when they screwed up to not worry about it too much. Odds were they would screw up much worse than this in the future. THAT sent the local touchy-feely HR person into a ground loop! But in my business all the pros have war stories about their spectacular screw ups. It's hard to feel humiliated when senior colleagues have screw ups of such greater proportions to share.

There are a number of organization systems for handling work so as to not miss assignments etc. Pick one. If it doesn't work discard it for another. You worked through college just fine getting things done - what has changed? Many things to be sure, but the answer is in the details. Take the time to objectively review your work processes vs work load. Being new and trying to be impressive are you taking on too much? You are concerned about going above and beyond what's expected. That's admirable, but let's make sure that you're first meeting what is currently expected.

Work with your boss on this. If there were 200 people in the applicant pool I can guarantee you that not everyone on your interview team wanted to hire you. In all probability though your current manager wanted to hire you and has a vested interest in your success beyond just getting the job done right. And while she probably doesn't get the whole ADD/anxiety thing, she did immediately try to provide some help. What you need to demonstrate now is that you are working on it.

Believe me every manager has had people cry on them; or almost cry on them. Given the continuum of subordinates' emotions that most managers have experienced a few tears aren't that bad. Just as long as it doesn't become habit. Having to distribute pictures of a disgruntled employee to your neighbors and day care provider because said employee has threatened your family? That's bad.

Misspelled words should be caught by the spell checker unless you assembled the word out of pictures of letters. If the tool you are using doesn't have a spell checker create the text in a tool that does. If it's a web deployed app try using Firefox with its built in spell check function. Set up correspondence templates to auto date. If it's something you have to manually date get a stamp. if it's something legal that you have to manually date get a stamping tool that increments the date automatically. My point is to make your tools do as much of the detail work as possible. You need to do the creative work the machines cannot.

If you are going to crawl into a hole make sure to take some work with you. Might as well get something done while you're in there. Same thing with feeling humiliated. Unless you can derive some great motivation from feeling humiliated I wouldn't bother. It's a profitless, draining emotion.

Besides, you've got more important work to do!

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