The Type A Personality
According to wikipedia, a person with Type A personality is one who is "...ambitious, aggressive, business-like, controlling, highly competitive, impatient, preoccupied with his or her status, time-conscious, and tightly-wound. People with Type A personalities are often high-achieving 'workaholics' who multi-task, push themselves with deadlines, and hate both delays and ambivalence."
Yup, sounds like me, except for the whole preoccupation with my status. I'd like to think I'm not quite that bad. I'm highly organized and one of the things that make me really happy is to take an unknown situation or problem, bound the problem or issues at hand, create a game plan to mitigate that or control the situation, and execute. Oh, and change the plan as needed, because I am pretty adaptable and have fun changing the plan (too much changing though and I get over it). I love the process of it all, I love learning, but the best part for me are the results. I love taking complicated, seemingly messy situations and organizing it to make it more streamlined and efficient. Yes, I really am anal like that.
The result? I hate being confused more than anything in the world. Absolutely hate it. I hate not knowing, I hate questioning myself, I hate that my tendency to analyze the small details works against me, and I hate that I can come to a conclusion one day and realize later, in the midst of my drunkenness or after just one damn message, that I have been lying to myself. I just want to know one way or the other.
And yes, I realize that I'm totally whining right now and that I have a lot of things to be grateful for. I am totally acting like these people: http://thechive.com/2011/08/29/20-first-world-problems-20-photos/ BUT - we all get a pass once in a while, right? I'm using that pass right now. *Whine whine whine whine whine* :P
Yup, sounds like me, except for the whole preoccupation with my status. I'd like to think I'm not quite that bad. I'm highly organized and one of the things that make me really happy is to take an unknown situation or problem, bound the problem or issues at hand, create a game plan to mitigate that or control the situation, and execute. Oh, and change the plan as needed, because I am pretty adaptable and have fun changing the plan (too much changing though and I get over it). I love the process of it all, I love learning, but the best part for me are the results. I love taking complicated, seemingly messy situations and organizing it to make it more streamlined and efficient. Yes, I really am anal like that.
The result? I hate being confused more than anything in the world. Absolutely hate it. I hate not knowing, I hate questioning myself, I hate that my tendency to analyze the small details works against me, and I hate that I can come to a conclusion one day and realize later, in the midst of my drunkenness or after just one damn message, that I have been lying to myself. I just want to know one way or the other.
And yes, I realize that I'm totally whining right now and that I have a lot of things to be grateful for. I am totally acting like these people: http://thechive.com/2011/08/29/20-first-world-problems-20-photos/ BUT - we all get a pass once in a while, right? I'm using that pass right now. *Whine whine whine whine whine* :P