Does your job stress you out?

I'm also a teacher. I love it but find aspects of it stressful. Time pressure, overwhelm when so many tasks need completing and others crop up throughout the day. Emotional stress when I know children I work with aren't safe at home. Managing other adults with limited time and resources. Long working hours. Constant minor illness as I work with super spreaders. Some parents can be difficult

Recently, yes. I am dreaming about it and losing sleep. Am also fantasising about leaving. All down to management change. I used to like it.

All the time

I work in the NHS although not directly with patients but the work I do does affect patient care. If I fuck up there can be serious issues

Then there's being the sole earner, I'm entirely responsible for my family income. As a widower, I've got no-one else to rely upon

Teacher as well. There can be lots of lovely moments, but the overall picture is lots of adrenaline, deadlines, burnout to the point of causing health issues. I changed careers so have worked in private companies and charities, as well as working in a pub and at a language school as a student so think I have a relatively broad scope to compare it to (within reason).

Currently pregnant and doing my best to manage stress, my school is being supportive which I appreciate a lot and it not being my first year in my current school makes a huge difference.

It's unbelievable how much pressure of Ofsted permeates basically every aspect of school life, plus parents are much more challenging in my current school. Less behaviour issues but the ones I do get are exhausting and there's less internal support. There are lots of positives as well though. I do plan to leave teaching at some point but will see how I go after mat leave.

Also I think most people's jobs cause them some type of stress, the people I know who don't have this are definitely in the minority. There are plenty of jobs I'd choose teaching over too.

Yes. I’m an IT Project Manager. My job stresses me out. I wake up at night thinking and stressing about it and can’t get back to sleep. I delivered a major project earlier this year. In the lead up to it, I cried on two separate occasions on front of my manager and a senior manager. There were also days where I cried in front of my husband. Not good.

i don’t know if it’s just me and I’m really not cut out for this work (been doing it 10+ years) or if it’s the company or the project. I’m under less pressure now but still don’t really enjoy it.

I’m the breadwinner in my family so need to keep the high paying job.

I also know that I always take my work too serious and end up not enjoying my work, so don’t see much benefit in taking a lower stress job even if we could afford it. I would still end up unhappy at work but get less pay for my trouble. So I keep going!

I've been in tears over work for past 2 days. For "clients" read staff.

Mine can be extremely stress inducing or stress free depending on the behaviour and needs of others. The safety of the people around me is also my responsibility and I work in a potentially dangerous environment.

I work in higher education administration. It's busy and can be intense, certainly at this time of the year, but it's never bad stress and I don't lose sleep over it. I really like the department and the students.

Previously I worked in a successful small business. It was horrendously busy and super stressful, with impossible deadlines because it was under-resourced and understaffed. It became very bad stress indeed and I left at Christmas for the sake of my mental health.

My day job is kids. They're very hard work and very stressful being so young.
My evening/night job is in hospitality. That's also stressful. However some people make it worthwhile.
Cannot wait for my spa day in a couple of weeks!

Yes, it does. I'm a teacher, like a previous poster. I'm very, very lucky to work in a lovely school with very minimal behaviour issues and with lovely colleagues (including almost all of SLT). What stresses me out is the workload and the fact that it's basically impossible to do everything you're supposed to do.

In my job read 'prisoners' for clients

But no it doesn't stress me out
But yes, I do think about it at times on days off

Definitely. For ‘clients’ read ‘students and SLT’.