• Question: is it ever stressful

    Asked by 643cdge52 to Conor, Frederik, Ilaria, Jeffrey, Sarah on 29 Feb 2016.
    • Photo: Frederik Gossen

      Frederik Gossen answered on 29 Feb 2016:

      I guess in almost every job you will experience situations that are stressful. Fortunately it does not happen too often for me 🙂
      Don’t be afraid of stressful situations.

    • Photo: Sarah Doran

      Sarah Doran answered on 29 Feb 2016:

      Heya,

      It can be stressful sometimes when something unexpected happens… like the customer finds a problem with something you’ve developed (uh oh!) and they can get pretty upset! However, once you investigate why it went wrong and let them know when it will be fixed they are usually cool about it. I think that happens in every job!

      I try to be as prepared as I can for important meetings so I don’t feel stressed. Its like if you have a test as school and you spend hours studying you wont feel too stressed but if you only spend 5 minutes studying its probably a lot more stressful cos you’re not sure what to expect!!

    • Photo: Ilaria Cinelli

      Ilaria Cinelli answered on 1 Mar 2016:

      It can be stressful when you have lots of deadlines, teaching and travels to do. However you learn to manage the stress as in school!! When you learn it, everything is great and you start to enjoy your work, like I do!! 😀

    • Photo: Jeffrey Roe

      Jeffrey Roe answered on 2 Mar 2016:

      It can be just like anything else. You can get stressed when a bug is found, a client is upset over something or you are just behind on a project.
      The most important thing to know is how to deal with it. The first step is to rely on your team. It’s never just your problem but a problem for the whole team which lowers the stress of it.

    • Photo: Conor McGinn

      Conor McGinn answered on 4 Mar 2016:

      Yea in my job there’s stress on a few levels. Because student exam results are published on a certain date, there’s alot of pressure to get papers corrected on time etc. This can be really stressful especially if you have lots of things on at that time of year.
      I often compete robot’s at competitions. This can be really stressful because oftentimes you need to get lots of work done in only a few hours. I have had many all nighters preparing robot’s for competitions/events etc.
      Personally I often feel alot of pressure with work. In my opinion I work with some of the best young minds in the country. Many of them work on my projects for free so it’s important to me that there hard work and effort is rewarded. Are ambitious and see an opportunity to make a name for themselves by working on my projects. Therefore if I/we get things wrong (and we often do) then I feel that in a way I let them down.

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