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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:11 AM Original message |
Do you find it increasingly harder to multitask? |
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JustABozoOnThisBus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:15 AM Response to Original message |
1. I find it hart to uni-task |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:17 AM Original message |
OMG! You too? |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:17 AM Response to Original message |
2. Yes. And I'm in my mid-fifties. |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:40 AM Response to Reply #2 |
16. Yes, I feel a lot like the absent minded professor these days... |
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Kajsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:18 AM Response to Original message |
3. I sure do, Joe. |
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KitchenWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:19 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. my lists keep me sane |
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Kajsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:21 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. LOL- Hi, KW! |
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KitchenWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:23 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Yes...I made a list.... |
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Kajsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:28 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. ROFL ! |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:33 AM Response to Reply #5 |
13. ROFLMAO!!! |
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skygazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:43 AM Response to Reply #3 |
17. I have made lists of my lists |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:44 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. This is getting much too complicated for me! |
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skygazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:54 AM Response to Reply #18 |
22. You should make a list |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 11:13 AM Response to Reply #22 |
30. What I should do is find a deserted island, and get away from |
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MissMillie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:18 AM Response to Original message |
4. What was that? |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:45 AM Response to Reply #4 |
20. I forgot... |
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tonkatoy57 (443 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
6. Multitasking is bullshit |
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Kajsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:25 AM Original message |
Text on a classroom poster. |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 11:06 AM Response to Original message |
26. Very true... |
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Kajsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:25 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Duplicated post |
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Blue Diadem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:44 AM Response to Reply #6 |
19. Exactly! I don't remember hearing the word before they did so many |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 11:08 AM Response to Reply #19 |
27. That phrase has completely changed the workforce. |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:51 AM Response to Reply #6 |
21. Thank you, thank you, thank you! A most excellent, and reasonable point. |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 07:59 PM Response to Reply #6 |
47. I think the word was started by an idiot who thought he or she |
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NewWaveChick1981 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:28 AM Response to Original message |
11. I find that I am a lot more productive focusing on one thing and then |
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JustABozoOnThisBus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:34 AM Response to Reply #11 |
15. Right. Multitasking is just serial unitasking |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:54 AM Response to Reply #11 |
23. I like things to stay simple and orderly. Multi-tasking just brings a |
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wildhorses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:30 AM Response to Original message |
12. increasinly undesirable not necessarily harder. |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 11:03 AM Response to Reply #12 |
25. You mean your head never feels like doing this? |
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wildhorses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 11:11 AM Response to Reply #25 |
29. yeah, it does. but -- it itakes a lot to get it that way |
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Blue Diadem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:34 AM Response to Original message |
14. I'm experiencing it too. |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 11:10 AM Response to Reply #14 |
28. Oh lord... |
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Inchworm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
24. I was never real good at true multi-tasking |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 11:17 AM Response to Reply #24 |
31. My philosophy? You can always go out to eat... |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 11:20 AM Response to Original message |
32. I think this is something of a generational thing too |
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Mutley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:26 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. ha! |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:33 PM Response to Reply #32 |
35. You brought up a very valid point. |
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BluePatriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:29 PM Response to Original message |
34. I'm young and I'm really bad at multitasking |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 06:36 PM Response to Reply #34 |
38. Admittedly, technology is way over my head. I rely on my son to |
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Callalily (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:44 PM Response to Original message |
36. I wish employers |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 06:39 PM Response to Reply #36 |
39. Employers probably do realize it, but customer's expectations have become |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
37. I've never really attempted it. |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 06:40 PM Response to Reply #37 |
40. Cool... |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 06:43 PM Response to Original message |
41. I never could and I believe no one can do it well |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 07:17 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. Thank you!!! |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 07:45 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. There was a thread here a few days ago about several dead |
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Nikia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
44. I don't like to multi task |
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InvisibleTouch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 07:53 PM Response to Original message |
45. I've never really been able to multi-task. |
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Nikia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 08:05 PM Response to Reply #45 |
48. I hate it when people have the tv on and expect me to have conversation |
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InvisibleTouch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 08:23 PM Response to Reply #48 |
49. I DO tell them to turn it off. |
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Throwing Stones (730 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 07:57 PM Response to Original message |
46. Wait, this isn't what I think it is, is it? |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 08:49 PM Response to Reply #46 |
50. No, but I believe I was the impetus for their idea... |
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