What gives you the most anxiety?

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[Andrew Avery]

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[The Sword Breaker]

Being Right About Something And Not Getting Appericated

[Riya Adhikari]

Unexpected pings from team members who I know always come to me with problems without doing their due-diligence. I know this sounds funny but this was becoming an issue. It got to the point where switching context from their discussion back to my work was causing me anxiety. Thankfully i have manager who understands all this and he made it a point that unless somebody needs very urgent help from another team member, they're only supposed to ping us during a certain time slot of the dev's choosing.

[Manik Malhotra]

I feel really anxious when I code or even study programming before sleep.
My mind stays unstable over night nd it feels so tired when i wakeup in morning. Some what depressed sometimes.
But thats the time I get to learn and code new things, after my office hours.
Sometimes it goes for few days without proper sleep.

[Mark Andrew-Ronald Kimitch, MASc 💻🐒]

Technical interviews... 😱

[SJellen]

For me its the idea that maybe I'm only a hobbyist.
I read posts about people applying for hundreds of jobs and when i search for jobs there are only a handful that look interesting. I'd much rather build something than spend more than 30 minutes looking over the same jobs that are posted over and over.
I have no doubt that I'll succeed but that's what makes anxiety so draining. It's your mind working against you.

[Andrew Baisden]

The whole job search process and wondering how many interview stages and how long you will have to wait for some job offers.

[Maulik]

As a developer, below mentioned reasons give me anxiety.

• not having family time
• getting the same kinda work and no self-development
• no motivation and recognition
• not allowed to take enough breaks
• no transparency of what is happening on the project or team I am working with

[Anzhari Purnomo]

Walking on a meeting where I know I’m gonna get chewed on. 💀

But most of the time I’m only overthinking the whole end of the world scenario in my head.

[sanidz]

anxiety

[Phippsy]

Overhearing the sales guy saying "Yeah - that will be available by the end of the week" to a prospect, when you know you're still at least a month out.

[Matthieu Cneude]

1. Not well estimated deadlines (which are 97% of the total of deadlines).
2. Functionalities which are possibly useless for the end user.
3. Working on a product which doesn't provide anything new / better than the concurrence, just trying to catch on what already exists.
4. Seeing bad decisions taken, being pretty explicit about them with good arguments, not being listened to 'cause I'm only a worker "producing" software, dealing with the bad consequences.
5. Micro-management and mistrust.
6. A company which sells a company culture totally different of the reality.
7. Being "Agile" meaning using a bunch of tools.
8. A startup doing everything like Google 'cause you know, it's Google.
9. Using micro-services as a magical spell, ending with distributed chaos.
10. Working in a waterfall environment which does Scrum.
11. Working in an ego driven environment where other services (or users) are stupid because developers are the best.
12. Not understanding that soft skills are more important than pure technical knowledge when you're working in a team.
13. Trying to fit somebody in a team to see if the candidate think like everybody else, and therefore killing diversity and collective intelligence.
14. Interviews with: random questions (a developer should know everything? Really?) which have nothing to do with the daily work, looking at the knowledge of somebody at time T even if this knowledge is obsolete in two months and, at the same time, not verifying if the person is able to adapt.
15. Having interviews where nobody bothered looking at the candidate's Github code, blog, or portfolio.

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Many more.

[btlm]

It's also a problem in Poland. There are many small local company owners (very often oldmen) who think making web apps is easy and fast. And they won't pay much because they don't find my work hard.

"You only sit and type on a keyboard and you want 20 € per hour?!" :D horrible.

[Matt Ellen]

Asking for help, especially if that involves a phone call.

[Quentin Caillaud]

Future. Shortness of life. Death.

(Yaay ! Party !)