Puh-leaaase, I've built a career on procrastinating until the very last minute then burning myself out a day before the deadline by finishing a week's worth of work in 12 hours!😎 It's not a pleasant career, nor am I ok, tho'...

[–] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This has similar energy to one of the critters from Flintstones.

*shrug* "It's a living"

[–] Arkaelus@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

You're not wrong!

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Mood. I just have to wait for the hyper focusing to kick in and hope it's not too late.

Luckily I work for a dev company, so they're used to people with adhd/autism.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

so they’re used to

That's true. And whether the people up on the hierarchy will use their knowledge to enable your work or fight you is a coin-toss.

[–] cypherix93@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Are you a software engineer? Or am I projecting?

[–] LufyCZ@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Yeah that's not adhd, that's a software engineer's job description ;-;

[–] Arkaelus@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

QA Engineer, same boat:))

[–] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

I knew it!! Hahaha

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This God guy would be way more relatable if the story was he doinked around for 6 days and then all the sudden scrambled to build earth on day 7.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 18 points 9 months ago

Well time is infinite and supposedly God has always existed. So technically he procrastinated for infinite time until creating the universe which only took a week. That's some serious procrastinating.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Can't ever be sure he didn't. I do it all the time.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Me, currently in the fucking around phase of the cycle: I can put off working on my thesis for a couple of hours, I wanna see the new Persona game!

Future me, looking back: feral, over-caffeinated, cursing the gods

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You better start working on your thesis right now or I'll find where you live and shit your pants.

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

Do me next. I'm also procrastinating on my thesis. Just can't get myself to stop worrying and do something

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't consent to this 😭

[–] InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

😈

[–] randoot@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is me and I wonder if this is due to some deep seeded insecurity. When I get a week's worth of work done in a day and it's just average, I can feel ok about it because damn I did it in a day. But if I spend a week and it's average then fuck I feel dumb.

Hmm. Yeah. Healthy.

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

This is me so much. At my new apprenticeship, we basically have a sort of probation period for the first semester where you need to achieve a certain average grade to be allowed to continue the apprenticeship. Accross all of the grades I got, except for one, I got the same average grades that I used to get back in school and in university where I used to do the same thing you describe. I just can't make myself work any earlier for the exams.

Today was our last exam and my average is good enough that I won't get kicked out which is a huge relief. But damn does it suck to hear that I have the same average grades I've had for years compared to my classmates who have stellar grades. I know comparing myself to my peers isn't really conducive for my self-esteem and my psyche, but I just can't help it.

[–] UprisingVoltage@feddit.it 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Currently entering the herculean effort phase, wish me luck

[–] Kiwi_Girl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 9 months ago

Good luck!

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Godspeed!

[–] frogfruit@slrpnk.net 6 points 9 months ago

I have gotten much better about not procrastinating, but it takes me much longer to get anything done if I'm not in the mood to do it. I don't know if it's worth it. There's less guilt I guess.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I can see myself in this post and I don't like it.

I mean, I do have some sort of consistent progress, but it's neither efficient or fast.

[–] TKRyer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.

[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

When I was in junior high there was a project that was worth half my grade that was announced on day 1 and due at the end of the semester. I waited until an hour before it was due to start working on it. I got an A. I can only imagine what I could have done if I had worked on it consistently throughout the semester like a normal person.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

From previous experience with both scenarios, probably a B-

[–] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

That's the point of deadlines right?

[–] shartworx@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

I feel seen.

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