Twitter at the speed of parenting
Lots of interesting discussion around this. It seems like the underlying question is, “can you handle work stress or money stress more easily?” (thread)https://twitter.com/marthakelly/status/1125536070852960256 …
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When money was tight, if you’d offered me a big raise with twice the extra job stress - I’d have taken it no questions asked. When can I start?? Because I handle job stress waaaaay better than I handle money stress. Not coincidentally, I’m better at my job than I am at money.
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But stress seems to come out of the same well. It’s just that money stress draws two buckets where equivalent work stress will draw one. So if I can lower my money stress, it’s like I can take on 4x more stress at work, if that makes sense. That’s just how my brain works.
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I know the math doesn’t quite work out
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Anyway I’m sure there are people out there who are champs at handling money without feeling like a failure, but who for whatever reason have a super hard time with work stress. They are probably going to answer this question differently than I do
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The interesting part, for me, is that it’s really hard to imagine how that would work. Like...I literally can’t imagine what it would feel like to be good with money. It’s stressful to me even when I have enough of it. It’s horrifically stressful when I don’t have enough.
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I think you need to distinguish which kind of stress. I think it’s
@avantgame who talks about eustress from a project you like vs. distress. Money stress is almost always distress but work can be either. -
I’d be interested in delineating types of work stress also. I experience two kinds: the usual challenges of system development, but also the need to simultaneously protect it from powers of darkness in high places. The latter is where the vast majority of my energy goes.
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That's been my experience too. I find the stress of the "work" fine, sometimes even enjoyable. The stress of protecting the work or my position are super draining.
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