I work for people with “developmental disabilities” as it’s known in the biz, and a part of my duties includes finishing online training to get registered properly in my position. I’ve been working at my current place for a few months, and I have a lot of overdue courses I need to finish but I keep pushing it off and pushing it off.

I have 30 lessons that need to be completed, they’re over two weeks past due. Every time I look at my computer screen my eyes start to get blurry and I sort of start to disassociate. Instead of doing this shit I’d rather get high and play video games, even though I know I need to finish it if I want to keep my job and get registered with the state.

Idk. Just so burnt out from the work proper that the paperwork starts to seem insurmountable on my days off. I’ve been doing this kind of work for over 2 and a half years, closer to 3, but since I crossed state lines I’m deemed unqualified and have to redo a lot of the shit I’ve already done, and take lesson after lesson detailing shit I already know intimately. It’s so frustrating. I even get paid for it! As if affording rent isn’t enough of a motivation!

  • @redtea
    4•1 year ago

    I’m similar. Something like the third one works for me: I tell myself I’m just opening it to have a look, so I know what I’ll be doing when I get down to it the next day. Once it’s open, I can maybe do ten minutes. That won’t be too painful, right? Before I know it, I’m halfway through or finished.

    But I’m like this with the main part of my work, substantive writing. The blank page is a killer. And this seems to be the same whether it’s an article, a chapter, an essay, an assignment. The trick is to get something on paper. Then the next time you’re only playing with work that’s almost finished (even though that first draft of whatever it is could be complete shite, and the real work is yet to come).

    It just needs something to help get into the flow. Once you’re there, it’s no longer a question of motivation, but a question of stopping working.

    That reminds me. I’m a month past due on my annual mildly-racist anti-racist training.

    • SovereignStateOP
      1•1 year ago

      I tell myself I’m just opening it to have a look, so I know what I’ll be doing when I get down to it the next day. Once it’s open, I can maybe do ten minutes. That won’t be too painful, right? Before I know it, I’m halfway through or finished.

      I used this tactic and I got it finished comrade. Thank you, genuinely. I broke things down into easily doable chunks and before I knew it I was halfway done. Then I only had half left! I can get down to half of that. Now half of that. Done! It was a slog and a half but the ideas you and other comrades presented ITT helped a lot, so thanks.