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Around this time last year I wrote a post about my first 365 days as a hardware engineer. This year, I've tried to sum things up from a more general point of view: As the number of years one spends in a career increases, the probability that a serious occurance becomes comical also increases.

To cope with the insanity of the working world, I've devised this simple three step strategy:

1. Keep a stressball in the area where you spend most of your time. If you are stressed then squeeze it. If not, set it somewhere where it will look like it's on display. Coworkers will avoid you because you look like the postal type.
2. If more than one person is responsible for answering phones within a room, quietly challenge a neighbor to a match of rocks-pape (w). The one that loses must pick up the next call.
3. Eat a regular morning snack. This should happen every day about 2/3 of the way through the morning. A pack of crackers or granola bar, for example, will tide most over till lunch. This breaks up the morning, and creates the illusion of lunch arriving sooner. To further intensify the illusion, items with a quanity (crackers, m&ms, pez) should be consumed one at time, while recalculating the time until lunch after each portion. The remaining number of food subitems should then be evenly consumed across the calculated time interval.

Oh yeah - hobbies also help the sanity thing.

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