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From bitter loss to sweet relief: baking as therapy
- benrbray 7y agoI can relate to this. I started cooking as a way to cope with the stress of grad school. It's a sense of instant gratification I don't get from research, and it really scratches the itch to make something with my own two hands.
- js2 7y agoEspecially as a programmer, making something physical is incredibly satisfying. Also, unlike my programs, the things I bake rarely have bugs.
- muraiki 7y agoI hope there are never bugs in the things you bake, unless you want some extra protein. :)
- epiphanitus 7y agoYou could start cooking with bugs. That way you're squashing bugs by day and cooking them by night.
- alexpotato 7y agoSimilar story: I used to support the technology side of an "old school" trading floor order management system. In that job, hitting the wrong key meant that Hong Kong might not come up for trading tomorrow. That constant level of "I need to think through all of my actions" was both fulfilling but also very draining at times. I remember shredding some carrots on a box grater one day while cooking and thinking: "The only place and person I need to consider if I do something wrong here is right here and only me". It was a very refreshing thought.
- compiler-guy 7y agoKneading bread is one of the greatest stress relievers there is. It's very tactile and you work out so much stress.