i'm a perfectionist with no patience. what kind of job suits that?
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Own your own business and have no employees.
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Let me start with the good news. YOU HAVE THE INTENTION TO BE SELF-DISCIPLINED. THAT IS GREAT !!! ONE DAY YOU WILL BECOME SELF-DISCIPLINED. I wish i had asked this question a looong time ago. So there you go, you are in much better shape.\n\nI was like how you are describing yourself. Trust me, even if you go ahead in your career and life, you will resent a lot things that you are doing now and wish that you did a few things in certain way. We all need Self Discipline if we need to achieve success and more importantly to have peace of mind.\n\nI don't want to say a lot of things like hard work, determination, dedication and things like that. I have spent a lot of years trying to read books and i get only emotionally excited and nothing more. Yeah, you do get some knowledge and few buzz words and thats it. \n\nLet us be practical. You are seeking answers to your problem, and i can see that you are a smart and a honest person. You are admitting that you are being lazy and you want a goood life. THERE MUST BE SOMETHING THAT YOU LIKE DOING ON A DAILY BASIS. If there is nothing else, start praying. I don't believe in GOD, but i started praying anyways. I don't think that i ever will believe in GOD, but that is not the point. Here, by doing prayer, we are indulging in a spiritual act. If you don't like to pray, fine, pick any act that is important to you right now in your life. Schedule a time to do that, when you will not be disturbed. Do that act exactly at that time, everyday, no matter what happens. I would recommed that you even watch for the second. This may sound silly, but do it for the heck and fun of it for a week and see what happens. Get ready a few minutes before and wait for the exact time and do it. I belive this does two things for us. One is we are perfectionists. We are channelizing our perfection from doing something to starting that thing on time. Our attention is now on beginning a task rather than the task itself. REMEMBER, IT IS BETTER TO DO THAT TO DO WELL. Secondly, it trains us to delay ourself. When you are condition to wait for the right time to start something, you also are developing patience. You get to watch your inpulse to act while you are waiting. Those few moments give a glimse into the nature of you emotions. Watch them while you wait. Meanwhile you can do some smaller tasks if possible.\n\nTry it for one task, and slowly schedule other things as well. Internally you will develop a sense of pleasure. When this happens, you are hooked up for life on self discipline and you will wonder how you have lived a life without self discipline. It is happening to me right now. I was always late to office, sloppy on many things. This week, i woke up by 6:00 AM, got ready for prayer, 6:45 AM started the prayer. 10:00 AM took coffee break, 11:30 walk the stairs twice, 12:45 lunch, 3:00 break again, at 5:30 PM left work. 7:00 PM prayer again. I was perfect at starting the tasks on time, i was laxing on other things, but once i get a few items on time, then i can work in other aspects. Life is worth living. Now i know how much time each task takes, and i have a growing urge to plan things well. Well i think i have taked a step in the right direction - at least i am early to office, and i know that i won't be missing my prayers. But life is much more than a strict routine, the idea is that you are trying to have in place a system where is predictability and that you know that certain things will happen as you planned. ISN'T THAT CONTROL ? I was seeking it externally, which you will never get. Control your self, and everything else will follow. \n\nZig Zigler once said : \n"It is true - when you do the things you ought to do, when you ought to do them, the day will come when you will do the things you want to do, when you want to do them."
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hard work, no room for mistakes
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Get organised.\n\nMake a timetable and stick to it.\n\nMake people you care for depend on the results of your work (like for example, promise a friend you'll do something they need), so you'll have an extra reason for finishing your work.\n\nGet started without thinking too much about it. The difficult thing is starting, but once you're in motion, everything seems easier. I call this "cheating myself into working".\n\nSee a psychologist to make sure there is nothing that is bothering you.\n\nTry to leave things you like for the end, as a reward for doing everything else.\n\nFind the joy of what you have to do. I mean there must be something funny even in the dullest chore. Find it, and see if it gets easier to do.\n\nDo whatever you can with music, or good company. Of course, some things can't be done with music, because it disturbs, but others can.\n\nEat healthy, sleep well at roughly the same hours every day, and do everything else so that your physical health is not in the way.
