Quote Originally Posted by Pokemon Trainer Sarah View Post
Oh, that's good! It sounds like you must quite like your job! While I'm working, I really enjoy it, but if I stop for a bit, I kind of realise how stressful it is and how nice it would be to not have to worry so much about it xD That's why I think I would find it difficult to go back after a while.

That's a good idea with emails. I also hate having any unread emails!! But my Outlook app on my work computer has been doing this weird thing where there is ALWAYS 1 unread email notification on the app icon even when I don't actually have any, and it is driving me crazy not being able to get rid of it xD I have to careful though because if I click an email and don't respond right away I will totally forget to go back to it D:
I've had a lot of people comment on how I'm a really organized guy. I feel like I need to be or things will just get forgotten or things will get misplaced. I used to be a bit sloppy when it came to these kinds of things but I’ve learned it’s a whole lot less headache if you take notes (either written or typed digital notes) and give your brain a break by not trying to remember all the things you need to do. At least write some of the things down so it’s retained and you don’t need to keep consciously thinking about these things until you need to.

My job is one where I probably won’t ever have a plate that’s not completely empty and there’s absolutely nothing pending. The best possible situation my job has is one where for all the tasks and change orders I need to handle, all of them involve me waiting on someone else to complete a task and I can’t progress any further until they do (and part of my job includes reminding them they need to do such things!). And some people are very sloooooow when it comes to doing their stuff. So as an analogy, it’s like I’m playing three-dozen tennis matches, but they’re all in very slow motion and I keep returning the ball back to the sender (as in “hey, you’re up and need to do your thing!”).

But yeah, I’m definitely the kind of guy that likes to see 0 unread messages, 0 new notifications, 0 alerts and that kind of thing. Otherwise they just stare at you with their big, red “1s” or “2s” and I jump in immediately to make sure they’re taken care of!