Top 10 Most Stressful Professions
Sunday, September 17th, 2006 - 2:09pm
Stole this from HardOCP.
http://eknowledger.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!F475D4DE444DB1AB!1111.entry
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According to 33 News abc survy IT experts are more likely to suffer from stress than any other professional , A staggering 97 percent of people working in IT claim to find their life at work stressful on a daily basis.The poll revealed that IT professionals say it is difficult to get the work done when managers are constantly on their backs.
One IT respondent said: "I spend most of my day fielding calls from people who don't even have a basic knowledge of computers and printers."It is amazing the amount of time I spend teaching people where the on-off button is.
"And when I do actually find a technical problem to solve, I have my manager breathing down my neck wondering why I have a backlog of complaints."
People working in medical professions have the second most stressful job – with 96.8 percent saying caring for others is rewarding but traumatic on the same hand.Engineers, Sales and Marketing professionals and Teachers also have demanding roles, according to the poll.
Poll Results :
* TOP TEN STRESSFUL PROFESSIONS
0.5. Soldier/Law Enforcement
1. Parent
1.5. IT
2. Medicine / Caring Profession
3. Engineering
4. Sales and Marketing
5. Education
6. Finance
7. Human Resources
8. Operations
9. Production
10.Clerical
*TOP TEN WORK STRESSES
1. Workload
2. Feeling undervalued
3. Deadlines
4. Type of work people have to do
5. Having to take on other people's work
6. Lack of job satisfaction
7. Lack of control over the working day
8. Having to work long hours
9. Frustration with the working environment
10. Targets
*TOP TEN COLLEAGUE IRRITATIONS
1. Seeing others not pulling their weight
2. Managers changing their minds about what they want doing
3. Lack of support from managers
4. Pressure from managers
5. Feeling put-upon by managers
6. Interruptions by colleagues
7. Interruptions by managers
8. Bullying behavior by managers
9. Lack of support from colleagues
10. Bullying behavior by colleaguesGuys it seems that most of the stress and problems realted to managers , nothing new ... huh , ok dear employees dudes keep dreaming about clear world of managers untill u die and found it in heavens , or untill u become a manager and ruin others life .
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Ha! That list is a lie. A damnable lie, I tell you. Why? Because, Parent is not on the list.
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Fixed.
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I agree with Education being on the list. Teaching sure was stressful.
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I agree with IT being #1. I'll save my reasons why for the time when I no longer work in IT.
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I'd put Soldier at the top of the list.
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I agree with that. Now all I need to do is try out IT work and my stressful life will be complete.
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I call bogus list. Nowhere does Air Traffic Controller appear.
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I'd put $MY_JOB at the top of the list.
The stress is offset by getting to go home and have sex with Angelina Jolie. That movie told me so.
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Darn right. Let the creators of that list spend one week on patrol in Iraq then tell us IT is number one.
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Yeah, but then you have the added stress of Billy Bob Thornton trying to kill you.
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Stress is all in our heads.
Yes, but with an IT job, the users force their stress into OUR heads.
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Of course IT is on the list. The nature of business these days is all about information. Tac on outsourcing, compliance and regulation and finish it off with a nice heaping serving of security concerns and you have an ulcer ready to go.
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This makes me feel really good about quitting my job as a programmer and going to medical school.
Geez, I only improved my lot by 1 place.
My dream job is working in either a coffee house that roasts its own beans or a bicyle shop. Hell,
how about a combo bicycle shop/coffee house.
Stress usually comes about from an imbalance in reponsibility = authority = recognition/reward. IMHO.
The funny thing about that list is this:
Who among us doesnt' work in one of those professions?
Doesn't that list account for the majority of the workforce?
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Well, it'd be hard to find too many people outside this list, because it's so vague. Both my last job, and my current job [ER clerk, medical research/data entry respectively] could be classified under #2, as well as #10. Both jobs are clerical in nature, and both are focussed on the medical field. They're both stressful in their own right, but I doubt I'd put either in the top 10 (especially not working as an ER clerk... I can't tell you how many nights found me sitting at my desk, happilly reading a good book... but then again, the occasional ranting patient got to me most of the time).
And a lot of this has to do with where you work. I was an ER clerk in a pretty remote naval hospital, down in South Carolina, and we typically treated about 30 patients in a 24 hour span (I remember one day that only had 9 patients in that whole 24hrs). But if I were to work in a place like John Stroger (public hospital in Chicago... the hospital I do medical research on), I doubt I'd be reading much with having to register the common 300-400 patients per 24hrs, and I'm sure I'd be catch flak from the patients who have been waiting between 8-10hrs to be seen.
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I agree that this seems like an incredibly narrow one. Soldier, ATC, how about DEA field agent? CIA Operative? Politician during re-election. Production on a live TV show. Heck I've fit into several of these categories, but I can't imagine anything more stressful than a job which requires you to carry a gun all day.
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You mean HardOCP made a list about stressful jobs, and IT showed up as #1. NO FREAKING WAY!!!!
The list is wrong, porn star is nowhere to be seen. Think of all the performance anxiety.
Oh wait nevermind they put marketing up there.
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I don't have Kids but parenting has got to be harder than working in IT. Also, soldier needs to be on the top of the list...
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How about Swamp's Gay Lover?
That has to be up there!
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Don't you have to receive compensation for it to be considered a profession?
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Syphilis doesn't count?
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So...you know who really need a nice massage to come down from all that stress? Military IT parents who do porn on the side.
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Hey where is guerilla marketer on that list? With all the ... Oh wait.... forget I said that..
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