Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Dispatcher ADHD

The longer I do this job, the harder I find it to focus on just. one. thing.

I'm reading 3 different books right now. I'm not happy unless I have 8 tabs of internet open, a movie on TV, music playing, and multiple text message conversations taking place. And that's at home.

Give me a slow district at work and watch my mental breakdown occur one hour at a time. At 2300 I'm trying to bring incidents on my screen through sheer force of will. By 0200 I'm instituting a game of traffic stop bingo and trying to talk my officers into mock pursuits in their personal vehicles. The former is great fun, the latter never happens but I'm not giving up just yet.

Tonight I'm sitting in data with no data to run. My partner is sitting here highlighting passages in her bible and sighing heavily, so... yeah. I'm out of Netflix movies. My Google Reader is empty. I've had 3 cups of coffee.

Help.

4 comments:

  1. Might I offer you a Valium? Just kidding. ;-)

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  2. Snort. No. But I could've used one last night for my podmate. Oy.

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  3. AWWW I'm sorry!! I'd love to give you something to do! Maybe I can pass some of Townsvilles crazy ppl to you!!!

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  4. I HAVE BEEN ON THE JOB NOW ALMOST 5 YEARS. I FIND MY SHORT TERM MEMORY GETTING WORSE, ITS HARDER FOR ME TO CONCENTRATE WHEN PEOPLE ARE TALKING TO ME OUTSIDE OF THE JOB AND I ALSO HAVE A LOT OF THINGS OPEN ALL THE TIME. UGH...DOES IT GET ANY BETTER?

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