Excel dreams

Anyone else have them?

Anytime I spend a long day working on a model in excel I wind up trying to continue my work when I try to go to sleep at night, needless to say it seriously impedes my rest. Sometimes I'm in a half sleep trying to fix an impossible excel problem and can't go to sleep until its done.

Anyone have any tips or should I check in to the closest mental hospital?

 

Institution not required, but do seek out someone who can help... Maybe some hypnotherapy, or some quick but intense exercise then a shower, followed by herbal tea...

Dont be too freaked by it, plenty of people in the sciences/maths research and traders have work-related sleep disorders. Sort it out though.

 
newbie2banking:
Institution not required, but do seek out someone who can help... Maybe some hypnotherapy, or some quick but intense exercise then a shower, followed by herbal tea...

Dont be too freaked by it, plenty of people in the sciences/maths research and traders have work-related sleep disorders. Sort it out though.

If you're lucky your hypnotherapist will... not be able to continue his services, for whatever reason, and you'll walk around all day humming "damn its good to be a gangster."

 

In my first year or so of working I would consistently have really lame dreams that generally involved Excel or whatever else I had been intently working on. Over time I think I just started becoming more confident in the work that I was doing and really just started worrying a lot less about my work (I wouldn't go so far as to say I became apathetic, but I really don't let last-minute model changes or other fire-drill issues get to me any more - I think you just become desensitized to it).

 

Once when I worked on a ridiculously stressful bake off, I had dreams that this brute of an MD was tracking me down, calling and calling, asking about some change i didnt make in the doc, just wouldn't leave me alone. Result - woke up in a cold sweat! Needless to say this was the sleep I gathered from going in a meeting room in between my triple all nighter, so was not in the best of places, but pretty messed up nonetheless.

As smuguy alluded to, once you become more sure of yourself and confident in your work, it'll pass. Failing that, exhaustion will set in.

 
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AllDay_028:

That included Brady having a breakdown because he still couldnt get into Harvard. And then me getting my certified user status revoked and being really upset about it.

Signs my life is pathetic? I think so.

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AllDay_028:

That included Brady having a breakdown because he still couldnt get into Harvard. And then me getting my certified user status revoked and being really upset about it.
Signs my life is pathetic? I think so.

good to hear our secret method of controlling your subconscious thoughts is working...just web 4.0 basics.

Trying to scare me into being a better poster with the certified user bit. Next step, world domination (if that isn't already kind of happening, actually).
 
AllDay_028:

That included Brady having a breakdown because he still couldnt get into Harvard. And then me getting my certified user status revoked and being really upset about it.

Signs my life is pathetic? I think so.

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AllDay_028:

That included Brady having a breakdown because he still couldnt get into Harvard. And then me getting my certified user status revoked and being really upset about it.
Signs my life is pathetic? I think so.

Come back and tell us when you have a WSO wet dream

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AllDay_028:

That included Brady having a breakdown because he still couldnt get into Harvard. And then me getting my certified user status revoked and being really upset about it.

Signs my life is pathetic? I think so.

Laughing my ass off, great way to start off my WSO day

"You stop being an asshole when it sucks to be you." -IlliniProgrammer "Your grammar made me wish I'd been aborted." -happypantsmcgee
 

I also had a dream where my certified user status was revoked...then I woke up and it came true!

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