Crushing deadline
Gots me a crushing deadline this coming Friday. Had a related deadline this last Friday, as well, but the boss seemed disappointed with the degree of polish (or lack thereof) of my draft chapter for the report.
A big part of it -- as my wife pointed out -- is that some people do the formatting first, and **then** fill in the specifics, populate the tables, etc. I do it the other way around -- because why make a table all pretty if your colleagues tell you to completely change it? Why pre-format text if it's going to be massively edited?
Ah well: revised version due this Friday. Chance to redeem myself.
--GG
posted by Gye Greene @ 9:47 PM
3 Comments:
Well, your method is the better of the two (IMHO). Too often people spend two times as long getting something ready by being distracted by the formatting, layout, etc. Then they enter the content, and as always the layout gets affected, which needs to be re-adjusted to fit the new content. Happens to people who write documents in a word processor or (shudder) powerpoint. Ah well...
D*la,
Thanks for the support. :)
--GG
A common problem. Very few people can easily look below the surface to see the value of what's there. I find myself having the same problem sometimes. I'm sure you and your boss will work it out.
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