How do I stop fricking up on the job? Working with a very small arbor company and I feel like I just can’t wake up and do things right the first time. I want to learn how to climb up tress since there is more money in doing that. I always mess up at least twice on the most simplest and basic things when I am helping the tree climber.
The first 2-3 years are non-stop learning. Dont beat yourself uo because you dont know something. It will make you nervous and mess uo even more. Your job is to learn and the more experienced peoples job is to teach you. Also even more importantly, put in your 8 hours and when you go home, think of everything else. Dont let your job live rent free in your head.
I’m 23 btw. Not exactly young as far as working goes. I’ve been like this at just about every job. I wish I could wake up and stop being so moronic
Are your out of work activities condusive to success at work?
>enough sleep
>proper diet
>mental and social interactions
>right attitude
Beating yourself up will just add a layer of distraction. I was told a long time ago when I pick up heavy materials, don't use just enough strength, focus and add 25-30% just in case. That extra focus was a good lesson. I work in homes doing fairly delicate procedures around furniture, cabinets etc. And focus is extremely important, I usually turn my phone on silent, don't talk, just focus.
I try to sleep well enough. I could do better. I want to wake up at six so I can hit the gym for an hour before work but I have been failing at doing so. I try to eat enough since it can be tough work sometimes. Plus I want to goto the gym to get stronger.
I do t really hang out with anyone.
Some days I wake up better some days k wake up worst. If I don’t chastiomyself I will never get better
I smoked weed once in January and I took some cat gummies a month ago. I have not done so sine
Regarding the Gym, I find it best when going tk sleep at 9 and waking up at 430. something about that schedule lets me go Nocaff all day and have boundless energy and laser focus till about 830 and I have pretty severe unmedicated Adhd
>If I don’t chastiomyself I will never get better
There's a balance. You've gotta be your best friend, because you're gonna have to hang out with yourself all the time. That means being honest with yourself and also being kind to yourself in the way you would hope your best friend would be.
If you talk to yourself like a negative, nagging wife you've chosen to be a toxic friend to yourself and that shit is moronic as frick. Don't do that.
Also, you are young and learning a job takes a long time. Even when you're competent you'll keep finding new things you don't know how to do and you'll always feel somewhat like you don't know fully what you're doing. That's how the majority of competent, functional adults feel.
Do you smoke weed and it totally doesn't effect you unless you just took a hit?
Also 23 here, I've been going through the same thing. It helps to realize that some co-workers will expect this behavior from greenhorns so putting this pressure on yourself won't help anything, and even the best training won't prevent every mistake. All we can do is just take note for next time and let experience guide us from mistakes.
Stop eating garbage carbs and sugar. They rot your brain and give you brain fog. Fast for three days and you’ll see how well your brain functions while you’re in ketosis.
at my last job i was the exact same
it was at a factory and i didn't really care all that much apparently because i would do something (for the first time, completely new to me), frick up and then do it perfectly the second time around, on the rare occasions that i got to do things a second time
they let me go after 18 days i think
i just wish they told me what i fricked up instead of keeping it all a secret
How does one develop a workers mindset
>do things right the first time
Nobody does things right the first time. That's the whole reason school, training, practice, etc exist.
When I correctly diagnose a network issue on my first guess, that's not because I have 300IQ or something. It's because I've diagnosed and fixed thousands of issues before, so I've learned how things work and what to look for. Same goes for trimming trees, tying knots, driving a car, or anything that involves more than 2 steps.
>accomplish meaninfgul task
>brain releases dopamine as reward
>tackle next task
>get more dopamine
>repeat
>focus
>learn from mistakes
>repeat until you're gud
Most trades aren't about how smart you are. They're closer to participating in a sport or doing a craft. You're going to come into the game with some talent, you can think your way out of some situations, but most of the outcome is decided by your prep and training. If something needs to happen very fast, it's your instinct and training. If you come up to a fork in the road, experience knows which route to take without help.
Do something you can take pride in. Try to provide a better finished product for others than what you'd need yourself. Detach your ego from the work and results. If all your clients love you too much then raise your rates because you also need to eat.
How do I eat breathe and shit the job?
I tried electric for 2 years. Bottom line was my mind was too ADD for the job. Too much multitasking and too little organization of thought and planning for a line of work that requires absolute documented perfection for safety purposes
I'm a book binder now, making slightly more, and much much happier doing it because I got the job through a buddy and the boss is absolutely chill
90% of job enjoyment is all about who you work with
Arborists are usually dickheads anyway. You wanna climb trees? get side work where fricking up isnt an option.
get a vertical spiral field notes journal (picrel) and put it in your back pocket with a half-length no2 pencil (EVERY DAY)
before you start any task requiring more than one step, (which is ALL of them) make your first action writing down a bullet point list of all the thing you have to do to complete the objective.
then.
rewrite it by prioritizing subtask among three groups, 'prep', 'work', 'post'... make sure to be detailed exactly how/what measure and how/what it takes to prepare/breakdown workspace.
Keep doing this practice until you have no more pages left and repeat until the practice of creating 'priority queues' are hard coded in your pre-work routine.
tl:dr Verbalize your success-outcome, aka "I know I have succeeded when ___" then work backward to bullet point all subtasks in 3 groups (prep, work, post-work)
This practice works in all areas of life.