My more prolific blogger colleague, Ian White appeared on television last week. As a harrassed IT consultant he was set the task, along with a teacher and a hospital doctor, to see if their job was a stressful as a chef in a top restuarant. So how did he do?
Well, TV turns us all into monkeys but Ian turned the tables when asked the question - Do you think your job is more stressfull than woking in the kitchen? He answered, there are two types of stress; time and intellectual. While our job in IT is often time related, the key stress is intellectual. i.e keeping up with what's going on in a rapidly changing and incresingly commoditised industry. From his level of contribution to this blog, Ian's intellectual stress is well managed; as WikiAnswers puts it: Asking questions and trying to answer questions is the best way of intellectual stress management.