You know you're stressed with your job when: o You become amazingly productive on your personal projects o There are more days with multiple people escaping than without - and the people leaving are all of the clued ones. o You open a large bar of chocolate and a few minutes later you start to look for it, only to realise that you've already eaten it. o You think about the large Micro$oft campus being built in the city and start pondering about a job there as *anything* is better than what you're currently doing. o You start eyeing the hangman's noose hanging by the side of your desk longingly. o Goat herding in Outer Mongolia sounds a good career move o You wish to become a cat as they don't have to deal with politically inspired code changes involving kludges from hell. You could also curl up asleep on top of your monitor. o You start to realise that updating your CV and giving the BHeadHunterFH a call would be a good idea. o You start yearning for the cigarettes you gave up years ago o You are very focused and motivated. Unless you're doing something related to your job. In which case you're mind hops around like a demented grasshopper on speed. o You work out that you'd owe the company around $15,000 if you converted the share options to cash[1] o The only thing keeping you at the company is the routed network you have down the modem at home which can stay up 24/7 o You start writing a "You know you're stressed with you job" list instead of doing real work. o ..... and the list is *really* easy to write [1] You know, when you vest all of the options, sell them and then pay the cost of vesting the shares out of the profits.