Comments on: When Your DBA Job Sucks: The Phases of Burnout

By: thierry

thierry — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:53:41 +0000

wow… right on the spot. Thx for the suggestions

By: Edwin Sarmiento

Edwin Sarmiento — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 03:20:12 +0000

I like the idea of smiling at people. Adding on to that, just SMILE – even when you’re not around people. Have you ever tried smiling while trying to figure out that TSQL code responsible for bloating up your tempdb or your transaction log file? Smiling changes our perspective when we do something. Even studies show that smiling increases the quality of customer service and increases revenue (think of increase in revenue as increase in salary.) I blogged about the effects of smiling on the job event when you think you’re very efficient http://wp.me/p1GJXV-u

By: Tracy McKibben

Tracy McKibben — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:28:51 +0000

I’ve been languishing somewhere between steps 4 and 5 for the past three months. I very nearly walked away at the end of August, the letter was signed and presented. With a little help from my manager, we’re trying to move to step 6.

By: Gail

Gail — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:15:30 +0000

Been there, done that, partially recovered, went there again, recovered partially, went there again, etc.

http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2010/12/09/on-burnout-and-recovery/

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Something for the Weekend - SQL Server Links 14/09/12 — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:56:43 +0000

[...] When Your DBA Job Sucks: The Phases of Burnout - Wow, this was like reading my own story in parts and I bet you can say the same to. A truly excellent post from Kendra Little (Blog|Twitter). [...]

By: Swarn Singh

Swarn Singh — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 08:01:52 +0000

Brilliant article Kendra…spot on for most of DBA.
I see myself on Phase 1 where my job getting effected by politics and senior’s decisions. It is small company and IT Director is responsible of System, Network, Application and database teams. His back ground is Telephony and networking. Due to this, his decision & support impacting DB/Dev team’s daily work e.g.
1. PCI implementation on DB server without discussion and consult DBA
2. Stop access rights on DB/Apps Production Server without discussion with DBA/Dev teams
3. Application and DB ports info missing before system migration to another data center by system/network team and blame DB/Dev team that they should have told us.
4. any more…

Pls advise what should I do?…start looking for another job?
You see job is great as love to work with databases..

By: Kendra Little

Kendra Little — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:59:27 +0000

LOL– I’ve been there. I know what you mean, it’s just not the only way out!

By: Kendra Little

Kendra Little — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:59:05 +0000

Almost all of the things I’ve done to bring back that lovin’ feelin’ with a job are listed in the article. My problem historically was getting bogged down in the day-to-day and losing track of the big picture, and these are all steps that would help get me out of that rut.

By: Kendra Little

Kendra Little — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:10:10 +0000

We are all about the bonuses

By: Dan Holmes

Dan Holmes — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:01:57 +0000

Nice application of the ‘Stages of Grief’ with a bonus 6th stage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model