What are you like in the work place?

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I'm the type of person that thrives on pressure and Iike to go on auto pilot when I'm doing a job, physically I'm adept in doing anything but mentally I like to space out so I'm perfect in hospitality because I can take orders and do money transactions and pour drinks easy but doing retail or an office/computer job would drive me insane because the act of pushing my brain to do something it doesnt want to do will give me an aneurism.

I was always taught to look busy, don't lean on anything, look for something to do and don't ask to be told to do something and just have a sense of urgency. I can carry 7 plates to a table and clear a table of 20 by myself in one go.

The problem with me is that I think I need to settle down because I always notice other people I work with and they don't work with the same amount of urgency as I do and they get by fine in fact they're usually higher up than me or get more shifts and they all have horrible personalities and they don't do much.

I don't want to sound sexist but I watch girls work all the time and I try to be like them. I'm 6ft3 and I'm even taller when I wear my work boots and I always notice people who are smaller than me when they walk around they take more steps than me and therefore they look like they're walking faster than me and that I must look like Im working slower so I try and work faster....I watch girls the way they sweep floors and its almost magical the way they do it so meticulously and graceful it looks like they're doing nothing but heres me breaking out in a sweat heaving and lifting chairs and tables so I can get access sweeping, at one point I realised I sweep too violently and that I actually throw the shit everywhere and that some jobs you need to be delicate.

I just hate the thought of people thinking I'm lazy so i pour so much physically into what I'm doing. Sometimes when I start work though I get so excited and I'm full of energy physically but mentally I'm paranoid that people are watching me or the boss is watching me on the cameras that I get crippled and I walk around as a nervous wreck and not do anything for the first 10 mins but walk around really fast cleaning shit and looking busy that I can't take orders or serve people till I settle down and get into the groove otherwise I'll fuck shit up.