Live on Edge

Ever wonder what causes some people to just snap? You know, the "going postal" type of coming into the workplace and shooting at anyone who moves type of snap! I never could understand why someone would be willing to purposely hurt others. I know, with the recent cell phone and driving rants, you'd think I was one of them.

But the sad fact is that to purposely hurt or kill someone, even if you believe they affected your work life is still not a good enough reason. A good enough reason to hurt someone is that they physically hurt my family. None of this, well, the company or boss DID hurt my family by me losing my job. Well, that doesn't cut it. Other jobs are available and even assuming the person was absolutely innocent, is that justification for murder? For a job? For a job that if they were there any length of time said more than once that they hated?

I think that we as a society have de-valued live so much that these type of events are becoming more common. With aborting children, killing old people, and letting a woman in Florida die of thirst and starvation, what do we expect?

Anxiety and depression are continuing to plague our country. The reasons are many but thinking people are having a difficult time keeping all the pieces together

Who thinks up these things... Anxiety is a Terrible thing to Waste

Who in the world thinks up these different languages to program computers? OK, I'm not a programmer but my Lord, last time I DID code anything was in G-Basic. Now it's all event driven, but this isn't the big thing here.

Oh NO

Let's get everyone to learn HTML to post web pages THEM push PHP and MySQL connectivity. Now, we have div containers but no tables, CSS style sheets but no formatting tags.

So is it any wonder that the average age of burnout in the programmer software industry is under 40? Take about anxiety! Where are these people to get work if burnout is so prevalent so young?

Depression is anger turned inward

I was cruising to work today hating the fact that I had to go. Everyday, it's the same thing. Get up, get ready for work, convince myself to walk out the door, drive 35 freaking miles 1 way while dodging idiots who think they can drive also attempt to drive while on their cell phone. All the while I'm trying to convince myself that work isn't to bad.
Don't get me wrong, I AM grateful for a job that let's my family have a house and food on the table. Still, the giant sucking sound of all my creativity and drive when I walk thru that door is deafening.

So I'm minding my own business and this psychologist and talk show host on the radio starts talking about how depression is anger turned inward. They talk about how women are more prone to depression because they deal with things by keeping them inside while men are more likely to get enraged.

Ok, I've been fighting depression for years and have no anger. Frustration yes, a tough workplace, yes, stupid people driving while using their cell phone, you bet. But angry? I don't think so. This must make me an outlier outside the normal curve.

Here's what DOES make me angry though. I passed a guy going 40 miles an hour in the slow lane of the freeway with his left turn signal on, two little dogs on his lap AND talking on the phone! The rest of traffic was going 65-70 and this idiot actually was giving people dirty looks as they passed him.

Where's a policeman when you need them!