If your job ISN’T stressful… what do you do for work?

[Forwardthinkingcrayfish]

I’m a teacher and more often than not I come home stressed, dehydrated and exhausted.

I’d love to know if there are some people out there that generally don’t find their work stressful, and if so, what is it you do for a job?

I don’t know what I want from this thread, other than some glimpses of hope in case I ever want to change job! 🍷

Name change as outing.

I'm a senior dementia care worker, I work three nights a week (8-8) and get around £1500 a month (just above minimum wage) and can pick up extras if I want to.

It's easy as it's a small unit (7 resident's) and I love it! I get about 6 hours a night to watch tv/read and the rest is light personal care and paperwork.

I don't get sick pay or a good pension etc but dh has us covered with that. I've always had to fit my life around dh's job due to the kids so now they're older I can't believe I get to bring in a ok wage every month on just three night shifts a week.

I'm a dog walker. Mostly work 8.30am-2pm, Monday-Friday. No evenings or weekends unless I actively choose to do it (rarely!).

I don't earn mega-bucks but more than enough to cover my living costs. It's worth it for the excellent work-life balance and being able to work for myself.

The only thing that makes it stressful is the general public but I know all the quiet places after four and a half years

Children and Young people's Psychotherapist in the NHS. I absolutely love my job I am so passionate about it. My training was stressful in terms of workload but I loved every second of learning about mental health difficulties and how to treat them. I love my job I love it.

Was previously in SEMH schools and absolutely adored the kids, but fucking hated SLT and their insane approach to having 1 second of time off work.

I take my hat off to you. Teaching takes it out of you. I've spent this evening at a hobby club night, and was teaching several beginners. And they are well-behaved adults who wanted to be there, and are keen to learn. I am shattered!

Work-wise, I'm in finance and fiddle about with numbers. Not a lot to get stressed about, and I don't need to spend a lot of time talking to people. Semi-retired now though which helps, so I'm not there all day.

I would like to do this. I didn't know if there would be any call for it, but perhaps there is.
Could I be very cheeky and ask how many hours you work and how much income this gives you?

I got to do this job for 5 months as maternity cover once and it was amazing. 5 years later I am still gutted I couldn’t stay in it. Have never seen it advertised anywhere again :( Audio book on and largely left to my own devices.

I work in a library, and I’m working towards my master’s in library and information science. I don’t get paid a lot, but I love it.
it can be a little stressful now and then, with some of our patrons acting up, but nothing at all near the stress of other jobs I’ve had. I feel appreciated, and I feel supported. And best of all, I get to leave my work behind me when I go home.
I wish I’d found this sooner!

hoping you find something that is less stressful, OP.

I work part time so that may account for low stress rather than the job itself. I am a pre school teacher but have subbed in other nursery rooms too. 3.5 or 4 hours a day, school term only so no childcare costs or worries, I love the children i work with and even on my worst day it's a short shift so I don't get stressed. Some days like yesterday are actually fun and I'd do it for free. All possible because Dh has a good salary and that's the truth. I'm very much the homemaker too and I hate the dynamic in principle but its made a much easier life for all of us.

I'm an animal welfare campaigner. It can be tough to be surrounded by stories of animals in pain or distress due to the actions of humans but I get to create strategies to stop the abuse and also work to change laws protecting them. I don't get stressed, I manage my own time. I used to work in animal welfare operations which is extremely stressful and many people go off sick as a result.

AO civil servant but it doesn't pay very well, so I'm looking for promotions! However it's extremely cushy

Local Authority Prosecutor. Sounds like it could be really stressful but I really enjoy it. Have the odd day where I'm throwing in the towel of course and retiring but I've 20 years left yet and don't feel horrid about the thought 😅

Registrar of births, deaths and marriages. It has odd moments of stress but is generally fairly pleasant. Walk away at the end of the day and the appointments are all done. It can be boring if you have days on end of just births to register, but it's easy...every now and then there is something suspicious to report or a tipsy groom or a late bridal party impacting the next ceremony, but overall very low stress. Pay isn't great but is ok, and lots work in it part time.

I am a forklift instructor, no stress and I meet a lot of interesting people

I'm a teaching fellow at a university - loads of freedom on what I teach, reading is an actual part of the job, creative control over how I teach, super interesting intelligent colleagues & I'm part time. It's great.
Lots of academics don't like the job as there's no research component but I love it.

Work pretty ok (receptionist in mental health unit). Only stressful when you ask for help in finding out stuff for people and they are too busy/arsey to help! For instance , we don't have details of ALL the social workers that are in the borough or details of all the doctors working here, only the ones on the rota list.

We are not in the main hospital which is a different NHS Trust! They have removed their main number from the website and as we are nothing to do with them, we had no numbers to give people who ring up about appointments in various clinics etc etc. We have had abuse but most people are bemused as to why we cannot just put them through! We get at least 20 calls a day, for various clinics, mostly from the elderly and bewildered. We managed to get a few numbers for some clinics but not all. To be fair, if I rang up a hospital and could only get through to MHU (ours is the only number on the website), I would not think much of the hospital!

Waves to @samiamnt and @DungareesAndTrombones - another psychotherapist here. The job can be emotionally demanding and sometimes I carry concerns about clients with me, but I don’t get to the end of the day stressed out. I think the reasons it’s not stressful include: being able to manage my own time, solo working (no office politics) and balance of different kinds of work. And I love my job!

Senior manager, HE.
I can’t say it is zero stress, it has its moments, but 90% of the time I say low stress.
I’m also .81 FTE and hybrid which helps have a balance.