Lately I've been feeling a lot more stress than usual. We've got a project that never ends and new features have been requested weekly for over a year. A large number of new features or changes, and some big ones are supposed to be done by January, but I'm also going to be pulled off to work on 2 other projects very soon which will take up most of the time until then. Plus I'm feeling a bit stressed about preparing for this course I'm taking in January so I don't look like an idiot/newbie taking an advanced level course in a language I have no experience with.
Today I was at a client's for a 1 hour meeting, then a second 1 hour meeting which stretched to take my full day. There was a great buffet for lunch, but also I was trying to demo something and I swear not one thing I tried for over an hour worked. I got so stressed out my nose started bleeding. It turns out my data import program couldn't find data it needed to properly link new data which caused problems, and also I had an old version of a client program talking to the newer version of the server. The versions are not 100% compatible. That's not the first time my nose has started bleeding under stress. It happend 2-3 times this year. I know I have higher than normal blood pressure and it runs in the family. I might need to consider blood pressure medication like my Grandpa takes. I'm only 23!
Working from his home office in Toronto,
Ryan de Laplante can be found developing software in
Java by day, and obsessing with technology by night.
Ryan has been designing and writing software for
IJW since 1998 and is very passionate about his work.
