“under serious risk of illness due to over stress”
A good friend of mine, JD, when he heard that I was quitting my job said “Are you trying to collect life stressors?!”
Good point. In the past year I think I’ve gone through 4 of the top 10 or so life stressors.
The helpful folk at medindia.net have a handy calculator on which you can put a check mark next to all the various “life stressors” that you may have had the pleasure of experiencing in the past 2 years.
Me, I think I’ve checked off 10 or so of the 40 items on that list. Granted, some of them were gimmes … as in Holidays and “Diwali, ID, Christmas” which occur with freakish regularity … about twice every 2 years, by my calculation. Though I’m not sure what “Diwali and/or ID” are, I checked them off anyway.
The one that’s plaguing me right now (as in 8:45 this morning) is the “Change in responsibility at work”/”Change to a different line of work”/”Fired at work” trinity. A few weeks ago I quit my job with evil empire #2 (for me anyway), took a 3 weeks loafing vacation, and today I start my new job with evil empire #3.
Well, I don’t think it’s really evil, quite the opposite. But the people I met during my loops were preternaturally proud/excited/gung-ho about working there. More so that at any other large, globally dominant, hegemonic, corporate empire I’ve worked at. I’ve always had a bit of a jaded/pessimistic mindset when working at these large tech companies. It should be interesting to work in a place where everyone’s really drinking the kool-aid. I’m actually looking forward to taking a few sips of the juice myself.
Oh, back to the life stressors… after checking off all the appropriate calamities my results came back as “under serious risk of illness due to over stress”. Great.
Luckily for me I have the hardy immune system of a 3rd Worlder. Growing up in less than antiseptic conditions has it bonuses.
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