Programmers work with various kinds of software engineering jobs, and they have different daily routines and activities.   Modern software development requires rapid feature implementations and deployments to fulfill market needs. Also, programmers have to work on hard-to-reproduce type bugs within a short amount of time.

Programmers often feel stressed due to these unavoidable situations in their software engineering careers. Stress is not a new thing. It's part of everyone's life, but it can be well-managed and also prevented in several ways.

I will explain several practical tips to practice to avoid stressful situations in your software engineering career.

1. Do Some Light Stretching
Stretching can be an effective strategy for preventing and alleviating stress. One way that it does so is by lengthening the muscles to relieve tension. Most of us experience a good deal of stress in our daily lives, especially us software developers during coding time.  

2. Play Your Favorite Video Games
Video games are engaging and enjoyable, which reduces stress. Video games present a challenge and reward you for overcoming it, which leads to feelings of competence. Gaming can create a flow state, which is similar to meditation. Video games give you instant rewards, which help to reduce the stress of achieving long term goals.

3. Explore Nature
Being in nature, or even viewing scenes of nature, reduces anger, fear, and stress and increases pleasant feelings. Exposure to nature not only makes you feel better emotionally, it contributes to your physical wellbeing, reducing blood pressure, heart rate, muscle tension, and the production of stress hormones. It may even reduce mortality, according to scientists such as public health researchers.

4. Eat Your Favourite Snacks
Most of time developers continuously write codes and feel stressful, so this time take a break and eat a favourite snacks or stress relief food. While there are many ways to cope with stress, one strategy is to eat stress-fighting foods. Like Chocolate, nuts, yogurt, fatty fish, banana, carrots etc.

5. Read A Book That Inspires You
Research has shown that reading fiction is more effective at reducing stress than listening to music, sipping tea, and taking a walk. In fact, stress levels were shown to be reduced by 68 percent after reading. While your brain is engaged in the story, your heart rate slows down and muscles relax. Because there is so much work for your brain to do, reading is a very effective way to focus your energy and improve your concentration.