Been in corporate for about 1.3 years, wfh, facing work related anxiety. Everyday feels like a silent war. Taking deep breaths in between breaks has become a habit.
My question is, does it get better or worse?
How to manage this?
Culture shock is normal. From the free safe world of college life, moving into corporate environment is a big change. Give some time, you will get used to it.
Your manager will probably remind you how "difficult" times are, and how the company has now moved to "perform" or "perish" culture. Its all bull shit. he/she is just parroting what was told to him/her.
If I miss my daily morning meditation my day just goes significantly more stressful, angry and feels rushed
I have a different take on this.
There are 2 potential reasons for this and you'd have to be brutally honest with yourself for this:
Are you incompetent for your present role? Do you need to upskill to crush expectations?
Easy proxy: doing regular stuff expected from you takes a lot of time
Are you reporting to unreasonable people? Does your boss or other stakeholders make your life hell due to their unstructured work life?
Easy proxy: how much of your time goes in firefighting caused by their whimsical nature?
If it's 1, either upskill or leave. Life will continue to be tough.
If it's 2, change and see other workplaces. If this continues, probably expectation-reality mismatch. If it continues, you're a misfit for Indian work culture.
Both points are well and decent but everyone has the guts to understand these things ? as I can see, one of my friends comes under the 1st scenario but as he has a 6+ year exp no one wants to compose by saying will guide you if you have prob in any kind of work
Not speaking to people is the biggest issue.
@EminentHunchback I too felt it. In the initial days I used to feel like an imposter and it exacerbated the issue more. But given some time everything settles as you learn more and more about your project!
You are at least working from home
Same here. 4 yrs WFH in corporate. If anything it will get worse.
Everyday the same feeling.
Yes, I have been in sw development for 10 years and used to work 12 to 14 hrs per day after lockdown been WFH for 5 years and started to get anxiety and depression and migraine, watery eyes. Have taken all mri, tests visited 10 doctors since symptoms used to vary.
Finalized as anixety and depression due to no socialize due to WFH and reduced physical activity and B12 and d3 deficiency.
Now getting better by doing meditation, deep breathing, tablets for deficiency, anixety and depression
Took a 30 days work break and my manager was very supportive since he understood it.
Wish you a speedy recovery, don't ignore it . Better work from office if your mates are coming too or doing Walking in morning instead just waking up and attending the stand up calls
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