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Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain

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Re: Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain

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Post by nradov »

Buttons840 wrote: post #96
aspbee555 wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the owner instructed everyone not to talk to me, I found out years later if it was a me problem then they would not have let the then president of the company go for working with me I was not the one with communication problems but people are really good at blaming me for their own problems

That is the same problem I had in my most stressful position. I was working for a consulting company: The first project I worked on was great, some of the most enjoyable work I've done at a company. Then the second project came (same company, same client). Things weren't going so well, so I started talking about the problems that everyone was having, and started talking about how we could fix the problems... ... and…

As a consultant there's no point in being so personally involved in the project outcome that you let it impact your health. Follow management orders, do the best work you can, and let the chips fall where they may. Whether the project succeeds or fails, you'll get paid either way and eventually you'll get reassigned to another client.

Re: Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain

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Post by aspbee555 »

mdavid626 wrote: post #139
aspbee555 wrote: post #34

I felt like I was dying at 35 years old, my body was completely betraying me, exhausted, constant pain, no life as absolutely no energy on days off and still exhausted starting the next week. Even years in the Army never left me feeling like that I had no idea it was the misery of the IT job that was causing most of my pain and suffering, and it had nothing to do with the job itself, it was the endless insanity of ev…

Can you tell us how you recovered?

overall it took time away from all that to recover, I also changed careers for a while to more fulfilling part time work

I have always had a passion for computing so I eventually found my way back with a project of my own

Re: Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain

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Post by aspbee555 »

foobiekr wrote: post #97
aspbee555 wrote: post #34

I felt like I was dying at 35 years old, my body was completely betraying me, exhausted, constant pain, no life as absolutely no energy on days off and still exhausted starting the next week. Even years in the Army never left me feeling like that I had no idea it was the misery of the IT job that was causing most of my pain and suffering, and it had nothing to do with the job itself, it was the endless insanity of ev…

What do you do for a living post-escaping the IT career?

I did part time work as a mentor which was way more fulfilling than the IT work. I eventually found my way back to programming my own project

Re: Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain

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Post by vjk800 »

PixelForg wrote: post #54
mattgreenrocks wrote: post #22

I’ve been dealing with chronic reflux for about 8 mos now. On PPIs and they don’t seem to do much. But once I get away from my typical routine of work/dadding then all the symptoms vanish, even to the point of being able to eat foods that are not good for reflux: spicy things, tomatoes, a bit of coffee. In my case, this is absolutely a downstream symptom of something mind-body. Already been scoped and got a diagnosis…

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9550520/ This exercise fixed it for me. I was diagnosed with GERD last year, I already had it for 2-3 years before that, but it got worse last year. I got ppis for a couple of months and when I finished all of them it came back worse. Fortunately I found this article, and I started doing the exercise daily morning after I woke up(and still do it). I can now eat tomatoes, food…

How did you implement this? I can't figure out what these instructions in the article mean: "Exercises of dry swallowing in the bridge posture lasted for 4 weeks and were performed ten times per day (Fig. 2). The exercise was performed with 10-s intervals between swallows."

Does this mean that total number of daily dry swallows in bridge position was 10 or 10 times 10 (100)?

Re: Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain

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Post by aspbee555 »

Buttons840 wrote: post #96
aspbee555 wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the owner instructed everyone not to talk to me, I found out years later if it was a me problem then they would not have let the then president of the company go for working with me I was not the one with communication problems but people are really good at blaming me for their own problems

That is the same problem I had in my most stressful position. I was working for a consulting company: The first project I worked on was great, some of the most enjoyable work I've done at a company. Then the second project came (same company, same client). Things weren't going so well, so I started talking about the problems that everyone was having, and started talking about how we could fix the problems... ... and…

overall I felt my biggest mistake was believing that I would be fired/let go if there was ever a problem with my work

I never realized there was such malicious people out there incapable of basic professional respect and tell me to f-off

Re: Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain

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Post by aspbee555 »

roarcher wrote: post #148
jdbsbsndn wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

What a bizarre and unnecessary comment.

I have to admit it annoyed me for a moment, but it is an honest thing I have to have ask myself as part of my analysis of a situation, ie. AITA, in this instance, not at all

Re: Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain

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Post by reactordev »

aspbee555 wrote: post #153
mdavid626 wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you tell us how you recovered?

overall it took time away from all that to recover, I also changed careers for a while to more fulfilling part time work I have always had a passion for computing so I eventually found my way back with a project of my own

Sometimes it requires taking a step back to move forward. Healing takes time. There’s so many odd jobs, side hustles, or simply - working a no-brainer warehouse job, for you to find yourself again.

Re: Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain

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Post by noident »

doddpronter wrote: post #90

It's crazy how much your physical health is tied to mental happiness/lack of stress. I had a friend that during his most stressful period as a 24 year old in Investment Banking had strep throat 4 times in 2 months. Several doctor visits concluded that it was the long hours and insane amount of stress that was severely crushing his immune system. Moral of the story is love what you do and take care of yourself: nothin…

> I had a friend that during his most stressful period as a 24 year old in Investment Banking had strep throat 4 times in 2 months

He may need his tonsils out. I got mine out in my 30s. It was 3 painful weeks to recover but my quality of life is a lot higher.

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