i've been here before; it wasn't much fun

[seldear]

Work stress.

Nothing's happened yet, but I can feel it like a wave about to crash over me.

End of year and I have a problem on my plate that could be easy (if they're willing to accept possible ambiguity and fix the issues manually) or really really awful (if they need it to be absolutely correct).

One of the managers said something to me that's got me worried.

One of the people looking through CVs noted that I don't have any 'certification'.

We have performance appraisals in the next two weeks.

And I have a big holiday coming up in August.

I'm always nervous about big holidays thanks to my last permanent job, which made me redundant just before I went away on a month-long holiday to Europe in 2011. (That was a bad time, too: lost my job, my old cat died, lots of stress.)

Right now, my abiding thought in the midst of all this is: Thank God we didn't mortgage ourselves to the hilt.

*breathes carefully and without hyperventilating*

Comments

[sharim.livejournal.com]

I'm really hoping it's worry over nothing, and you can have a stress free holiday.

*hugs*

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I hope so, too!

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Is this 'certification' thing a big deal? Obviously you know what you're doing.

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

It looks good on CVs, and project managers will put their faith in twenty weeks of learning with formal qualifications over twenty years of experience without them.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my sister had to deal with that with a few jobs.