Planning for work relates to the steps one takes in preparing for their job. This could range from anything like finding appropriate outfits for work as well as doing work at home in order to use time at their work usefully. Lastly, it could mean planning out the time one spends on different areas during work to maximize their productivity.
People can improve their career and personal life by ranking areas as important and prioritizing their time. Using time wisely for productive and important tasks are key to bettering career and personal lives. Such as using time at work to get through work appropriately and spending time at home to catch up with family and possibly work out to better ones health.
In the future after schooling, I will be an elementary teacher. For this job I will first need to learn how to dress appropriately and professionally. It is also important that I have my lesson plans and class activities planned out before class time. I also will need to plan the amount of time I spend on each lesson in class as well as how I will utilize my lunch break and spend time after students have gone home.
This RichardStep Marketing survey was designed to get a better understanding of what really gets under the skin of those folks out there dealing with planning for work. Read over the awesome answers below and see how you can tailor your business to address the frustrations of the people most relevant to your business niche market. Want more? Read the 125 other topics in the ‘Frustrations’ survey category by clicking here.
The following list are uncut and raw responses of the things this group found most frustrating in their daily lives.
Planning for Work
- At work I’ve been frustrated by the need to create a plan for our organization to assess the workplace climate. I participate in an internal human resource committee and feel drained by creating a plan that is non-threatening for our senior management to consider taking on this much needed assessment. I estimate that our turnover rate it 25% or more and management has not communicated any interest in hearing employee concerns or interest in boosting employee morale. I prefer to actively seek out answers rather than sit and complain but it’s frustrating feeling that I need to push and advocate for something that should already come from leadership rather than from the bottom up.
- At work yesterday I spent two hours filling in grade columns that are required for all teachers, even if I didn’t have the assessments to back up the grades I was giving students. Not all policies apply to all teachers, students, and grade levels (for example why do I need two assessments on the standard “students can speak clearly and problem solve” when I see that every day and can assess it without filling in extra grades online) and it was annoying and frustrating to waste so much time filling in assessment columns when I could have been planning more cool lessons to do with my students.
- At work, I am expected to work on my limiters – I have an action plan in place. When work gets busy, my action plan is the first thing I ignore. My boss makes me go in and work this plan which at times, I feel really doesn’t impact my work….
- Coordinate a plan for people to rotate through jobs. I asked my coworkers for their inputs, they blew me off, gave their inputs to another coworker who did nothing with them, and when I followed up everyone looked at me like they had done their part flawlessly and rather than helping they got frustrated and defensive.
- I am a CNA at an assisted living community for seniors. I work on a medicine cart along with another person. I have half the rooms and they have the other half. Well we were on the floor for no more than 10 minutes and he calls and asks me if I can help him when I’m done. This frustrates me because 1. He always is asking me for help when we work together and 2. Him asking me for help before we even got started just made me feel like he was planning on failing..
- I don’t know what to do with my life and I have lost faith in myself. I hate my job and few other jobs seem compelling. I chose the wrong education and now i’ve wasted several years. And I’m tired. I just want to win a million dollars and spend my days decorating my home and walk in the forest, not having to cope with people. I have no plans, I’m lost. My job is frustrating all the time, since my boss gives me no work to do even though I beg her for it, and when she gives me a job it’s totally brainless and she wants to controll everything all the time.
- I had a discussion with a higher up about the details of our 401K plan. I interpreted the text explaining the way the company matches in a different way to how the company interprets it. When I asked for clarification, I felt that they weren’t willing to listen to my questions and made no effort to understand my perspective.
- I had to plan my lessons for work as a teachers assistant because the main teacher was absent. On top of this I had to finish a project that was supposed to be a group project by myself because my assigned partner was incapable of helping. That same week I also had to make plans for my tutee and find time to study for a big exam.
- I had to work for my degree, and there was something that I couldn’t figure out so I remainded stuck. But in the end, after a few days I worked it out. I realized that I souldn’t be so stressed when things don’t go as planned, and be more relaxed as I acomplish certain things.
