Tadeusz Pietraszek

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"Worriors" - worries outsourced

Everybody has worries, which stay in our minds. For example, Currently, I am worrying about at least a dozen of things (maybe Poles are a worrying nation, or it is just me, don’t know) and, you must admit, it’s hard to stay productive being occupied with worrying.

Hence, during our lunch discussion yesterday we came up with the idea of worriors, to whom you can outsource your worries. To be completely honest this idea came from My Outsourced Life, I think the notion of “worriors” is ours ;-)

The idea is to have a website, where you can submit your worries, which a professional worrior (human or automated) can worry about. You can log in and check what they are currently worrying about or maybe even sign up for a comforting e-mail:

Don’t worry.
We are currently worrying about <> for you.
Yours professional worriors”

This can also be a “worries outlet”: discussions, support groups and of course a great chance for advertising.

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3 Responses to “"Worriors" - worries outsourced”

  1. tadekp Says:
    January 25th, 2006 at 10:33 am

    My “top worries” today are:

    1. Tomorrow’s presentation at the univeristy.
    2. Completing my PhD.
    3. Project at work consuming too much of my attention.
    4. My inherent procrastination.

    My “past worries” were:

    1. Car breakage (I had feared would have been much more expensive, turned out not so bad)
    2. Parking ticket I got at the end of the day (ok, it’s only 40CHF, but was just to hit me at the end of the day).
  2. Annie Says:
    January 25th, 2006 at 10:59 am

    That’s a great idea! People can vote on worries and you can have “top worries of the week”, “worries by profession”, “worries newsletter”, “worries daily digest”. You can also have different categories of worrying, PhD worries, work worries, home worries, imagine the possibilities!

  3. Samantha Brooks Says:
    September 3rd, 2007 at 9:59 pm

    This is a great idea…. especially if you are like me, at the end of phd analysis and trying to remember how to write!!! I can barely write a shopping list…. phd worries definitely top of the list… c’mon worry warriers….. can you worry and procrastinate for me???!!!

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