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Do you find it difficult to be rushed to do something

Kenny_1622

I find it really challenging to be rushed to do a job, it elevates my anxiety causes me to panic and gets me very confused and emotionally distressed. I have to spend time thinking the job  through at different periods before continuing. Anyone have problems with this ? 

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  • Yes definitely, I need time to sit with some jobs - allow things to occur to me etc. This is especially true of any job that is new to me that has some elements of which I am unsure or not confident about. I am getting much better with age at not allowing others to rush me unnecessarily to meet some arbitrary deadline of their own choosing. I reason that if the deadline was so important they should have given more notice.

    I get this sort of thing with work all the time. A customer will spend an age deciding what they want and then, once they have decided what they want, they announce a deadline that is very close. I now just go back and tell them when we can do the job by, pretty safe in the knowledge that they won't be able to get anyone else to do it quicker at this late stage. Take it or leave it.

    Taking on the stress of others used to be a big issue for me but I have done a lot of work on not allowing that any more. Just recognising it as a thing made a big difference.

    Other peoples dramas are nothing to do with me.

  • in reply to McFrost

    I love this attitude! I struggle with this a lot and at my university, they often give such short notice for huge deadlines (unlike in all previous unis and workplaces) and it can put a huge strain on me and affects my productivity 

  • in reply to Ann :)

    It's unacceptable really. Their lack of planning and foresight basically gets dumped on you.

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