PM>> Personally, at work I'm interrupt driven. Some body rings

 PM>> me with a problem and I put aside what I'm doing to look at

 PM>> their problem. The next person rings and I start looking at

 PM>> that. So by the end of the day I've started a dozen tasks

 PM>> and haven't finished any!



 AM> Stack overflow - 'aint it a bitch?  I often find myself stack-skipping

 AM> too, returning to an interrupt that occurred prior to another, and then

 AM> having to re interrupt that and return to the propper place.



I end up with a stack of paper about all the things I'm currently doing. If
someone calls with a problem, and I can't solve it right away, another
piece of paper gets added to the top and I start work on it. Every so often
someone will ring and ask about a problem I'm supposed to be looking at and
I shuffle their problem to the top.



It's got to the stage where if I go on a course or I am dedicated full time
to a project, I start getting fidgety and look around for all the other
things I'm supposed to be doing. It usually takes a few days before I can
really dedicate myself to just one task.



 AM> I've even been walking through the factory next door on my way to the

 AM> office and stopped dead for several seconds wondering what it was I'd

 AM> skipped in between, and then have to turn around and go back to

 AM> whatever it was I should have been doing before what I was about to

 AM> do.



All you need is to walk around mumbling to yourself and wearing a dazed
expression and you'd fit in perfectly at my work :-)



 AM> The monkeys in the factory think I'm a bit of a looney. They haven't

 AM> ever met anyone like Paul E before, so that's some sort of

 AM> consolation.



Not being as looney as Paul is still a hell of a long way from normal.
Normalcy is overrated anyway.





Paul



--- GoldED/2 2.42.G1114