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I am married 3 children. I work between 36-48 hours a week depending on the week. I take care of my house and children. I am well organized, I run the house, pay the bills, help kids with homework, I do it all. I can label myself as a perfectionist because everything has to be done correctly at work or at home or else it bug me to know that maybe there is a loose end somewhere. I have goals and timelines and those things need to be completed on time.\n\n\nYawn... I am tired now you know why :)
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Ask for added responsibilities.  That's what I had to do, now I have too much on my plate, but don't dare complain.  And if all else fails, start looking for another job in a different vocation, and you don't have to quit to do this.  You can look online for jobs, in newspapers when home in the evenings, or when at stores look at bulletin boards.  I'm trying that myself, only because my added responsibilities are becoming monotonous too now that I'm used to doing them.
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"I find that my greatest strength can also be by greatest weakness - and that's my desire for perfection. I want things done, I want them done right, and I want them done right RIGHT NOW. While I realize that there's no inherent danger in striving towards perfection, my drive can often lead to me getting impatient with myself. When I'm ready to go, I'm ready and I tend to push myself maybe harder than I should in order to get it right."\n\nGood luck in your interview!
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My biggest hurdle in life has been learning patience and self-control.\n\nI struggle with it, but I am doing far better than just a couple of years ago.\n\n.
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I think that would have to be my procrastination. It really gets in the way of getting things done...\n\nI would also like to enhance my patience, while we're at it.
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An example of the best way to handle this question: "I tend to be a bit disorganized, so I compensate by keeping a priority list of everything I need to do and don't allow myself to ignore it." Any time you admit to a weakness, make sure you explain how you've overcome or compensated for it. ( I was a Personnel Manager for two very large corporations and conducted literally thousands of interviews. )
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Oh wow.  there are like a million dif jobs out there for you . . . start out by finding the underground guy.  the behind the scenes gal.  How about a night time stock clerk?  cleaning lady for a hotel?  bus boy for a restarant, ticket taker on the highway only has to deal with them for a second at a time.  auto mechanic - let the mgr, deal with the customers.  do online work for companies that do not want any overhead.  get a job on a factory assembling line.  cleaning companies for offices always need help.  any company you can think of needs cleaning people, and all stores need stock and inventory work.  maybe you could even get a job with the banks counting money in the vault.\nHope this helps.\nGood luck.
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taking a deep breath and trying to imagine yourself in a peadeful place.......I struggle very much with impatience, and even though I still get very impatient, I have become quite good at hiding it, it just takes practice and work.\nGood luck!
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Um, just go with it, trust me, if you don't, the perfectionist will slowly start to become the beast within. So hey, it's the fucking hardest way to live for the first quarter century or so, but if you can replace feelings of lazziness with those of accomplishments, then maybe we are on to something. Cheers.\nBB
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Use a computer that has MWord or some other word processing program.  If it has internet access, that will help for accessing information.\n\nTurn off the radio and TV and concentrate on what you are doing.\n\nIf you are in school there will be a deadline.  That means you must click off something daily even when you are not feeling well.\n\nNothing happens until you start taking steps.\n\nDo not expect perfection, get to work and do what you can.  Polishing is something you cannot do until you have built whatever you want to polish.\n\nAt that point, you strive for perfection.\n\nMost students are satisfied with 85--95% of perfect.\n\nA's go to 90% or above.  Some teachers are tighter, it must be 95%.\n\nI give A+ when it is 96--100% perfect.\n\nLetting someone else do your work is a big mistake in your life, not just school.\n\nIt can be done.  You can do it.  \n\nI follow my own rules and as you see I am not afraid and I can do anything which I decide to do.
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conqueror, and a perfectionist
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You can consider Human Resource Consulting.\n\nhttp://was4.hewitt.com/hewitt/\nhttp://www.mercerhr.com/\n\nGood luck!
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Nobody can become a perfect person. We all make mistakes and bad decisions at least sometimes. The best you can do is try to develope good habits of the heart, make the best choices you can, and if you believe in God, pray for help. Even the best among us get angry and frustrated sometimes and say or do things they regret. All of us have some sort of habit that bothers someone else. We are too fat, too thin, too short, too tall....there isn't physical perfection, either. We can spend way too much time worrying about it, or we can take baby steps and change one thing we don't like about ourselves at a time. If you change a behavior consistantly for two weeks, it usually is long enough to establish a new habit, and you aren't likely to do it again. You have to do some self examination, but don't fall into the trap of being so hard on yourself that your self-expectaions are too high. That kind of perfectionism is an emotional killer. Seek balance, a middle path.