Did they respond yet? Nope, Did the... nope...
Have you ever gotten so excited about posting something that all you feel like doing is refreshing the message board seeing if someone responded? That's been me for the past 6 hours...
In retrospect, I'm looking at this issue I have as really pointless and quite lame. It's like... nothing is going to be changing split second on a forum that I need to come back every 5 minutes and check. In fact, it's extremely counter productive.
A little background: I posted on a forum indicating to someone that I applied for a job at their company and wanted them to know I was still interested. So I've been spending all day looking to see if they read it and responded. In the past 6 hours I could have spent 10 minutes checking for responses and gotten 5 hours and 50 minutes worth of work done, but instead, I've spend 3 hours clicking refresh saying "ooo, did they say something yet?!" Most times, I'm disappointed and I sluggishly go back to work only to return in 5 minutes to check again. In the slight occurance that something changes (1 more person viewed the thread), I go on a tangent of checking my StatCounter page to see if they read my portfolio, and if they did, I investigate who they were, where they were coming from and which pages they visited, so I end up spending another 15 minutes doing this every time something small changes! I don't know whether it's my brain or personality or whether I'm truly just a lazy person and don't want to do this work so I use that as an excuse. My mind is easily distracted and if I have something on it, I can't seem to get much else done. The good thing about that is when I'm focused, I get things done. The bad side is when I'm not that focused, I get nothing done at all. I think this is why I tend to like team work. Being in a team and working with someone keeps me focused. When my mind is free to roam, it will, and it won't come back until someone conks me on the head. That's probably why I've been unproductive today...I came down from a productive weekend of being submersed in my new house projects by going to work where I sit alone, with no one around. Having no one around does not inspire me to get work I'm not interested in done.
Have you ever gotten so excited about posting something that all you feel like doing is refreshing the message board seeing if someone responded? That's been me for the past 6 hours...
In retrospect, I'm looking at this issue I have as really pointless and quite lame. It's like... nothing is going to be changing split second on a forum that I need to come back every 5 minutes and check. In fact, it's extremely counter productive.
A little background: I posted on a forum indicating to someone that I applied for a job at their company and wanted them to know I was still interested. So I've been spending all day looking to see if they read it and responded. In the past 6 hours I could have spent 10 minutes checking for responses and gotten 5 hours and 50 minutes worth of work done, but instead, I've spend 3 hours clicking refresh saying "ooo, did they say something yet?!" Most times, I'm disappointed and I sluggishly go back to work only to return in 5 minutes to check again. In the slight occurance that something changes (1 more person viewed the thread), I go on a tangent of checking my StatCounter page to see if they read my portfolio, and if they did, I investigate who they were, where they were coming from and which pages they visited, so I end up spending another 15 minutes doing this every time something small changes! I don't know whether it's my brain or personality or whether I'm truly just a lazy person and don't want to do this work so I use that as an excuse. My mind is easily distracted and if I have something on it, I can't seem to get much else done. The good thing about that is when I'm focused, I get things done. The bad side is when I'm not that focused, I get nothing done at all. I think this is why I tend to like team work. Being in a team and working with someone keeps me focused. When my mind is free to roam, it will, and it won't come back until someone conks me on the head. That's probably why I've been unproductive today...I came down from a productive weekend of being submersed in my new house projects by going to work where I sit alone, with no one around. Having no one around does not inspire me to get work I'm not interested in done.
