Is Over!
Posted on 11/15/2013 8:44:25 AM PST by SeekAndFind
We all think our jobs are stressful, but having a job on the extreme end of the spectrum can mean strict deadlines, brutal criticism, and even regularly having other people's lives in your hands. To find out what the most stressful jobs in America are, we reached out to career information expert Laurence Shatkin, Ph.D., who compared the stress levels of the 747 occupations identified by the U.S. Department of Labor.
This list is ranked by the stress tolerance for each job, which measures how often employees face high-stress situations. It also includes the consequences of employee errors, which measures how serious it would be if mistakes were made, and the job's time pressure, which measures the strictness of deadlines. All factors are based on a scale from zero to 100 for prevalence in each job, where a higher rating signals high stress levels.
The stress factors are from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET).
* First Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives
Stress tolerance: 94
Consequence of error: 71.5
Time pressure: 76.3
Average annual salary: $78,270
What they do: Directly supervise and coordinate activities of members of the police force.
* Mental Health Counselors
Stress tolerance: 94.2
Consequence of error: 57.2
Time pressure: 70.5
Average annual salary: $115,080
What they do: Work with individuals and groups to promote mental and emotional health.
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#1 would be a Christian Conservative Military Soldier serving under Obozo !
Obastard press secretary is got to have the hardest job
Obama fact checker.
They missed project managers. Lots of time stress, but worst of all no control, their job is to get the project done on time but they have no input into team size, project scope, or schedule, just get it done.
Eric Holder’s attorney
Dancers!?
Are they deliberately ignoring military jobs? (Even though they did show a military helo crew for pilots, etc.)
It would seem that any of those “stressed” civilian folk would be much more stressed if tossed into a combat situation or even a carrier flight deck during flight ops on a dark, rainy, windy night.
RE: Dancers!?
I didn’t know Fred Astaires and Gene Kelly were stressed...
White house press secretary.
College or pro football coach should be on the list, but the high salaries keep them off the list. I think about half the jobs on this list are bogus as high-stressers.
Education Administrator?
Really?
Yes lack of control is a huge factor in inducing stress.
Many of the jobs on this list actually do have control.
Many of the top race car drivers seem to have a pulse rate around 30.
Most of the surgeons and obsteticians I’ve been around are cool customers also.
“Mental Health Counselors...Average annual salary: $115,080”
Fat chance. I don’t know a single mental health counselor that makes that kind of cake out side of psychologists, psychiatrists, and people in upper management of facilities. (The wife is a psychotherapist and Director of Outpatient Programs, and playing roles such as Chief Clinical Officer, ANR Director, etc. )
Most stressful job in sports is ice hockey goalie. How would you like it if, every time you made a mistake at your job, somebody turned on flashing lights and a siren?
There are some valid ones here, but I just have to discount these 6:
Broadcast News Analysts
Mental Health Counselors
Education Administrators
Dancers
Psychiatric Technicians
Psychiatric Aides
I can think of 6 jobs that are worse in regards to all of their criteria.
Fat chance.”
Lots of Master’s level people in and around Houston can make even more than that but they are self-employed, do a lot of marketing, have a web page, stay away from all of the lower paying networks and have private pay patients as part of their base. Ones I know work a whole lot of hours but love what they do and many of them are excellent therapists.
Then there are those lead designers who have to create the product with those minimal resources, short schedules, and long feature lists that force us to work days, nights, weekends, holidays, etc. while everyone is asking ‘can you give me an update?’
I could work more, if we didn’t have so many update meetings.
Often the private practice folks are short term. They have a peak that lasts a few years at best, then because of all that overhead to maintain the practice they fizzle and go back to a company. It cycles.
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