Dealing with stress from work.

DC kinda hit the ball.

When i first finished my college program, I took a job working as a Tech at Dell, just to try and build up some funds for my certifications. It wasn't until about 5 weeks into training that i found out the job includes sales.. trying to sell DOC contracts and stuff.. and as i couldn't sell water to a man dying of thirst if my life depended on it, i knew things were not going to go well. I decided to try and toughen it out though, and I did for 6 months.

Eventually though I got into a rut. My shift was always 2-11pm, Thursday-Monday, so i lost a lot of my social life, and found myself always tired, to the point that i stopped going to the gym for awhile. I only managed to last even THAT long by basically not caring about whom i talked to on the phone anymore. In fact, I would always feel sick to my stomach when the time came to go to work. At that point i basically started making demands , like better hours or at least a weekend day off, something that would let me enjoy what time I had off. When they denied everything, i flat out quit, and the next day was back to my old self *btw, the average burnout time as a Dell tech is 3-4 months, they have to constantly hire new tech's*. I went out, got a job working as a commissionaire for DND while writing my certs and looking for a job more up my alley *networking/telecommunications*. While the job wasn't my area of expertise, it was laid back and stress free, and i didn't even mind going in to work extra hours , where as with dell i was gone at 11pm on the dot, and never looked back.

Happy to say now though that I am now working as a Network security engineer and loving it. I have worked for 15 hours straight at this job and back the next day ready and prompt. Makes a Huge difference when you enjoy the job, the money, and the company.

Back on topic though, I was able to put up with dell as long as I did by putting the job out of my mind the second I left for the day. I would also read when possible, and treat myself to an Ice Java after a long, stressful day.

Jam it back in, in the dark.