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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I am exactly like you, exactly. Once I had kids I really did not feel that I had enough bandwidth to be a good parent and a good employee, so I gradually backed out of the workforce and am now a SAHM. When I was working, I didn't realize how low my productivity was, but now I look back and totally see how much of a mismatch my working style was with the profession I was in. I was an attorney, and when I had to draft a memo or a brief, I had to do *exhaustive* research that took many hours so I would be absolutely certain I wasn't missing anything important. I revised and revised and revised. I had a hard time letting good enough be good enough and letting things go and turning in a final product. I'm really convinced that this is just a personality trait that can be handled with practice but not changed. I got into photography as a hobby earlier this year and took newborn photos for a couple of friends (for free) and noticed the exact same tendencies -- spent hours and hours editing and trying to make everything perfect, obsessing over what I could have done differently during the shoots, procrastinating turning over the photos because I was afraid they weren't perfect.  I am a huge procrastinator by nature and I constantly underestimate how much time things are going to take. I don't have any advice for you since I don't think I've necessarily learned to cope with these issues in my own life (really I have only realized that I had them in the past couple of years), but you are definitely not alone.[/quote]

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