I’ve always tried to focus on the important stuff like planning for a child’s birthday or my tax returns.
The struggle is handling things that are just constantly in your face. Mainly other people’s agenda, issues or crisis.
I sit here like a stress sponge constantly soaking up unbearable anxiety and grieve.
For private technical requests, I use a help desk system to ease the stress.
This has the bonus benefit or resolving the issue faster and focuses in on the precise issue. Most times the end-user just wants to vent to a human.
Could I switch career at this stage? Someone floated the idea to me last week. It’s risky but hard to avoid InfoSec right now and quite frankly I don’t want to do anything else.
My chess game has deteriorated below 800 Elo right now. I simply cannot concentrate.
Booking up London flights for May, June and August in a couple of weeks.