Multi-tasking...how good are you, really?
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Slacker007 wrote:
I juggle about 5 contracts right now
That isn't really multitasking. That's time-slicing. Multitasking would be writing a report for contract 1 with one hand whilst typing in code for contract 2 with the other hand and talking to the commissioner for contract 3 on the blower at the same time.
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Funny how people confuse overbooking their schedule with multitasking. That's just poor time management.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote:
I'm having a beer
Yes, but most people don't consider such involuntary* actions to be a "task" in the discussion of multitasking. * That would be definition #2 - like how the body takes care of breathing.
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Slacker007 wrote:
I juggle about 5 contracts right now
That isn't really multitasking. That's time-slicing. Multitasking would be writing a report for contract 1 with one hand whilst typing in code for contract 2 with the other hand and talking to the commissioner for contract 3 on the blower at the same time.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
I remember an entertainer juggling at the same time an apple, an egg, and a bowling ball, then tried to take a bite off the apple (and not the bowling ball). Would that qualify? (oh, and he succeeded ;) )
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I absolutely stink at multi-tasking. I prefer to devote myself to something 100% until it is complete. As we all know, in the real world, this is a fantasy. I juggle about 5 contracts right now and each one wants to think they are the most important. I do the best I can, but I know I could manage my time better. How good are you at multi-tasking? Does one client/contract/customer usually win out over the rest in the big juggle game?
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011) -
I absolutely stink at multi-tasking. I prefer to devote myself to something 100% until it is complete. As we all know, in the real world, this is a fantasy. I juggle about 5 contracts right now and each one wants to think they are the most important. I do the best I can, but I know I could manage my time better. How good are you at multi-tasking? Does one client/contract/customer usually win out over the rest in the big juggle game?
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)Slacker007 wrote:
How good are you at multi-tasking?
It depends on what I'm doing and what I'm interrupted with. In general, I consider multiple tasks to be interruptions because that's what they are -- mutual interruptions to each other. Interruptions that use the same neurons flush my mental context and are more costly than ones that use a different set of neurons. I try to use long (morning/afternoon) time slices if I can.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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I absolutely stink at multi-tasking. I prefer to devote myself to something 100% until it is complete. As we all know, in the real world, this is a fantasy. I juggle about 5 contracts right now and each one wants to think they are the most important. I do the best I can, but I know I could manage my time better. How good are you at multi-tasking? Does one client/contract/customer usually win out over the rest in the big juggle game?
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)I prefer to be able to switch tasks when I want to, not when the boss tells me to. I'll work on a project until I feel I am reaching my limits and then I'll want to switch to a previous task I suspended for the same reason. I call it working between the mountain tops. Switching tasks that way, I've let my subconscious crank on the other task a bit and when I switch back the problems that were getting in my way, seem smaller and I can move the project forward. But then there was the time I worked for a manager who was always in crisis mode. He'd come to my cube and tell me to drop everything and deal with this crisis. We'd discuss how to deal with it and would general agree it would take a few days to solve. A few days later, before I would finish the solution to the initial crisis, he'd come to my cube and tell me to drop everything and deal with a new crisis. Again we would discuss a resolution and that it would take a few days to execute. Repeat the part where he comes to my cube with a new crisis before I finish the previous one...ad nauseum. I learned not to do anything and puttered on my personal projects because it became obvious I would never be allowed to finish any of the assigned tasks. This went on for about nine months before he decided to take a job at another company.
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I absolutely stink at multi-tasking. I prefer to devote myself to something 100% until it is complete. As we all know, in the real world, this is a fantasy. I juggle about 5 contracts right now and each one wants to think they are the most important. I do the best I can, but I know I could manage my time better. How good are you at multi-tasking? Does one client/contract/customer usually win out over the rest in the big juggle game?
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)I think I am using Time Division Multiple Access not real multitasking, but for sure I am multislacking...
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I absolutely stink at multi-tasking. I prefer to devote myself to something 100% until it is complete. As we all know, in the real world, this is a fantasy. I juggle about 5 contracts right now and each one wants to think they are the most important. I do the best I can, but I know I could manage my time better. How good are you at multi-tasking? Does one client/contract/customer usually win out over the rest in the big juggle game?
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)Slacker007 wrote:
How good are you at multi-tasking?
This got me into real trouble while my ex-girlfriend was talking to me and I was parking the car. She thought that I didn't like to listen to her :doh:
"To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems" - Homer Simpson
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I absolutely stink at multi-tasking. I prefer to devote myself to something 100% until it is complete. As we all know, in the real world, this is a fantasy. I juggle about 5 contracts right now and each one wants to think they are the most important. I do the best I can, but I know I could manage my time better. How good are you at multi-tasking? Does one client/contract/customer usually win out over the rest in the big juggle game?
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)