How to deal with porridge in the head at work?

Question

IT education

There are so many projects at work that you have to keep track of + you have to constantly learn something new and at the same time you have to do it all quickly. Because of all this non-stop nightmare, a real mess formed in my head. It turns out that, roughly speaking, I know everything about my work, but at the same time, my knowledge is so fragmentary that I can say that I don’t know anything. How to deal with it?
UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who responded, got a lot of useful advice and food for thought.

Answer 1

Comb your hair :)
A person cannot effectively manage a lot of objects. The maximum number of objects (people, things) that one person effectively manages is six. With a larger number, "priority sorting" begins, as a result of which you manage some objects more often than others - with their initial efficiency being the same.
Take on fewer projects.
Keep a tracker, record.
Bring the task to its logical conclusion.
Ten projects with two commits each is worse than two with ten commits each :)

Answer 2

1. Task tracker. Anything outside of it simply does not exist. It should be the only channel for receiving/processing tasks.
2. The most vile and nasty things to do in the morning
3. Try to do short tasks immediately, send long ones to the end of the list.
4. Delegate and set a task for yourself to control the result.
5. Work no more than 8/9 hours
6. Before / after work, forget everything that is connected with work. In order to work well, you need to have a good rest.
7. If possible, hire an assistant and teach him the basics. Most importantly, teach him to contact you in case of success / failure. If he can do this without control, then gradually begin to teach him everything that, at least in theory, you can delegate in the future.
Once you get the whole process going in this way, the feeling of panic/porridge should go away. Efficiency will increase and there will be more time, you will be able to study the background of complex tasks in detail.

Answer 3

As an option - to change jobs, where there will be one or two large projects and there will be no such rush.

Answer 4

Change jobs, it’s obvious that your boss is a huckster-buyer who hasn’t managed to grow sensible personnel, therefore he is gaining a carload of small cheap jobs on the stock exchanges and merges it onto you - cheap low-professional hard workers.
Mercedes is supposed to be changed once a year, didn't you know?)))

Answer 5

Was in exactly the same situation.
The main thing to understand is that project management is a separate, independent skill, which is based not on the "brilliantly working brain of the only one", but on the possession of techniques.
D. Allen's book "How to get things in order" helped me a lot - it basically describes the GTD methodology. Having mastered it, it didn’t matter to me how many projects I had - ten or twenty or even two hundred. The number of simultaneous projects I need to keep track of and never forget is only limited by the amount of time I can spend on them.
I don't remember the status of projects. I write them down in my storage system. I don't need to remember anything - my reminder system does it for me. That is why, at the right time, the reminder system itself “speaks” to me about upcoming events that need to be paid attention to and about actions that need to be taken.

Answer 6

Delegate to bots.