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Right now I'm reading a book on internet marketing through Net Library. I figure if it'll help me do my job better, it's ok to do at work.
Do any of you find that one of the problems you have with staying off the net stems from using it every day for 4 years? I was on the net constantly in my dorm room no matter what I was doing. In the library, we could take out laptops with wireless web access. So I'd be sitting there or in my room or in a lab doing work while connected to the net. I'd have 15 windows open - my mp3s, my e-mail, the paper I was working on, the website for the paper I was working on, a search engine, IM, more random web pages, etc. I'm a great multi-tasker, and I could always do all this at once and get my work done with time to spare. So I think that's part of my problem now - I used to build time for distractions into my work process, and I'd take a short break every 15 minutes or so to read something/talk to someone and then go back to work (unless I was in a major time crunch).
Now it seems like at work, they want you to do all work all the time (which I understand since that's what they're paying you to do). Put my mom on the internet, and it takes her forever to do anything, so I can see why no one would want her to check her e-mail at work, for example. It'd take 3 hours. For me to do it, I can check everything and respond in 5 minutes and get back to work since I'm used to it, or I can talk on IM and write something up at the same time by alt-tabbing between windows. I actually work better that way, since I have a really short attention span, and it keeps me busy which is always great. Now I find myself doing work for however long it takes to get done, and hurrying through projects so I can take a break, but then I have nothing to do. If something's due in three days and I'm going to get it done early regardless, I'd rather stretch it out a little and have a better end product than cram it in because that's all I'm working on and have to redo it. Maybe it's just me, but I think better if my brain has 5 minutes here or there to rest. I don't know, did this make sense to anyone at all?
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