Sep 26 2007

Work Stress

Posted by Chris in Chris
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I know I have not been the most religious about posting lately and I am sorry. Unfortunately I have been dealing with a lot of stressful situations at work, but this is really not an excuse for me to neglect my blog. No, the situations at work have nothing to do with me being gay, and no I am not losing my job, but there are a lot of changes occurring.

However, these situations are seriously killing my social life. And this is causing me to become depressed and lose the motivation to blog. The major cause of this is my company has decided to close our Indianapolis office. Now this news is not as bad as it sounds as the company is not letting anyone from the office go. Instead the company is going to force us to work from home. I think this it is pretty obvious how this is killing my social life. Working from home and maintaining a social life will be difficult for me, I am not the most outgoing person. Therefore meeting enough people to keep me in contact and socializing with people most nights a week will be difficult.

Yes, I said there was more than one thing at work causing my depression. The second issue I am facing is I have only been with the company 3 months and only graduated college 4 months ago; however, on my current project I am the de facto senior developer. Yes, there are more experienced people on the project but I have become the go to guy and the person revealing all of the issues we are encountering on the project along with proposing the solutions. At my experience level this is extremely stressful as some of the issues I am encountering are deal breakers and I have to convince more senior people of the magnitude of these issues and then offer the solution. This means more hours, which mean less personal time, hence less social life.

Anyway, I don’t know why I wrote this or what point I was trying to make or why I feel the need to keep writing so I guess I just need to post this and be done with it.

One Response to “Work Stress”

  1. skye Says:

    I work from home once in awhile, but I couldn’t take doing it full time. I have to have the human interactions. It sounds like you have a career that should be not too difficult to find a job with another company. I would definitely jump ship.

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