Four strategies for avoiding stress as a senior engineer

Work can be stressful, but using these four techniques can slow things down and help you make clearer decisions.

In an ideal world, there would be no need for any job to cause stress. Unfortunately in a world of distributed software teams, constant deadlines, meetings (often across time zones and continents), and demands of the business or your clients, stress is inevitable. That doesn’t mean it can’t be managed, dealt with, or reduced.

Every team at every company I have ever been on, whether that is in a senior lead role, or as a junior individual contributor, has had discussions about workload.

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