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How do you cope with stress in IT?

I work in a fast pace IT workplace. I'm a UNIX admin for several hundred trading systems, we're essentially a stock exchange. We deal with hundreds of millions of pounds a day, 4 second downtime could cost a few million easily. My colleague is out for 2 weeks vacation so it's down to me to keep our European operations running. When there's two of us it's great as we can fall on each other for...

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