Thursday, 17 April 2008

On looking disorganised and scatty

of the things that annoys me most about having dyslexia is how easy it is to make you look disorganised and scatter brained. Take yesterday for example. I was doing a job at work which involved looking threw some old data (in excel spreadsheets) and adding this data to the new spreadsheet. Sound simple? It was. This is how the job should of gone.

1. Get project number from spreadsheet 1
2. Look in directory on computer for that project file
3. Open file and copy information
4. Paste information in new spreadsheet

This is how it actually went.
1. Get project number from spreadsheet 1
2. Open required directory on computer
3. Thinks to self - Now what was that project number again?
4. Look in directory on computer for that project file
5. Double check from original spreadsheet that I got the right project number
6. Back to the directory - now were was that project file again? - oh there it is
7. Open file and look for information - what information was I looking for again? - oh yes.....
8. Find and copy information
9. Go to new spreadsheet - it was the new spreadsheet and not the main one wasn't it? oh right. yes it was
10. Now what was I doing with with information again? Oh yes I was pasting it in here

I would laugh if it wasn't so annoying.

Is it any wonder it takes me twice as long to do anything.

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