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Appreciating Your Stressful IT Job?
in the trenches asks: "I'm a married, 24-year-old male, and like many posters here on Slashdot I work in the IT industry. I currently work as a website developer (mostly design-related work), but I also do some Perl and PHP programming. As most of you probably have, I've often wondered if I wouldn't enjoy working in a less stressful environment. I've even gone as far as to wonder if I'd prefer some sort of factory job or similar over my current field of work. The problem is this, I LOVE developing websites, but I HATE the stress and responsability that comes with a the job. How do you all cope with the stress and responsability that seems to come hand-in-hand with an IT career?"
200 milligram caffeine pills. I pop 'em like candy
Have a baby. You'll leave work each day with a song in your heart, knowing that there will be a minimum of bodily fluids to contend with.
Simple. Be unemployed... Also seems to go hand in hand with an IT career.
BEER
Now everything is my fault, your problem. :)
just smoke a bowl every day before work
I work as a journalist... abaility... neing... teh... minnutes... (indriectly)... returing... paniced... wer...
Yeah, I'd be stressed too!
Yours Sincerely, Michael.
You could marry someone you hate. Having a wife that sucks makes your job stress seem much less important. Which reminds me, I heard a good joke the other day in a movie I was watching: "Yesterday, over breakfast, I made a Freudian slip. I meant to ask my wife to pass the butter, but instead I said, 'You bitch! You've ruined my life!'"
Hey, you're right, it does work. Thanks.
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Wouldn't exactly make me want to go to work....
-ted
Xanax
And that's just during lunch.
Web development isn't IT in the first place. Congrats on leaving your high-stress IT job.
yep.
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How true. In interviews I'm always asked something to the effect of "this is a high stress position, how do you handle stress?" I generaly laugh and then ask them to look at page three of my resume. "See there where it says "U.S.Navy" I'll ask "Well I was the missile control center supervisor on a Polaris nuclear missile submarine. My job was to remain undetected underwater for 3 months at a time and be ready at 15 minutes notice to push the buttons which would launch 16 nuclear tipped ICBM's. That was stress. This isnt stress
There's a funny Seinfeld episode where George insists they give the security guard a chair because the poor guy has to stand around for 8 hours. He of course falls asleep once he finally gets a chair. ;-)
Hey, give him a break: his editor was out of the office.
I am in the Army, just got back from the War in Iraq in July 03 and have to go back for another whole year....I used to think my IT job was stressful, but not even close to having things explode around you
:-)
Obviously you have never been in charge of a server being slashdotted
Table-ized A.I.
I can't agree more.
Just because you have money and power doesn't mean you can't feel stress or that you're any less of a human being.
Look at me, just because I have billions and can get away with crushing my competitors ruthlessly beneath my heels (bwhahahahahah), doesn't mean I don't feel hurt when people are mean to me.
I feel stress too you know.
-- B.G.
here's also a few perks, like lots of good looking women on campus all the time
I dont know about you, but personally I just find that depressing - like life saying "look what you can't have".