Teaching- any other jobs that make you cry regularly?

I regularly cried teaching in a school in a deprived area with awful behaviour and a blame culture from SLT. I started at a leafy suburb school and haven’t cried at all.

Pharmaceutical industry. Insecure, toxic, high pressure, politics. I’m only there to get paid. And blamed when things get tough, it seems. 🙄 I used to love it but in a different company, too far to commute now.

Oh and I meant to add that when I was practising law, I was completely unprepared for the outright misogyny and the way some (mainly older) men treat female solicitors 😡

2 jobs, one where I was bullied by a bitch and the entire hierarchy just supported her.
One where it was utterly toxic. But I learnt from my first experience and walked out from the second one.

Being a lawyer.
I thought it would be a better move from working in charities with cabals of bitches. Turned out I cried less in charity sector.

I cried regularly as a teacher. I’ve moved to a civil service role in the MoJ which is working with offenders every day. Only cried once in the last 3 years because of residual stress from teaching. I felt overwhelmed at work and didn’t say anything to my manager. I cried whilst talking to my mum about it but should have just gone to my manager straight away because she was lovely and immediately reduced my workload. A massive change from teaching!

I used to be a criminal defence solicitor. I managed 6 years until I got fed up of having panic attacks in the toilets before court or crying regularly on the way to work.
I think for me it was the unpredictability as I would never know who I was going the represent either at court or at the police station and I am much more confident if I can plan ahead. Some of my colleagues thrived on it so they were clearly better suited to it!
At the same time my Dad was on palliative care so I was always worried about him too.

Ironically, a few years later, I have two children now and I have just started a new job as a Teaching Assistant. I absolutely love it but I completely admire the teachers and HLTA’s. I couldn’t go back to having a job which I take home and / or keeps me up at night. I feel like I have the best of both worlds now ♥️

I'm not a GP, but when I think of the number of patients they have and the experience of people I have had, I think I'd be passing them the hankies and pillow to scream into!

And client expectations are out of control. If it's not done instantly and perfectly they will kick off. They all think they're your only client and could do it better than you. I try and try and it's not enough. I cry about work at least once a week.

NHS- scientific role, not patient facing. Toxic, incompetent management.

Yes this. Exhausting and emotionally painful.

And that’s before the unmanageable workloads, ridiculously long (unpaid) hours and cuts to services that impact you being able to offer the help needed.

Then as someone else said, you take a much needed week or two off and you come back to twice as much to do so it never feels worth it.

Welfare benefits advisers, the clients are more vulnerable and stressed. The DWP help promised isn’t there. I find the DWP staff are very good but don’t have power to do things and as frustrated as we are. They will get the brunt of the anger as well.

I came in with some MH but struggle so much now just asking the safeguarding questions.
Government rhetoric on cutting benefits is frightening for the people that really need them.

Though it’s not nice hearing what’s happening to others it makes me feel less alone and stupid. Others in my office very stressed.

Nice. 🙄

Was it the job though, or was it the workplace?

I ask because my first experience of working Ina. Secondary school (support role) was appalling and when I left (basically had a breakdown after caring for dying parent through lockdown which resulted in numerous battles with employer - I was having panic attacks on the way into work daily) I thought I'd never work in a school again.

After a couple of years out I kind of fell into my current workplace - a bigger, and in terms of student body, far more challenging setting - and absolutely love it. I feel well supported and respected by the SLT, have fabulous colleagues and have been promoted after only 18 months!

Same reason why us anaesthetists have 3-5x higher suicide rates than the general population

Midwifery again. Huge workload, responsibility, constant staff shortage, higher patient expectations, culture shift to more litigation and no respect all just make the perfect stress storm. I love being a midwife, and think I am capable of doing a good job when I can give the standard of care I want. Sadly that's rare in the NHS currently.

It really is. I’m a teacher - in my 30th year. I’ve had my moments but generally look forward to work and very rarely cry. It shouldn’t be the case that any profession is so consistently stressful that it’s normal to dread going in.

Seconded. I used to think at least if there was a bomb on the tube I wouldn't have to go to work. So glad I got out.

I second this. Some firms are better than others but it’s a horrible stressful job a lot of the time

Omg I do that with music and was getting annoyed for doing it to myself! But now it makes a bit of sense the way you have put it! It is like you need to release anxiety before you even get there!!! (I’m a specialist nurse so similar job too and could have wrote the exact same feeling about the overwhelm and responsibility with the lack of support)

Work in a primary school (not a teacher)- always cry at the nativity, summer performance and any shows the kids put on - think it's the mum in me! Happy tears though!

Teachers who want to leave and especially those thinking of having a car accident in order to rest (also known as "the tree") - please look up "Life after Teaching - Exit the Classroom and Thrive" on Facebook. Changed my life. Possibly saved it too.

Dr

The only time I cry now is in sympathy with a client. If someone else cries I find myself crying too. But actually enjoy my work now and being self employed with no nutcase colleagues.

Customer relations for a manufacturer. Spend all day either listening to complaints; on the phone to older people who often tell you how they haven't spoken to anyone for days and have really just rung for a chat; or dealing with corporate clients who are pretty much always rude and demanding.
It's a rare day that you don't have to stop for a cry. But actually I'm not sure that's a bad thing. Better out than internalised and it's natural to be sad when you hear sad things.