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Dealing with sysadmin anxiety

From DevOpsDays NYC, an interesting presentation was given on anxiety working in IT operations. Given the stress of the job, the goal of the talk was to explain anxiety, identify sources of stress such as ongoing education and being oncall, and ways to minimize anxiety including blameless postmortems, checklists, on-call partners, and more. The last section of the talk gets into how to help somebody with anxiety in IT.

You can view the slides that go along with the talk here: http://www.slideshare.net/jlintz/devopsdays-2015-talk-2