For the past few weeks, I have been thinking of having to ‘work-under-pressure’. Ever since I joined this project, it has been a high stress work. I was handling production support team offering 24 x 7 support for three crucial applications and that meant being vigilant all through. Time and again, there were enhancements added; and suddenly a full-fledged development project gets added to the plate. Worst of all, having a not-so-good management, who believes anything the client says as true and walk over their employees at will. Tough, but I throve. Very often, I entertained the thought of switching out of IT. But I concluded that with my personality, I will always attract such strenuous jobs.

In this year alone, first there was a Q1 (Quarter I) release, then arranging Remedy training with a limited budget, then a migration project and finally this development project. With all of these hectic activities, I guess, I have learnt intensely and added value to the organization. I want to take a break for a while, so I am getting out of here after this development project. But I am sure, in my next venture as well, it is going to be something like this. If it is not then I would do something that I always want to do – hobby programming, rambling of my travels and so on.

Not just me, there are few of my team mates, who thrive under pressure too. There is one guy who works the best under stress. Come relaxed period, troubles come because of him. But there are others who cannot just stand the pressure. In the past two months, four of the new recruits fled as they couldn’t withstand the pressure. I cannot blame them; there is life outside these four walls too!

Incidentally, I came across an article in New York times that articulates these same thoughts.