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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. Re:Have a baby. by Foofoobar · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh joy! How I love to clean Stimpy's diaper and wipe Stimpy's ass!

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  2. Luxury! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm an Iraqi and I have to stay here ALL YEAR ROUND, 365/24/7 with you sons of bitches trying to kill us.

  3. I'll tell ya how... by GabeK · · Score: 0, Troll

    waiting for 20 seconds... waiting waiting waiting waiting Miller Lite

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  4. Re:"stress" is a waste of a word. by torpor · · Score: 0, Troll

    as my good captain friend used to say "too many priests, not enough altar girls!!!"

    never knew what he meant, but i don't care. mmm... altar girls...

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  5. Re:Stress? by FLOOBYDUST · · Score: 0, Troll

    To all you whiners suffering from such a stress filled life........ Do a few things to cure your stress....... 1) Go visit Gettysburg, Valley Forge or any Revolutionary War or Civil War battlefield. Look and listen.. These young farmers gave up a hell of a lot more than you ever did to make this country what its is. Hey "cliche advice hater" . Here's on for you. USA love it or LEAVE IT. 2) If your job does not have the real possibilty of someone trying to kill you then your stress is in your head and not in your job. Public safety workers, police , fire, EMT's put their life on the line every time they put on their uniform. Not quite the same as responding to a hard disk crash or a server breakdown. Not a cliche... just a fact 3) Read the Gettysburg address. 4) Read the Constitution of the United States. 5) Volunteer your time on something different than you work on. It's a big world out there. You are better off than you think. 6) Volunteerng to serve in the US Armed Forces is an honorable and noble calling. Not all can do it. Those who serve and later return to civilian life make this a better country in which to live...