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With less than 5 months to go to retirement, it's hard to be stressed, except about the fact I have to show up at all!
As long as I'm getting paid I think I can handle that!
There's no drive to start any new major project, just keep things ticking and make sure I'm prepared to do a nice clean handover. Much of my time is spent documenting the crap out of everything. boring, maybe, but stressful - not so much! 
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Actually one of my most stressfull periods at work was when there wasn't any (work that is)!
I wasn't afraid of losing my job and I wasn't afraid we'd go out of business, but just that feeling of not adding value and being bored was killing me. That's when I decided to go look for another job.
Of course I'm still young and at the beginning of my career, so I don't like to be standing still right now.
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
My blog[ ^]
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I can't say I enjoy being bored. Like you, I love to be engaged. But I've learned to deal with it. I'm more active on CP and I jump at the chance a new problem.
I've worked here 12 years (OMG) and I'll be leaving a huge legacy of code and solutions. This "business" is very complex and while a solid programmer will "get the code", the reasons "why" will make a weak person run for the hills. I'm trying to document the why (not user requirements) in a way that will help a programmer take over. Between fixing the odd bug, making the odd tweak, helping with some analysis and having a laugh on here, life's not too bad!
... and I'm counting the days!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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PhilLenoir wrote: the reasons "why" Other people's code will make a weak person run for the hills
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
My blog[ ^]
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Not MY code. 
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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I've spent the bulk of the last three days trying to test my code against a sandboxed web service I suspect if still in dev. Surprise validation errors, exception messages that tell me nothing, and having to deal with, and 'bring online' a new support person each day, have totally rewritten what I used to think stress was.
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Brady Kelly wrote: exception messages that tell me nothing
I always wanted to push to Prod an exception message that says something like "Move along, there is nothing to see here. These are not the errors you are looking for."
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Hahaha, that would be great. Pretend it slipped out; fell through the cracks.
What makes this worse is that there is some info the exception message - a little four char error code thingy that seems as meaningless to their devs as it is to me.
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Once, in some C code which took a param array, probably after a coffee deficiency, I set a returned error string "Unexpected number of errors."
We laughed and laughed.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Frack! Already?! It sure snuck on me, this year I was gonna be ready for it.
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Don't stress about it.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Oh, for God's sake!
The way these bluddy mother hens interfere with your life drives me round the fruggin bend!!!
God, I could...Grrrrrrrrrr!!!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Of the 364 stressful days before that.
Repeat every year.
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I wasn't stressed.
I had a nice little change to the default value of a radio button in a Winforms application.
I started it from Visual Studio, checked it all worked, exited the app.
Made my change to the initialization of a window that gets launched from the 'menu' window that starts up when you run the app.
Now the app will not run from Visual Studio.
It is getting nowhere near the code I changed.
Now I'm stressed.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Sounds like a code rollback to me!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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OriginalGriff wrote: How about you lot: Showing signs of stress yet?
Nope, everything under control 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I presume that's because you work with Simon Travaglia?
Gasp! Are you the PFY?
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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PhilLenoir wrote: I presume that's because you work with Simon Travaglia?
Not really, there's little communication between the second and the seventh level.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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LOL - you can but aspire!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Not even a small radiation leak you need to lock down?
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Nope, Fukushima is not on the scrum-board.
If it needs be then we'd have to move with some other items though, as my time is limited by biological needs and reality
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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OriginalGriff wrote: Showing signs of stress yet?
I made a list 4 years ago with the signs of stress on me, and put it on my board just in front of me. If I realize one of them I go out to the garden (park?) and walk around 2-4 times...That way stress never pile up...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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With web sites like the NHS one I can easily become stressed, who was the bright spark who thought grey text was a good idea. I looked at it and tried to work out why the entire page was disabled, F*** I wasn't stressed!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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"stress awareness"
What bollox. Everybody knows what Stress is, as if anyones going to go "Stress? What's that then?"
And if they didn't already know what stress is, then they don't have enough brain capacity to be stressed in the first place.
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Knowing "what stress is" and that you yourself are badly stressed are two different things: I worked for twenty odd years under a heck of a lot of stress (mostly self imposed) without realising until I was forced out of the situation (and work) by an accident.
It was only a few years later that I realized what I had been doing, and putting up with, and how likely it was to have killed me if I hadn't had the accident.
It's far too easy to get into a stressful pattern and assume it's perfectly normal...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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