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5 Tips To Prevent Stress in Your Software Development Career

Use these practices in any software engineering job to enjoy it as a hobby

Shalitha Suranga
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5 min readSep 16, 2021
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Programmers work with various sorts of software engineering jobs, and they have different daily routines and activities. But we all have several generic activities such as writing codes, debugging, testing, attending technical discussions, and writing documentation. Modern software development requires rapid feature implementations and deployments to fulfill market needs. Therefore, programmers often have to work on closer deadlines. Also, programmers have to work on hard-to-reproduce type bugs within a short amount of time.

Programmers often feel stressed due to these unavoidable situations in their software engineering careers. Stress is not a new thing. It’s part of everyone’s life, but it can be well-managed and also prevented in several ways.

In this story, I will explain several practical tips to practice to avoid stressful situations in your software engineering career. I am still enjoying my software engineering career after five years, thanks to the following habits.

1. Don’t Try To Write Perfect Code

Are you worried about the piece of code you wrote yesterday because of its quality…

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Shalitha Suranga
Shalitha Suranga

Written by Shalitha Suranga

Programmer | Author of Neutralinojs | Technical Writer

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