- I hope you didn’t want a short answer. Background: I’m on my vacation visiting family. We are a loving family. If you made a reality TV show about us nobody would watch it because we help each other and don’t fight. My Niece teaches theater. Her show opens tonight. My brother and I have been helping her, in fact I planned my trip so I’d be here the week before the show opens so I could help out. What’s frustrating is that I’ve spent more time on the show than I expected (which I should have expected :) ) and I’ve hardly spent any time with my mom. I’ve told her I’m sorry I’m not spending much time with her and she’s OK with it because I planned the trip so I could help with the show, but I still feel bad. The show is important because it’s my niece’s first teaching job and only the second show they’ve done. Last night at rehearsal an important piece of equipment broke so my brother and I will be fixing it today. I had hoped to spend some time with my mom today. I usually go with her on Friday to deliver food for Meals on Wheels.
- I just started a new job and 2 months into the job I felt like I wasn’t being challenged. I just sat at my desk all day. I spoke with my boss about it and I felt he wasn’t responsive to my concerns. Also, I’m having a hard time adjusting to his supervisory style. He is very laid back. I can be laid back, but when it comes to my job, I like structure and able to plan ahead.
- I told my family about which course I wanted to study but then mum said that I should face the reality, which is that I can barely get a job after I graduate. I feel so frustrating because I had done so many research on it and plan for it, Just because of what she said, I have to redo the plan to find another program that can feed myself in the future.
- I was asked to repaint a painting to have a different flow on how the image leads the viewer’s eye after working on the painting for over 16 hours. It was frustrating that after my hard work that I had to change the tone of the painting by changing the color pallet and adding more plants.
- Inspite of my longterm(28 years) outstanding contributions, I faced setback and stgnancy in my service career in the organization due conspiratorial schemes by group having communal feeling. I exposed the activities before higher authorities.no result, no amount of appeal could move them. I took voluntary retirement.they blocked my pension and retirement benefits without communication or reason, complete lawlessness. I m waiting since last 2 years. I m pennyless today , who has given his entire life relentlessly to the organisation. I plan to start a small business shhortly.
- Just being at work earlier this year when I just didn’t have enough work to do. And now just being at work in general where I’m not being challenged, learning or working to any plan and not sure where I’m going in that job, but feeling like the job has potential but I just can’t get any traction on the job and am sick of waiting.
- On the phone with the insurance company trying to change my childs insurance plan policy because the Dr. he is currently seeing is out of network, so now I have to change the plan so Dr. will be in network so my son can have surgery. When all they had to do was approve the surgery because the same Dr, will ultimately do the surgery anyways. I hate formalities.
- One of the most frustrating parts of my last few days was at work on Friday, I am currently working as a Financial Analyst Co-Op at a local plant. I had to export some data from SAP to Excel. Because of some special characters, the export was very jumbled. It took me an hour and a half to get the data straightened out. It was a very repetitive process that I did not think added value. It was frustrating because it took so much time and that the technology was unable to fix itself.
- The most frustrating thing i’ve had to do in the past was a homework. In fact, professor wanted to me to lead a meeting so, I was the first responsible of it, if it is good, it will be because of me, if not, always because of me. Then, I had to work hard for how to planify it.
- The most frustrating to me is to have nothing to share with my family when asked about any changes to my employement status. With no job, no plans and visions of myself I have been miserable for a long time and I need someting to happen in my life to change. And what is more important I need to change myself!
- There is a co-worker of mine that lives about 45 minutes from work. He has been staying with my sister and I since January (Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and occasional weekends). He is a dancer so his classes do not get out until 10. By that time, he doesn’t want to drive home so he ends up staying wit us–which was fine for a little while and then it became too much. He doesn’t contribute to staying with us in ANY way. I am not asking for money but it would be nice if you cleaned the bathroom once in a while or made a quick dinner. Too make a long story short, my sister and I have had to come up with a plan to tell him he can no longer stay with us after
- This test is not frustrating at all. The hardest thing for me is grasping the concept of time and taken visionary ideas and putting them into a detailed plan so that others can help me. Often, I find myself with great ideas, but work insane hours in order to pull them off because I tend to fly by the seat of my pants instead of planning. Not because I don’t think a plan can be valuable, just that there is so much uncertainty, that an a raw allegiance to plan is toxic, and I also find the most innovation and creativity when you are in the thick of a problem, actively working on it.
- Why do I believe in certain principles, aspire to them, even get motivated about them, but find them so hard to achieve? Real problem in getting to work ontime and delivering on projects like I should. How come I can draw up perfect plans and allocate time but not have the discipline to follow it to the letter?????