Poor time management

No wonder friends always complain about me having no life.

When people ask me out on weekends, I dutifully attend, and then return home to do work overnight.

When people dont ask me out on weekends, I stay at home whole day, and TRY to do work.

Sometimes I also dont understand why I must bring work home to do over the weekend. My concentration level is less than 10% compared to a normal day, and I am just staring at the page painfully for a few minutes, then alt-tab to mozilla to continue my online streaming.

After each episode, I alt-tab back long enough for my show to load totally, then return to watch my show.

Then at the end of the day, like right now, when I look at the empty excel sheet, I wonder why do I even bother.

But I also know for sure that if I dont do this, and another compilation over this weekend, my coming week will be a torture.

I am going to be working non-stop from 8.30am till 11pm on both days, juggling my 8 live projects, and 2 completed-but-still-have-some-loose-ends jobs.

In this current job, I am so engaged that I dont even have time to msn or surf cowboybar. Each time someone msn me, I cringe when I have to apologise that I am busy and cant stop to talk. Being busy sounds like such a lousy excuse if it wasnt the whole truth, as it is in my case.

Lunch is a 10min affair, where I catch up on daily news via myepaper.sg.


Which brings me to my point.

I once read, that there are some people who possess poor time management skills.
They procrastinate, and dont give a damn about deadlines.

I read the article, feeling very pleased, for I am never a procrastinator. I do my work as they come, and I give myself deadlines earlier than what is stated, thus making sure I ALWAYS meet deadlines.

But I am not smiling when I saw the second portion.

Another group of people with poor time management skills, are people whom overestimated their abilities, or underestimated the complexity of an assignment.

These people packed their tasks back to back, with no buffer allowance between them. They presume they will need 1 hour to finish something that looks to take 1 hour to finish, but in reality, phone do rings, emails do arrive, colleagues do try to talk.


*Headdesk* I am exactly such kind of person. It always take me longer than I originally expect to finish my work because emails arrive at frightening rates.

But I never remember these when I need to commit a deadline to my clients. While others request for a week to turn around client's requests, I force myself to complete within 2 days, or 3 max.

不知量力.