That is pretty much how I feel - like I’m putting out the fires every day, but not actually progressing on what I want or plan to do. It’s a tough balancing act that I’m still trying to figure out… time management is a tough skill to learn when it doesn’t come easily or naturally.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Yeah, that stuff it’s pretty hard to learn and it’s worse when you’ve never worked in an environment where people in general tend to practice good time management - a lot of thing you would normally not risk doing because they look like time wasting turn out to be the key to saving time and problems (which in turn, are also time when you’re the one that has to fix them) later, but only after you’ve seen it in action can you know for sure that such things will in overall save you time (and can actually justify doing them to others because you’ve seen them actually work).
I was luck that after 2 years working, having chosen to leave my country I ended up in The Netherlands, and the Dutch are very good at working in an efficient and organized way that properly respects work-life balance, so I learned a lot from them and watching and learning how they worked and the results of it, gave me a whole new perspective into the work practices from my first job which until then I though were “the way everybody works in this area”.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Envious, that sounds like a great experience. Trial by doing is probably the best way for most people to learn.