Short summary of the situation:
I am a lazy person. Always have been. And until recently, I could get away with it - I was always intelligent enough as a kid and adolescent to just not do any schoolwork at all and still pass all my tests/do just enough homework to get the marks to pass. Then, I went to college and got a degree in communications (figures eh?), which I'm still kinda baffled about that I managed to make it since I still did fuck all for school.
Cue to six months ago. I finally found a 'decent' job as a communications liaison for a small (VERY small) consultancy firm. At first my duties were to design some promotional material for printing and getting it to the client company etc. Then, my next big job was to fill up that company's website. Not actually design the website itself, mind you, just the content.
Now, I am more than capable of doing this - writing and editing texts, looking up, cropping, editing images, etc, etc. But since I spend most of my time alone in the office, most of my working time is spent browing AT, various chans, playing Wow, smoking weed through a vaporizer and jacking it to mild CP.
Yesterday my boss wanted to know how far I'd come with the website. Not very far at all, obviously, unless the goal was to make a site that makes retardchan look wholesome. She berated me and made it quite clear that she was less than pleased. I had nothing to offer in rebuttal since she was pretty much dead-on.
Now, I haven't been outright fired but I can feel I'm not far away from that. I may still have a chance to rectify my mistake.
HOWEVER, even now I cannot seem to stop browsing my regular sites and I just can't seem to get started on my actual work (perhaps because I've let it pile up until it became an unmanageable mountain of chores).
I'm well aware of the self-help tips you can get from several sites by googling them, but what I'm after is advice from someone who's been in the same situation and managed to get out of it. I feel it's more of a habit, like perhaps a mild drug addiction, which is very hard but not impossible to break.
I don't *love* the actual job (it's boring mostly) but I cannot deny that it pays decently for a relatively easy time, and I do have a lot of benefits that I wouldn't have working elsewhere (Boss is usually only around for 2-3 hours a day and sometimes absent for several days), so coming in a bit late or going home early are frequent treats. So it would be a shame to lose it all because of my lazyness.
Help a fellow anon, AT, and you might get cookies.

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Since you obviously have tried and failed several times, I don't think anyone can help you. Enjoy getting fired.

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@57,298

Not today. Boss called in sick, I get a day's respite to try and catch up with my work.
Now, all I need is some fucking focus… I already drank too much coffee this morning so I'm quivering with caffeine.
Goddammit.

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Here is my overbearing two cents… It's not an addiction you "can" break, you need to think of it as one, at least for now, that you ARE GOING TO break, no matter what. No fucking exceptions. You need to get in a groove of just doing the fucking work and not letting your mind wonder. If it helps, before hand, think of all the shit you will be able to do once you finish your responsibilities, but while you are doing the work, don't think about that shit AT ALL: think about the work right in front of you and that's it. It's not going to be awesome or fun; I've been here and it's boring as shit. Oh well. Do it anyways. You will feel a lot fucking better once it's all done and behind you. I used to get "fuck! finally I'm done!" highs back when I was doing tedious, long-winded stuff. So… lesson? Just fucking do it, and don't dick around getting coffee, and don't go fap to not****chan. Do your fucking job until it's done. (also, don't tell yourself you are incable of doing that; you know that's bullshit)

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If you are really that lazy, I don't think you can be motivated by anybody else. The solution is to "outsource" the work. Just find a friend and have them do it for you, then fork over half your paycheck to them as a thank you. Getting content together can't take more than 2 hours for a small business, so you should be able to finish the whole task from your computer at home. Really, just throw it together like a school project. If you end up keeping your job, I'd suggest you stop drinking coffee, stop playing WoW, and maybe see a shrink about your short attention span.

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Eat (don't smoke it) small amounts of meth to increase your focus. Or get prescription ADD drugs if you can. It's a relatively shitty band-aid approach but I can promise you it will work as short fix. Btw when I say a small amount I mean like .02 of a gram maybe once every 2-3 hours tops, possibly longer in between.

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Truth be told, I have been thinking about stuff like Adderall and such. I have indeed read that in small amounts, amfetamines can really improve focus on boring tasks and such.
I don't know where the hell to get it, though. None of the people I know use hard drugs or socialise with dealers. I have no medical basis to ask for Adderall at my doctor's, either.

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If you can get weed then i'm sure all you'd need to do is ask, drugs are easy to score in pretty much any city anywhere in the world. I remember reading an article about a tourist who OD'd in my city which is a capital city in Australia, he got of his plane with no contacts or friends in the city and managed to OD within 2hours of leaving the airport.

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Update: 6/8 of my working day and completed absolutely none of the given tasks. Fuck that shit.
As for drugs; I can get my weed easily from Holland, no dealers involved. So I really don't know where I should look for that sort of thing (well, not anymore since I'm out of college).

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Close your web browser and start working, dammit!

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OP, you sound exactly like me. Except I was diagnosed with ADD from a psychologist before college started. Now I'm in college, and I'm at the top of all my classes. I suggest that you investigate the possibility that you might have ADD. Get a prescription for Adderall, and see how that works out for you. It should definitely get you on track.

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