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I've often heard people say things to the effect of work not being so unpleasant once you've actually gotten into the swing of it, but I've never found that to be the case. I generally only find the act of working less painful than procrastinating when I'm right up against a deadline. Otherwise, even a half hour or so into it, it still feels easier to stop than continue. I'm also quite terrible at creating self imposed deadlines.
In order to increase the pain of procrastination, and the reward of working, I find it extremely helpful to have someone else waiting on me to get it done. It's much harder for me to bear disappointing others than failing to meet my own goals.
I under stand where you are coming from, as I have experienced the same thing. But only when it comes to certain kinds of work, school work or chores for example. When it is something I enjoy, like programming, I find Eliezer's observation to be spot on. If your feeling this way about your work, it might be time to consider switching career paths.
I actually am considering going to grad school for something unrelated to my undergraduate degree, but I'm not sure what my prospects are for getting into a good program.
Who do you know?
Well, I'm hoping to get into a grad program for psychology, and I'm in contact with a college (not university) psychology professor who I've managed to convince that I have a high degree of competency designing and conducting social psychology experiments, and he is himself apparently quite highly regarded among a national online community of research psychologists, but that's pretty much it as far as my connections go.