Appreciating Your Stressful IT Job?

Posted by Cliff on Saturday April 24, 2004 @12:39AM 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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you're married?! by WormholeFiend · 2004-04-24 00:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I dont even have a girlfriend you insensitive clod!

(but I do have a hot date tonight; wish me luck)
Re:Have a baby. by CdBee · 2004-04-24 03:56 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Refer to my sig to see an example of coping mechanisms in action.
Unless I've changed it since

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