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Appreciating Your Stressful IT Job?

Posted by Cliff on from the coping-with-the-heat-in-the-kitchen dept.

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?"

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  1. Have a baby. by arkanes · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Have a baby. by BobLenon · · Score: 4, Funny

      Theres only a couple of reasonable ideas:

      * Drink - often ;)
      * Threaten to set building on fire - Milton Style
      * Destroy the internet .. after that im not sure ;)

      --

      /* Lobster Stick To Magnet!*/
  2. Easy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Simple. Be unemployed... Also seems to go hand in hand with an IT career.

  3. Re:Same here... ...but you learn how to cope. by sydb · · Score: 5, Funny

    I work as a journalist... abaility... neing... teh... minnutes... (indriectly)... returing... paniced... wer...

    Yeah, I'd be stressed too!

    --
    Yours Sincerely, Michael.
  4. Marry a Bitch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!'"

    1. Re:Marry a Bitch by arnie_apesacrappin · · Score: 5, Funny
      One day a co-worker of mine was having a really bad day because of his divorce. He imparted these words of wisdom:

      "You know what marriage is? Find a woman you hate and buy her a house."

      --

      Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that. -CP

    2. Re:Marry a Bitch by JordanH · · Score: 4, Funny
      • "You know what marriage is? Find a woman you hate and buy her a house."
      I don't know if Steven Seagal said it first, but:
      "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house." - Steven Seagal.
    3. Re:Marry a Bitch by gray+code · · Score: 5, Funny

      The glass is half full guys, not half empty!

      reminds me of a joke:
      The pessimist says, "this glass is half empty."
      The optimist says, "this glass is half full."

      the engineer says, "this glass is exactly twice as large as it needs to be."

    4. Re:Marry a Bitch by uncleFester · · Score: 4, Funny

      The pessimist says, "this glass is half empty."

      not only is the glass half-empty.. it's also evaporating.

      -r

      --
      -'fester
  5. Re:Same here... ...but you learn how to cope. by MyHair · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, give him a break: his editor was out of the office.