paid for *one* of those activities, which sucks royally, but that’s life. The only way I deal with it is to do what you are doing: list the tasks in order of importance and try to do something on each task every day. The tasks with the shortest deadlines and/or the most financial impact get top priority, of course. :)
I try to give myself one day a week where I’m not doing *anything* but relaxing. I’ll burn out if I don’t.
It wasn’t clear from your post whether you are working on someone else’s project(s) or if you are doing your own project(s). Either alternative has its own pitfalls, as I’m figuring out as I go along.
For what it’s worth, I hate supervising people too and would much rather do the work myself. My supervisor is a lovely person but is also the most harried individual I’ve run across; they can’t pay me *enough* to deal with the bullshit she has to deal with. I’d rather be paid less.
The only tip I have is that, if you get stuck on something you are working on, set it aside if you can (deadlines permitting), and work on something else, preferably something easy and relaxing. This allows you to let go of all the aggravation and stress (which does nothing more than cloud your thought processes) and gives your subconscious mind a chance to work on it for awhile.
At any rate, hang in and may all of your efforts bear abundant fruit! :)
Hi!
I accidently found your blog and I like it.
As a response the your post, I currently read a book called “The 80-20 principle” by Richard Koch…. an idea orginally from the Italian economist Pareto. It tries to describe how we humans in many situations get 80% of the joy, profits, sales etc from only 20% of the input, time, customers. Following the ideas here, focus on what is giving you the most value at the end of the day can really leverage your work. You might wanna check it out!
As an engineer, finding someone that uses QR-codes is like finding a soul mate. =) Scanned it using my SonyEricsson and a Kaywaa-reader application.
I am working now on a new cool web 2.0 project. If you are as neerdy as I am, I can drop you a link when it’s ready to release if you want to beta-test it. Take care!
Yes it might do. But you still find time for blogging – so something is going right. Or maybe its a sign of it going wrong. ;-)
in software dev world we say: the first 90% of the job accounts for the first 90% the development time. the remaining 10% od the job accounts for the other 90% of development time. this is result of separating “important” and “non important” things (or worse – big and smol things). good approach is to “eat” your job like pie.
(or worse – big and small things)
ace, but what about the third 90% of development time?
add another 90% for fourth part of the development time and you’ll end up having full circle (pie) ;)
Hell, gal, just go and put the kettle on.
4Xjobs is the only bit of maths you need to look at, superbrain…