Cracking The Code: Tackling Emotional Challenges In Software Engineering
We’re not immune from them, we just keep them all well hidden inside.
Upon first seeing the title of this article you may think, well, where do you start as pretty much everyone toiling away in the Grand Game is submerged in one kind of emotionally difficult situation or another, at least stereotypically.
Yes, of course I’m making light of it as that’s generally how we cope with things over here. Humo[u]r is our best friend, catharsis through cynicism, absolution through passive aggressiveness.
Just why do you think I write all these articles about software engineering anyway?
We just don’t tend to advertise the fact that sometimes there are situations that really can make us very miserable indeed. We keep that stuff on the inside, we don’t generally ask for help, and we very definitely don’t volunteer anything incriminating or that may be used in evidence against us during a subsequent performance review to HR either.
We are but islands in a roiling sea of despair, or it can seem like that sometimes, with everything from an initial haphazard and traumatic interview process, a bait and switch job offer, the ever present lack of actual communication within organisations, the frequent megalomania and micromanagement…
