Accomplishment Paralysis, part II.
Jun. 4th, 2010 01:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsFor the ten months or so that I was unemployed, I had a metric buttload of projects that I wanted to get underway. In the past three months since I've been employed, I've gotten a number of projects off the ground, but several others (mostly the unpaid ones) have stalled.
It ought not to be this way. I have yet to figure out why what often seems like analysis paralysis often transforms without friction into accomplishment paralysis: an excuse not to finish a project.
And it doesn't seem to matter how much backing I have, from Omaha, from my peers. It doesn't seem to matter that it doesn't matter if a project is a failure, because nobody will remember it (unless it's as spectacularly as bad as BPs), but will instead recall the success-- or least pay for them.
Of course, maybe that's my other problem. I like making new things; I rarely enjoy maintenance. The idea of asking for money makes me clammy as hell, and I've done it only rarely.
It ought not to be this way. I have yet to figure out why what often seems like analysis paralysis often transforms without friction into accomplishment paralysis: an excuse not to finish a project.
And it doesn't seem to matter how much backing I have, from Omaha, from my peers. It doesn't seem to matter that it doesn't matter if a project is a failure, because nobody will remember it (unless it's as spectacularly as bad as BPs), but will instead recall the success-- or least pay for them.
Of course, maybe that's my other problem. I like making new things; I rarely enjoy maintenance. The idea of asking for money makes me clammy as hell, and I've done it only rarely.
