A coping mechanism I have is to work from home. Tracking time in-the-moment (as opposed to waiting until the end of the day) also helps. And having a boss tha

A coping mechanism I have is to work from home. Tracking time in-the-moment (as opposed to waiting until the end of the day) also helps. And having a boss that's been a programmer and is aware of how context switching can hurt productivity. Context switching bleeds time from the main tasks I'm assigned to. If I'm not tracking my time precisely, making a summary at the end of the day, I'll wonder how I was so unproductive in the span of the day for the given task. If I measure it in the moment, I'll see all the little interactions that stopped me. This developer asking me a question. QA asking me to look in something that requires investigation. A little fire to put out over here. Things that are too short and resolved to remember.