I've seen someone answer like this:
This situation should be separated! Find your most important and urgent job and seize it! You can give up everything else!
I feel that this is a saying that it is easy to stand and talk. Importance and urgency are often relative things. Moreover, most of the people who ask these questions are newcomers in the workplace. For them, the current workload is very large, but not all of them are core competitive jobs. However, if it is not completed, it will often lead to a yellow light or a red light in the workplace because of negative comments. Some trivial administrative work, whether it is answering the phone or serving tea, whether it is an institution or an enterprise, is generally given to newcomers; There are always people who have to do repetitive work or difficult and low-value work.
I remember reading the author's opinion in the book "Hiding in the Office" before: Some people say that someone should do these worthless jobs, but why do you have to go? Then put forward how to use the important and urgent work at hand to get rid of chores and so on. The question is, for a newcomer with relatively junior qualifications and low core value, where did you get so many "high value-added" jobs? If you are too busy with temporary work, such as doing an important statistical task assigned by an assistant manager, the manager or other senior colleagues just need to help clean up, and you may be able to shirk it, but most of the time things are just delayed, or your own.
In fact, the most fundamental thing is to grow up quickly, treat all kinds of work as a whetstone, let yourself grow faster and faster, and then constantly improve your value, so as to realize the active choice of jobs with core value ability. Facing more new and challenging jobs. . .
In the face of a lot of work, I learned from Li Gongzi's Weibo that from a personal point of view, there are at least four coping skills:
1. Optimize tools to improve efficiency.
We should dare and be good at using the tools of the information age to decompose and complete tasks. For example, learning excel functions or VBA batch sorting analysis data; Use word mail merge function to complete office automation; Use voice input or learn double spelling input method to improve input efficiency; Learn to use mind mapping to increase the ability and comprehensiveness of decomposing projects. This skill is most suitable for all kinds of content involving computers and information. But it is not limited to information tools, such as staples that allow you to open files, so even if you pay for a stapler yourself, the effect and efficiency are much stronger than manual work.
2. Accumulate skills and refine experience
In the face of trivial and repetitive work, it is very important to accumulate skills. Some experiences in completing similar work are highly summarized, forming routines, that is, forming standardized processes, which can reduce repetitive work caused by unfamiliar mistakes. Explicit and standardized experience can effectively shorten judgment time, speed up decision-making and improve mobility.
3. Optimize the process and improve the method.
For the tasks of the existing process system, while pursuing high standards, the experience is analyzed and constantly optimized in practice, which greatly improves the work efficiency and quality, makes it mature as soon as possible, and can be put into the work with higher added value to create higher value without consuming too much energy in the highly repetitive routine work. What needs to be noted in this skill is that if the work is completely handed over to oneself, the leader only asks the result, not the process, so that the steps can be bigger and the scope and intensity of optimization can be tried more on the premise of ensuring the quality of the result; If the boss cares more about standardization and process, or this task belongs to "assembly line operation", he needs to be more cautious, and can't save trouble by himself, so that others can't pick it up.
4. Improve mentality and increase time.
Last resort, improve your mentality. The key is never to complain. Complaining is the most useless. If a woman complains more, she will become more and more like a dissatisfied wife, while if a man complains, it will make people look down on him. Put your mind right, with the help of purple bracelets, heart sutra and even a bowl of chicken soup for the soul, don't easily put your mind in the grass that is still complaining. You can be more comfortable when you put your mind right. The so-called knower is not as good as the good, and the good is not as good as the happy. Facing the work and enjoying it, we can understand three kinds of tastes. Increasing time is not to advocate working overtime day and night, but to improve the concept of time appropriately and reduce the waste of normal working hours. It has been said that 30% of work time is wasted on socializing or chatting, which reduces time consumption and can accomplish 30% more work than others without often working overtime.
Someone will always put forward this view to refute: what is your purpose of improving efficiency? The more capable you are, the more work you will be given. In most cases, especially in party and government organs and institutions, if you do too much, you will often make too many mistakes. On the contrary, you might as well not do it. Moreover, if you do more, your salary will not increase, and if you do well, you may not be promoted.
What I want to say is that you basically just regard work as a burden, or a means of promotion. In this case, our values may be different, and it is difficult to convince anyone. It's just that if we regard our daily work as a burden and laziness as the only happiness, it's really pitiful that we have to endure more than 40 years of suffering from entering the workplace in our twenties to retiring at the age of 65.