Teaching- any other jobs that make you cry regularly?

Fashion buying. The bosses take it all very seriously and speak to people like shit. They blame you if anything doesn’t sell and you have stock sitting on the shelves. Surprisingly incredibly stressful job.

In my 1960s convent school nuns were still chastising themselves with hair shirts, chains, excessive fasting and similar practices. So pretty weird.

Nursing! I’m in mental health and my new job isn’t so bad but my last job broke me and I was regularly in tears. And always comforting colleagues as well!

It’s horrendous, how stripped to the bone resources are and the blame culture we have. Very hard to be a nurse!

Child protection social work involved quite a lot of tears, rage, sadness, frustration and sometimes hopelessness.

Really surprised to read that about corporate law. What does that involve? Is that in house or agency? Why is it so upsetting?

Yep, definitely law. The pressure is intense.

I used to be a solicitor. I think I cried every day for 4 years and only jacked it in because I had become suicidal. When I told my boss how bad things were he just shrugged and said 'Go on anti depressants- that's what we all do'.

Just the relentless pressure to keep bringing in clients while not being able to properly care for the ones you already had because you had to keep bringing in money to the firm. Plus I did family law so saw people at their very worst in divorces and child custody battles and some child protection work. I don't think there was a day where I was not abused at by a client or screamed at and I simply could not keep up. I had a huge number of active clients when I finished up and I simply could not do a good job for them at that volume particularly as most days I would be tied up in court for hours, and all my firm cared about were billable hours. I suffer from insomnia and so would just get up and continue working. I would physically go into the office 9-6 on Sundays to try and 'get a jump' on the week and miss out on time with my family including a disabled pre-teen who needed support.

I gave up when I was actively suicidal as I needed to. It took me 3 years to even get back half of who I was and now I work in office administration and I enjoy it alot.

This thread is really sad. shocking really. I did have a job in my early 20s where I was left on my own in the office and it was before the internet and I was so bored I cried some days.

I’ve worked for myself for 15 years and never cry about it and I cry about a lot of other things as I’m PeriAF.

Corporate law too. I had a lengthy period when I used to dry wretch every morning before leaving for work.

I'm a social worker. I'm now in management but when I was frontline I cried quite regularly.

I'm an accountant. Worked in a well known large professional firm. The partner and manager (who were sleeping together) would take you into his office and scream -literally- at you for hours. I came out in tears one day and the PA said she was so scared for me. It wasn't just me, the whole team got screamed at. Lasted 12 months left long lasting scars.

Place I recently left had a high level accountant collapse in the office from stress

You need to get a different job....

I’m a NICU nurse.
cry daily. If that helps. Even when I’m not in work

Nursing. I work in an amu and it's a running joke that's it not an amu shift if someone hasn't cried by the end of the day

Our turnover is rapid.

Dental hygienist .

Doctor

Pretty much anything in healthcare. (Paediatrician)

Midwifery. I used to regularly cry on the way home from work. In the last couple of years I notice I've (subconsciously?) started playing music on my drive to work that makes me cry, and I think that releases some of the anticipatory anxiety about getting to work.
It's the huge level of individual responsibility without any support from management / the NHS / government to enable you to actually practice safely. It's cripplingly terrifying.

Call centre, cry regularly. Also did in my past job. But that was emergency services so in a slightly different way

People post a lot about customer service on here but it’s really fucking hard when a customer has spent 20 mins putting the boot in about stuff that’s nothing to do with you, berating you about your lack of service when you’ve offered everything you can, then the next person says “oh you don’t sound very chirpy!”
No, I don’t! I had 5 mins to cry and feel useless before I had to log back on

Healthcare. I often see nurses crying, stressed or at breaking point. Same with social workers..

Corporate real estate, been working in this area 5 years now. Just started crying the last few months, not every day but dread every day has set in. The misogyny, that is constant, has finally worn me down and I have very little resilience to it any more. It's men constantly making bad decisions, taking no accountability, but also always wanting to tell me I am wrong, but 6 months down the line their course of action has once again proven to be a bad call, creating extra work.

Prettybubble - solidarity too - the only job worse than mine is probably yours!

Your post is why I am always polite to receptionists, even the moody ones, because you have to put up with so much. I imagine you above anyone else wishes everything ran smoothly.
A bit of respectful politeness costs nothing and makes things less stressful for people in your job.

Solidarity with other 2 GPs - the huge overwhelm, lack of ability to refer, the grinding hours of paperwork, the 11 hr days without a break.
I love being a doctor, it also breaks me.