As I had mentioned previously, this year, I’m going back to school. Not to take classes, but to teach a course at my alma mater, Fanshawe College. I did this about a decade ago and thought it was interesting, so I was excited to give it another go. Additionally, after a friend mentioned that their kid wanted to learn Python, I developed an Intro to Python aimed at high school students that I’m teaching weekly. I thought that this would be good fodder for the State of Security. So, whenever I have something interesting to discuss, expect to find it here.

I was talking to my students about crunch time during one of our recent classes. They are in their final semester of school and were forced into online learning at the start of the pandemic. They are stressed. I get that a lot of people are stressed, but there are different stresses for different people and right now a lot of empathy is required to understand what is going on with people. I can hear the stress in the voices of my students when we speak and read it in their emails and chat messages. I’m not a psychologist, but I know that different people have different breaking points and we’re all just dams waiting to burst from the pressure of the stress we’re containing. So, ask yourself… can I turn a valve and alleviate some of that pressure?

Stressors

Stressors come in all shapes and sizes. Yet, the list just seems to keep growing. Pre-pandemic you stressed over finances, health, career choices, relationships… all the standard stuff. The pandemic added so many more stressors to those categories. Can my business survive a lockdown? Can my employer afford to keep me working? What do I do when I (Read more...)