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Should I leave my current job during this time of pandemic?

PenAndPapers — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 01:06:57 +0000

I have been a developer in my current company for 6yrs. and during my stay here I've learned a lot not just in web development but also in life. I enjoyed working with wonderful and amazing people/team in a great environment with great culture where I feel I'm comfortable, valued and salary is good too.

But since the start of 2nd quarter of this year everything changes because of the new management and new clients. Most of new project that we've handled we don't have much information about it and clients are hard to chase and doesn't give much details when we ask. So were just shooting in the dark. Clients also demands more and during the development lot's of changes made and new features added that are out of the project scope and we have to adjust again and that makes the project to go over budget.

I started to feel burnouts, lack of motivation going to work, stress. Still tried my very best to do each task that I was assigned and meet my deadlines but each day it gets harder and harder for me and the whole team.

Just this past 5 months some of our team members resigned because of

burnouts
stress
lack of motivations
lack of career development
team don't get much appreciation about accomplishments

So my question is should I leave my current job and start to learn new things and improve my skills?

I have saved enough money to pay my rent and other bills like insurance, internet, food until the end of this year. But it keeps me worried that I will not have job and income.

Apologies for my bad English.

Thanks, keep safe and God Bless! :)

Living alone, how do you cope up with anxiety, depression and stress from work or from the current events?

PenAndPapers — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:34:18 +0000

A few days ago my roommate just moved back to their province and I'm the only one left now. I'm used to living alone but not in this kind of situation where I'm limited on things that I can do like going outside to unwind or go to the mall, eat in a restaurant, see some of my friend, play outdoor sports.

Lately I find my self having hard time going to sleep at night, I'm having panic attacks which I didn't experienced before, worrying about things, getting sick and hard to focus at work. I'm worried that this can affect my performance in my current job.

Any advice on how to cope up in this kind of situation? Thank you keep safe and God Bless!

Hello Dev.to

PenAndPapers — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 14:15:23 +0000

Hello! I'm Steven a frontend developer.It's been a week since I started using dev.to app and I find a lot of great and interesting articles here. I've learned some tricks also that I didnt know before. Hopefully I can share something here too from my experience and things that I know.