• Question: Is there anything at your work that stresses you out

    Asked by anon-257320 to Hannah on 26 Jun 2020.
    • Photo: Hannah Im

      Hannah Im answered on 26 Jun 2020: last edited 26 Jun 2020 9:34 pm

      Not knowing what I’m doing – sometimes, we have to make decisions without having enough information to know whether what we are doing is the right thing to do. For example, right now, we are going through a reorganization, and we don’t know what the company will look like when it’s all finished, but we need to design a process for the everyone to follow before the reorganization is done. So we have no idea how successful our new process will be, but we have to trust our skills and our people to do the right thing when the time comes. Sometimes we fail, but we embrace failure too because it eliminates what doesn’t work so that we have a better idea of what might work. So the lesson is – don’t be afraid to fail – go for it and learn from it and then do it again!

Comments

  • Photo: Katy

    Katy commented on :

    Sometimes we work on a lot of different projects at the same time so it can be stressful trying to prioritise lots of different things for different people.

  • stevethomas commented on :

    For me it’s having multiple competing demands for my time – lots of tasks to do at the same time, and then something unexpected comes along and takes the priority so none of them gets done! With so many ways to talk to people, there’s an expectation that I can drop everything and respond to the latest request straight away. So the urgent and the important get muddled up, and the important stuff is harder to get done. I try to set aside time to do key things, but of course it doesn’t always work…

  • Photo: Freya

    Freya commented on :

    Yes. Working on a piece of code for years and then getting stuck on something for weeks on end can be frustrating. Out in the field, it can be stressful when setting things up for the first time and working through problems in a different environment, particularly when things go wrong. But problem-solving is part of the reason I really enjoy it. The fieldwork thus far has always been worthwhile. Some weeks I can be really busy and there is just no stopping but then I have some weeks which are more relaxed. Either way, it’s important to have a work/life balance and making sure that the stress isn’t the overwhelming feeling from work.