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I was a dev turned SRE in one point in my life. Man, the anxiety basically ruined my life. I could see I became very hyper person checking my phone all the time
by debarshri 5y ago
I was a dev turned SRE in one point in my life. Man, the anxiety basically ruined my life. I could see I became very hyper person checking my phone all the time, to the point that it impacted my relationship at that point. If you are inheriting a bad project or service without lot of automated remediations, or processes, paired with a toxic work environment, just don't. No one prepares you for the anxiety the role brings itself with. In the end you would realise the work and 2x-3x rate per hour is probably not worth it. I have seen people getting burned out. You have to have tools and certain processes in place for an SRE/on-call duties. Also, slack notification on phone are actually the worst as brain always thinks that got a message for some reason when you keep your phone in your pocket. Just my opinion.
- rr808 5y agoYeah if it gets too full on it fries your nerves, it also ruined my concentration. When I went back to pure dev I couldn't sit and work because I always was waiting for some alert to go off.
- debarshri 5y agoMeditating helped me regain my focus so far.
- SketchySeaBeast 5y agoI find that I can only work on any sort of focus work in the evenings because I know I'll get less alerts.
- Aperocky 5y agoWait there's no rotations and have to do dev work while oncall?
- mynameisash 5y agoI never had it too bad with being on-call, but my previous team did a piss-poor job of onboarding engineers, writing TSGs, and paying down tech debt. One rotation, I got paged at like 3am and again a few hours later. Bizarrely, it totally messed up my ability to be in the moment with my family for the whole weekend. And I developed this sort of 'anxiety' every time my phone rang. My stock ringtone never felt harsh before, but the instant my phone started ringing, I could feel my heart pounding. Would this be the call that would finally be more than I could handle? Even after I was done with my rotation, I just got so agitated any time my phone rang. I switched my ringtone to the Mr. Roger's Neighborhood theme, and I left that team (for other reasons). I'm a much happier person at work and at home now.