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No i have heard that the most stressfull job is a firefighter. Hmm fair enough…
OK i am an Internet Tech Person i would love to know where i fit in on the list … anyone got a link ?
OK …
No i have heard that the most stressfull job is a firefighter. Hmm fair enough…
OK i am an Internet Tech Person i would love to know where i fit in on the list … anyone got a link ?
Here are 3 different lists:
http://www.allstressedup.com/strsjobs.html
I’d have to say the most stressful job is being a King Crb Fisherman up in the Bering Sea. That profession is routinely rated as the most dangerous job on that planet, as at any moment one could be sloshed overboard and killed instantly in the slushy icey waters. I think they can only be fished in February and March also but not sure…
They do have survival suits also in case they fall over, but they don’t last indefinitely I don’t believe. I’d say thats pretty stress-inducing…
I’m the guy who has to put the little holiday outfits on the spitting cobras at the zoo. They really hate the reindeer antlers.
Being a miner is rather stressful.
I’m a labor and delivery nurse and if you don’t think that’s stress then you try to start an IV or two on a woman screaming she’s gonna die, save my baby, where’s my doctor!!?? I’d rather put a Santa hat on a pit viper any old day.
Cyn, okay, maybe you’ve got me beat. Especially since you’ve got that whole ‘miracle of life’ thing going for you.
Mrs. Winkle and I will be receiving the services of one of your comrades sometime in June. We’ll try not to be too stressful. Epidural for her, Valium for me, and we’re in business.
BTW at our zoo the pit vipers are the three wise men, they’re no problem. The Santa outfit goes on the Gila monster.
Baby dropped from building catcher
Working in a prison is stressful for pretty much every working moment.
Many other professions are stressful but over shorter periods of time.
Many people estimate high-stakes, “important” jobs as being very stressful. However, the incidence of stress-related diseases indicates that these people are not nearly as stressed as those who have no control over their lives and working conditions. Factory workers (hustled by production lines, and forced to get permission to go to the bathroom) are more stressed than their CEOs (who choose to wrok as hard as they do). Firefighters choose the dangers and stresses of their work; both they and salmon fishermen can at least maintain an illusion of control.
Stress, for most people, is the constant perception that there are no alternatives.
Some good answers here and in the linked lists. There’s just a few I’d like to add.
At the very height of the ‘troubles’ in Northern Ireland there were young British Army squaddies, maybe only 18 yrs old, patrolling the streets in Belfast at night. I can’t imagine many jobs more stressful than that for someone that age.
I’m glad one of the lists included being a teacher in an inner-city school. I do think that job must often be close to hell on Earth.
Mike Tyson’s sparring partner?
Can I submit two suggestions for least stressful job? I swear these are both true, and I’m not making them up.
I once did a lot of work for the Long Clawson Dairies Association, being the association of the only five dairies in the world which can produce Stilton Cheese (the king of all cheeses). As well as ‘pure’ Stilton they make prepackaged combination cheeses e.g. made up of ‘discs’ of Stilton and Red Leicester built up in layers or platters. There used to be a woman there whose job was to think up new combinations of cheeses to go with Stilton. If you want more, there isn’t any. That was her job.
But here’s the trump card. I know a professional artist and graphic designer. She used to do a lot of TV and movie work, in the days before modern prosthetics and digital effects. One job she often used to get was to carefully apply body paint and make-up to actresses to enhance their physique or natural assets.
“What’s the money like?”
“10 dollars a day”
“That’s not much”
“I know but it’s all I can afford”
Jockeys are the only people I know who have an ambulance driving around behind them while they work.
Believe it or not, I have heard that a cryptographer/decipherer (working for government intelligence) is one of the most stressful jobs you could have.
High school history teacher in an inner-city school. Believe me, I know.
That being said, I’ve heard (how is that for a cite?) that Air Traffic Controllers what with their immense responsibility, non-existent error margin and intense concentration are some of the most stresseed professionals.
Air Traffic Controllers are stressed, but there is a misconception that they work in a constant life and death situation. This is not true. If every ATC dropped dead at this moment, odds are good that not a single plane would crash. ATC is there to move the traffic through the choke points fast, to “push tin”. So yes they are under a lot of pressure from the airlines, but they do have error margins and it is basically impossible for a single mistake on the part of one person to cause an air disaster. If it were otherwise they would happen a lot more more frequently.
Physchitraists.
They have to listen to everybody’s burden’s all day. That must weigh heavily on their minds.
Being a waiter!
Hostage negotiator?
I would think a good argument could be made for spec op type military folks such as Rangers, SEALS, Marine Recon, AF PJs, etc. Seems the recent rash of domestic homocides by some Army folk have brought some of their stressful lifestyles to light.