Does anyone ever procrastinate even more when the deadline looms closer? (rant)

[crystal_dance]

I have shit loads of work piling up for next week (end of term and all the final projects/presentations/reports are due) plus I have to hand in a 10 page final report TOMORROW and I've just picked a topic :(.

I know I know. Procrastinators should plan things, stick to their personal deadlines and all that but my problem is that I work fine when everything is going smooth. The moment there's a glitch in the smoothness there's a never ending traffic jam. So everything just piles up.

Blah... sigh

[MsAnthrope]

I have shit loads of work piling up for next week (end of term and all the final projects/presentations/reports are due) plus I have to hand in a 10 page final report TOMORROW and I've just picked a topic :(.

I know I know. Procrastinators should plan things, stick to their personal deadlines and all that but my problem is that I work fine when everything is going smooth. The moment there's a glitch in the smoothness there's a never ending traffic jam. So everything just piles up.

Blah... sigh

This is my first post, as I finally feel I have something worth sharing...
Have you thought of going into daily journalism?
I was like you in school, I would try my hardest to do things ahead of time, and when I would actually sit down, weeks before a project was due, it would turn out horrible. (Perhaps it helped that as an undergrad I studied philosphy... But I wrote my final thesis for grad school the morning it was due.)
But once I started working, I realized that procrastinators were made for papers. We (or at least I) thrive on that anxiety.
Good luck!

[yankeeyosh]

Nope...if I have an immediate deadline, I'm as focused as can be. But I understand...it can be very overwhelming. I just have a type-A personality and if there's anything that's on my mind, I have to take care of it right away...

[Admiral eX laX]

This semester I've found I procrastinate more than I ever have. Primarily due to me working, along with being a full time student. I've never tried to juggle both before, and it's quite a challenge. All of that time I have once I get off work, I wish I had the motivation to use it productively for school, but I just wanna chill out after work sometimes, you know?

[Winter Storm]

Speaking of procrastination, I have a 6-page paper due (today really) and I only got like one paragraph done today.

I am soooo fucked!

[crystal_dance]

This is my first post, as I finally feel I have something worth sharing...
Have you thought of going into daily journalism?
I was like you in school, I would try my hardest to do things ahead of time, and when I would actually sit down, weeks before a project was due, it would turn out horrible. (Perhaps it helped that as an undergrad I studied philosphy... But I wrote my final thesis for grad school the morning it was due.)
But once I started working, I realized that procrastinators were made for papers. We (or at least I) thrive on that anxiety.
Good luck!

Funny that you mention that. I graduated from college 2 years ago and went through the whole career crisis QLC. I, just like many of the other posters on the board graduated with a degree in computer science but I absolutely HATED what I did. So I pondered over what to do... at the time I thought I'm a guy who likes to write (I was a naive, pseudo philosophical twit who saw the world in a very unrealistic way - totally different from how I perceive it today, which doesn't mean I've become fully cynical...yet) and was telling my girlfriend at the time that. She suggested that I consider journalism and suddenly :idea: I felt like the skies had cleared and the angels singing to me!

So... I applied around, networked, hob knobbed with journalists... hung out at starbucks all day (no seriously) till finally I got an internship position with a pretty decent vancouver based newspaper. I was super excited as hell - till week number 2. I hated it!!! It just wasn't my thing. I realised that structured writing wasn't for me. I prefer bohemian (weird ass) writing, done at my own leisure. Plus it soon hit me that I am the sort of person who wants to make the news more than write about it.

I mainly procrastinate with stuff that I don't like/want to do. If I like something I am very focussed and finish it off. Call it selective procrastination :razz:

Hey Winter! didja finish up? :razz: I'm in for a long long night...

[dengeist]

I love "crunch time", but at the same time I hate getting things sprung on me at the last minute. Every Wednesday we have two periods (80 minutes) set aside just for paperwork. Our Principal decided he was going to talk to us for 65 minutes, then give us a spreadsheet to do (he wants it today) when he was done, with 15 minutes left.

I was pissed because it took me about 13 minutes to do it and I had no time to do anything else.

[wordsmith]

I'm a journalist, so I have consistent deadlines and structure. I still procrastinate. Most journalists do.

[Winter Storm]

Hey Winter! didja finish up? :razz: I'm in for a long long night...

Ah, nope. It's gonna be a long afternoon and an early morning.

:(

[shimmer728]

Have you thought of going into daily journalism?

LOL! This was my thought. I write for a daily. I procrastinate all the fucking time. What do you think I'm doing right now?

[Kitty]

I procrastinate A LOT. However, I feel I can get away with this because I'm a super fast worker. I need to have some time where I do nothing..I can't just always be steadily working. I would die.

[pink bunny]

I am procrastinating right now...

[crystal_dance]

god, i'm so screwed it's not funny... i'm overdue :(

[coll214]

Have always been a procrastinator. projects in college that I started early usually ended up being scrapped in wee hours the night before for a whole other idea. Now i just need to find a job that doesn't expect things done 8 weeks before the actual deadline! what's the point of a deadlline if you in reality want the damn things earlier? Then put the due date then!

[blueyes]

what's the point of a deadline if you in reality want the damn things earlier? Then put the due date then!
OMG...this client has just decided that they're moving a new project ahead of this previous project, which is about 4 months behind schedule. The New Project is going to take at least 3 months to wrap, but we're also supposed to simultaenously do the Old Project and get it up to speed (read: make up 4 months of lost time) by January 31.

Oh, and the client still doesn't know where on their site they're putting the new construction. Hi - you guys have 100 acres - PICK SOMEWHERE! :mad: