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Five stress-busting tips for IT pros

Why bother busting stress anyway? Stressful times call for stressful personalitites. Fight or flight time, children!

the only IT stress I get is from the IT Dept.

When I manage my own systems,
I have way less problems than IT managed systems

interesting that they are all ways of coping, not removing. Better still we all know what coping in business means don't we?

More......

Plagiarism, pure and simple this straight of a how to deal with stress website.

How about how to stop management stressing you out, I could do with an article on that.

You do know what we do for a living, right?

Tuesday morning last week, my mental state was such that I was about ready to go nuke. When I got to work, there was a person parked to my left who was fiddling with her driver-side door with a big screwdriver, and pretty agitated. It turned out that the door would not shut! The latch in the door itself was jammed. I messed with it for a few seconds, and got it to work. Blind, stinking luck for sure, but that lady sure was happy. She could drive her car once again, and would not be late for her interview after all!

I don't know how, but it helped me too.

All too often in our job, it' hard to prove that we have......

Get rewarded for it, well that's even more difficult....

Not to mention getting a big smile from someone of the female persuasion which always cheers a bloke up.

I've read that a major cause of stress is a lack of control over events that affect me. When new situations, where I'm lacking power, start to pile up, my feelings about them can crowd out a broader awareness of all the options and power I do have to feel good about life.

I can see at least two ways that helping someone can tend to put things back in perspective:

1) It's a reminder of power that I do have. I have lots of abilities, professional and otherwise, that are valuable in an infinite variety of situations.

2) It's a chance to make a human connection. The desire to feel connected seems to be a big motivator behind a lot of my goals, but simple connections can be very satisfying, if I really pay attention to them. I try to take time to just listen to people (when other priorities aren't pressing), and look beneath their words and tone, imagine what they might be feeling and try to empathize with that. It's free, it's powerful, it helps me feel connected and sometimes the other person even notices and appreciates it.

The tips do work once you get over your ego.

I am in the IT field myself and the tip that works for me is that I keep telling myself that "I have an ALTERNATIVE". To have an alternative in any tough situation is the key to bust out the stress and support from the FAMILY is a must.