What kind of multitasking is hardest for you

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What kind of required everyday task requiring multitasking do you struggle with the most? For me, it's writing down notes during a lecture. What's yours?

I am terrible at all forms of mulit-tasking, school work, socially, house work, video games, even cooking. I have a one track mind.

I think jobs that mix technical and non-technical things irritate me. I tried a tech support job and had difficulty trouble shooting while talking to people on the phone while at the same time writing down my report.

I'm in college now and I'm enjoying my programming courses and it annoys the hell out of me that I have a writing course in the mix. I don't necessarily dislike writing actually, but I'm driven to focus on learning to code and this class feels like a distraction. I want to master coding which I feel is much more valuable in the job market and I know I can write already after passing English Composition 1 & 2 with As.

I'm okay at most multitasking. I really struggle with getting ready in the morning in general. I definitely won't be able to answer texts when I'm trying to focus on getting ready. Especially if people send 10 of them in a row. I wish iPhones could have an auto text replyer.

Unexpected multitasking is hardest for me.
If I know ahead of time that I'll need to do X, Y and Z at the same time, I can muddle through.
But if I start out thinking I can concentrate on X, then suddenly Y comes up and needs immediate attention but I can't stop X to concentrate on Y, and then just when I got used to doing X and Y at the same time, Z rears its ugly head... that kind of thing tends to get to me.

I tend to think: Because I think fast, I may be good at multitasking. Only I have two hands for multitasking. The hardest for me is driving a car in a crowded city and have a conversation with someone. Driving on a highway and have a chat is quite possible in my case.

The easiest way of multitasking is cooking: baking meat, potatoes and vegetables at the same time (three things) is the easiest. I can also combine it with using the TV set as a radio.

Managing multiple egos, in an office or social setting. Trying to track all of the body language, what is said, who is making eye contact with each other, who is looking out the window when a person at the meeting is talking, etc in a work meeting, for example, is difficult.

It's hard to attend to all of that, while also remembering all the stuff each person said or did outside of the meeting, that contradicts what they say or how they act while "onstage" in the meeting. Since nearly everyone there was lying about or misrepresenting something, or despised at least one person there who they were pretending to get along with, those associative memories were intrusive. And then I had to remember not to bring those things up, even indirectly.

And of course, someone always thought it was a good idea for me to record the meeting minutes (take notes and distribute). They never thought that for long, though. I would doodle through the whole meeting and then send out an email with my best recollection of what had happened in it. And then someone else would be assigned to take the minutes.

listening and writing at the same time.

I just cannot do it.

Every type

I'm just no good at multitasking.

I can't do two media at once (TV and radio). It's either one or the other.

I can, somewhat, do work when I'm on the phone with someone (if the work is purely of a rote, monotonous nature).

Taking notes/writing and talking at the same time. If I had a drivers license, it would surely be driving and communicating at the same time.

All of it. I'm so focused I only made one permanent friend throughout my entire undergrad degree, apparently an odd thing in the NT world. I couldn't cope with juggling my subjects and trying to socialise at the same time.

Cooking can be hard for me when I have to do multiple steps at once. My husband says I am a terrible cook. But he doesn't mean it that my food is bad but I tend to do silly things like leave the burner on or have the fire on too high and forgetting to turn it down or adding a spice too soon or too late.

Also driving is hard for me.

Trying to have a conversation at the same time I'm doing anything else.

Driving with someone else in the car. If I'm alone it's okay. I'm not talking to myself and the radio is off. If someone starts talking it distracts me to the point I make mistakes, very dangerous when you're behind the wheel.