Anyone else really enjoy filling out forms?

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Until recently I had a not quite good, but OK career as a number cruncher form filler. I did like it!

Maybe I'll do the tax preparer thing next year. Last time I paid an accountant to do my taxes was several years ago. I happened to look at her screen and saw she was using software that I could get at Target for $30 (at the time) - she typically charged well over 100. So did another guy I used, and he had no professional background in #s whatsoever, just put the #s in the puter and up it popped.

computer treason - double post sorry

I used to love forms when I was a child, but they were very simple forms - just name, address, hobbies, age etc. I couldn't understand why adults hated their forms until I grew up and saw them for myself. Now I hate them. For one thing, the consequences of getting anything wrong can be quite bad. For another, there's always questions that don't make sense. Or some that I don't have the answers for. Web forms can be better if they're well-designed - I can amend my responses - but it's easier to fudge an answer on a paper form, because the Web forms often don't let you proceed until you've entered something in their preferred format

Last one insisted on dates as DD/MM/YYYY, which was silly because one of the questions was "when did your condition first become a problem?" - I was stuck for about 10 minutes on that one, because there's no definitive answer and certainly no exact date for it, unless it's my date of birth, but I figured AS doesn't really show for at least a year or two. My perfectionism and pathological honesty make it very difficult for me to decide on answers like that, I get locked onto one question and forget the big picture.....some people just glibly leave all sorts of fields blank, but I have to really ponder whether or not I'll get away with doing that.

Some questions seem to have ulterior motives - e.g. "do you know the likely cost of re-building your house?" - that was from a financial adviser who was keen to sell me some house insurance with extra cover for re-building in the event of the house falling down, though I was only there to check out better ways of investing my savings. I'd have been less suspicious if there had been a balancing question "do you think your house is likely to fall down in your lifetime?" but the form shied away from that issue.

But I like questions generally (I guess most of what we all do on WP is to answer questions). I haven't been tired of questions very often - when I have, it's been because somebody's just asked too many of them, too rapidly, which eventually wears me down, like too many demands on my attention usually does. At least with questions you get the chance to speak, whereas with general attention-seeking you very often don't.

Filling out forms is one of my favorite tasks. Then again, the love of completing forms helped immensely when applying for services, education and medical treatment for my children. Go figure.

Oh, and I held a job in the copy center at Staples and was a paralegal before starting a family. I was up to my armpits in forms to fill out.

You should move to the UK and make use of our social security system. Every bugger else does.

No not really.

I hate filling out forms so much. I wouldn't have a problem with them, but none of the options are ever specific, they always seem to use vague terminalogy or give narrow unfulfilling multiple choice options.

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I HATE FORMS. Mostly because of how illogical they are. Have one uniform format so we can do it once an crank out as many copies as we need. This is something I hate in job hunting. I'd rather submit a resume and not do an application until I am seriously being considered for the job. Having to do the same type of thing over and over again just sucks the life out of me.

i much prefer filling them in rather than filling them out.

Interesting.....when I was unemployed, I just used to send off CVs and ignore the forms. I figured (and was advised by a friend) that to fill in the forms would just be duplicating information at my own expense. I did get a couple of interviews and my current job out of it, so they clearly don't always throw CVs in the bin. It also sends an important message to the prospective employer, without having to be openly rude - that I don't necessarily jump just because they say "jump!"

Does it count if I used to collect forms when I was little? Applications for employment, subscription sign-up forms, registration forms, etc.

I wish I still had all those forms.

I do really enjoy filling out forms as long as the instructions are clear. If something is even a tiny bit ambiguous, I get really distressed and panic about what I'm supposed to put. I tend to over-analyze to a rediculous degree.

I like surveys. I always get confused with important forms.

I find filling out forms boring.

And I also screw up. A couple weeks ago I was at the DES office to re-apply for my AHCCCS (Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System) health insurance and to also apply for foodstamps for the first time. I fill out all the forms for the heath care. Then I get to the food stamp form which is only one page, most of it is asking about pregnancies and stuff that us dudes don't really have anything to do with (well, we never used to until recently ), so I start checking boxes next to NONE. I didn't realize that the tiny section at the bottom where all I have to do is fill out my income information because thanks to its size so I assume it's part of the rest. So after that, I end up thinking that the whole page doesn't apply to me and I feel embarrassed that I touched that section at all so I cross it out with a big X.

Pamphlet over. I hand it in and the lady asks, "If you're applying for food stamps then why did you cross this page out?
*facepalm* The page turned out to be relevant for me and she almost made me fill out a whole 'nuther pamphlet.