Does your job stress you out?

Yes I get really stressed…I’m front desk in a secondary school. Workload is insane, not been there long at all but I’m not enjoying it. I miss working in a primary school.

Accountant here.
Yes it has kept me awake many a night, BUT I am trying to change my mindset and get it in to perspective, so that it doesn't take too much of a toll on me.
I'm beginning to realise it's only a job after all.

Aww wow that is awful. GPs are amazing, you're all doing an amazing job!!

I did work for a big company and now for a small company. I find targets quite stressful and also put a lot of pressure on myself. Some weeks are stressful and some not. I think it’s balanced by the fact I work from home so don’t have to deal with commutes and office politics. The thing I find most stressful is other people not working as hard as I do and then having to pick up the slack and have my clients and work affected by their mistakes….Ive always found that lots of other people don’t seem to have the same drive or work ethic as me 🤷‍♀️

Mine doesn't really but I don't tend to stress anyway. I turn up and do the job to the best of my ability which is all I can do. It's customer service based.

Thank you both for your lovely messages 🥰- it means a lot.

That sounds awful 😞 thank you for the work that you do. It is scary the current state of health services despite all the great staff

@LunaTheCat that is shocking and very worrying.

GP.. officially “part time” but thats 40 hrs a week.
I am stressed because I cannot get patients seen at all in secondary service eg local women’s hospital will only accept women with cance.. so severe anaemia from bleeding can’t be seen, failed every other treatment. Severe suicidality… can’t be seen. I can’t do my job properly, patients angry with me. Paperwork is crippling. It’s awful.

I'm a teacher too, just 3 days though. I find my job stressful when I am there as my class are terrible at listening and following instructions and it's extremely hard to not be grumpy with them and keep a smile on my face.

However I do manage to put it out my head when I am not at work but that might be because I am so busy at home with 3 children of my own!

@JustToBeMe I hear you on the boring. It’s so much better when that sort of 1-1 can be spread between support staff so you get a break, and time with kids that you can converse with and then come back to your 1-1 refreshed. There’s also the frustration and sadness that you feel for the child being in completely the wrong environment.

Yes. I have what is known to be a stressful job - but its fine. I can manage the patients and the work. The owner of my business however is another story. Totally incompetent and probably bipolar. Moody and grumpy as 'we're not profitable enough.' Why she decided to buy the place last year I have no idea. I need to leave :(

Yes it does, I'm grossly underpaid and over managed for what I do and I find both extremely stressful.

Worked as an Executive Assistant in corporates for a long time. It just got harder and harder in terms of workload, office politics and difficult bosses.

I ended up burning out and haven't worked for a while. I'm not sure I'll ever be able to go back to that so currently hatching a plan to do something else on my terms.

Jobs have got harder. A nice, interesting semi-stress free job would be a dream.

Yes my job stresses me. I'm very aware that I'm a "single point of failure", ie there is no-one else there who could do my job currently. Difficult home life over the last 18 months has left me working at crazy times to get everything done. Yes, there are plans in place but it takes time to train people and in the meantime I am overwhelmed and not doing my best work and constantly worried I'm going to mess up something big.

Yep-I’m a teacher. I have constant stomach-churning stress about work which stops me from sleeping and continues and builds even throughout the holidays to a ridiculous crescendo by the end.

The workload is unmanageable (and much of it unrelated to the needs of the pupils), the micromanagement makes you feel like an incompetent child and the constant observations, book scrutinies, learning walks and threat of Ofsted makes you feel that nobody trusts you. The fact that virtually everyone I know over 50 has either left, retired (when you could go early) or been hounded out on a ‘support plan’ and that is probably my future is utterly terrifying as well.

Oh, and I didn’t even mention budgets or SEND.

Anyway, yes, am stressed. It’s become a horrible job that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. Luckily none of my kids, or my friends’ kids (many friends are also ex-teachers) want to do it either.

I feel that pain, @FrivolousKitchenRollUse

Once we recruited very late (TT nearly complete) and the head offered a part-time job to someone on different days to the person they were replacing. 😱

My job does stress me out.

But

a) It’s also interesting and well paid so worthwhile
b) It doesn’t stress me out anywhere near as much as being unemployed would
c) I thrive on stress

My dreams are more about staffing allocations. I'm fortunate we have some staff that can operate in 2 or 3 departments (eg PE and food) but then I'm always having dreams that I haven't put enough checks in place to stop me allocating them to a lesson of each at the same time. Or random ones like halfway through the timetable process the head changes which year groups go for lunch in which period. Which sort of happened once but luckily wasn't as problematic as it could have been!

I was a surgeon and did work for the NHS as a consultant through an agency. Looking back, I didn't have the skill or patience required to tolerate carrying out the work which involved staying in awkward positions at a time. On top of this, I was under pressure from the patient's families hoping not to make errors during surgical procedures. Other staff had to intervene when I argued with other surgeons during an operation. I also was running a side business and drank alcohol at the time. I did make mistakes and external investigations were carried out. I eventually quit because I was making easier money from my other businesses. Looking back, I was younger, I didn't mentally develop to deal with pressure and my other business took my concentration away from my job.

I used to do the timetable at my place. The grid of coloured squares from the software we used still haunts my dreams!

At times yes. I work in education albeit not as a teacher. Part of my role involves timetabling and exam results analysis. I genuinely dream about the timetable when it's in progress it's so full on. That said, the stress is very peak-and-trough and working full time in education means I get some very stress free periods throughout the year.

I don’t do stress! I don’t have the extra energy for it (menopausal).I have just about enough energy to get me through the day, none spare for stressing about things I can’t change 🤷‍♀️

Sometimes. Primary school. Herding 30 6 year olds can be stressful, dealing with needy parents, also. Then the added stress of jumping through hoops for Ofsted.

Yes. The clients are lovely but the admin and computer system is complicated and never-ending.