I work as a systems librarian. That means that I am trained as a librarian and manage a system for 5 academic libraries.
In this system, sometimes things get stuck. A student puts an entry in the system that is too open-ended and the system tries with all its might to process it, unfortunately the system doesn't know when to quit and it ends up using all of the server's CPU just to answer that question - which is impossible to answer.
I'm like that, I can't quit, I can't let things go, I get too obsessive.
This year I'd like to find the equivalent on an SQL script that forces my brain to STOP before all the CPU gets drained...
How do other people deal with stress and make themselves stop?
