To think that all jobs are stressful?

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I'm really interested to hear if anyone has/knows of a job that is really easy, low stress. A job where you can go home and just forget all about it.

I can't think of one that would be completely without stress and annoyances.

Maybe purpledaisies but then couldn't you say that about any job?

Well obviously, but generally there are roles that are much less stressful than others and you can leave work at work. I can't imagine any delivery driver goes home and worries about how they'll park the next day.

I think you're determined to find stress in anything OP.

I had a summer job as a filing clerk in a fairly obscure civil service office. It really wasn't a stressful job at all. Low pressure, ample time to get everything done, regular breaks, no responsibility, no need to give it any thought when you left (or while you were doing it either, tbh), flexitime hours.

I think the jobs you did at uni were not stressful because you haven't tied your identity up in them in any way, you know you're moving on, so you stress about other stuff instead! Or stay happy. I found shop work stress free because i knew I wasn't in it for the long haul. And all my other odd jobs at uni.

I had a holiday job putting inserts into Filofaxes (showing my age) It was incredibly boring but not remotely stressful. It seems to be that most low/no stress jobs are boring and/or low paid. It's about getting a balance.

I think the highest stress often comes from the other people you work with. So two identical jobs can be more or less stressful if you have a rubbish / fantastic boss.

When i was at uni I had load of stress free jobs. Retail, waitressing, bar maid, a receptionist (sat reading my book for half the day, answered the phone and put the call through to someone else the other half, with a quick chat to the postman thrown in).
I guess now sensitive you are to stress. Bar work was knackering and some of the customers were dicks but I didn't find that stressful. Same with retail. Customers and management could be a pain in the arse but I didn't go home and dwell on it.
My career is/was sometimes stressful as I was managing multi million pound accounts which involved quite a lot of pressure. Other people might not find that stressful.

Maybe you're right purpledaisies. I don't know, I could imagine it could feel quite 'stressful', knowing that you've got so many deliveries to make and only so much time, I could imagine just driving around all day being stressful, I don't know as never done it but drivers often seem quite hassled to me.

I think Sparrowhawk has hit the nail on the head really, there's things to do and people to be dealt with no matter what.

My least stressful job was being a gallery assistant in a museum. I found waitressing very stressful, more so than my current job as a lawyer.

Fitness instructors.

Go in teach a class, do some PT sessions. Fraternise with gym staff and clients.

That's the problem, stressful or boring it often leads to the same sort of unhappiness

Saying that I know a women who blacked out and briefly lost her vision from being so stressed at her pretty vicious work. Grim - and will definitely have long term consequences

Milady I'm just pondering really. To be fair the job you describe does sound really pleasant, I've worked in offices like that.

My least stressful job was ironing (in a small shop) - totally stress free, nice film to work with and appreciative customers.

Having said that, it was kind numbingly boring.

I am.now a science teacher which is stressful but I love it so I wouldn't have it any other way!

I had a part-time temp job (I was also studying) printing labels and stuffing envelopes.

Small office with lovely people. We'd chat while I stuffed and printed. Occasionally I'd be the only person there and would have Radio 4 on while I worked. I had loads of headspace left over for my studies.

Glorious. Admittedly it was part-time and short-term, and not well paid; I realise it would have been different if that was my job/career for the foreseeable future.

My first full-time job after leaving school was filing P45s for the local tax office. It wasn't stressful at all, the worst thing about it was getting black marks from the carbon paper all over my hands and face (as it was in 'the olden days' and everything was very low tech) but being paid so little made budgeting and managing to eat and pay bills and bus fare at the end of the month extremely stressful. It was also very boring.

My actual duties are stress free. I organise the stock and equipment for a busy medical assesment unit. I don't have to think about it when I'm not there. The bit that is stressful is the bitchiness from other staff though. But I think that is the same in most places.

I've had lots of jobs that were stress-free and were definitely leave-stress-at-the-door

But you seem to be finding a stressful angle in all the examples people are posting, so are you just generally a stressful person?
If that is your personality type, I can see how you will find everything stressful to a degree

I worked in an advertising agency and the atmosphere was very stressful indeed, whichever department you were in.

Later I worked as a cleaner. Apart from having to get the job done within a particular time scale it wasn't particularly stressful, but it was very hard work physically and sometimes downright annoying.

I know a woman that gave up her averagely paid 9 to 5 office to work 3 different low paid part time jobs instead. She found it stressful working in an environment where she relied on them totally for her take home pay, she finds working 3 part time jobs less stressful because she doesn't rely on any one of them. The upshot is she's far more relaxed and the knock on effect is the employers love her breezy outlook.

He isn't a delivery driver exactly, he doesn't have schedules and traffic doesn't bother him as he just sees it as getting paid to sit in traffic.

I used to work full time in a bookshop. That was pretty much totally stress free. Rubbish pay.

Most of what I did as a student:

Receptionist in the Chief Execs Offices of the council
Filing insurance policies, very boring
English Assistant in a French high school
Pool typist

BUT Found working in a pub stressful due to the bitch of a manager, who stole my weeks wages for 'subs' for a punter and customers, who were a mixture of older working men, some of whom liked to talk about their dicks, petty thieves etc

Mine can have stress while I'm there. I have two jobs. One part time as an accounts assistant for a small company. I work evenings and one day a week. The full time is a despatch manager for a larger company, where I have to book out goods leaving and make sure the accounts are okay before doing so.
Once I've left the building I completely shut off.
I think it depends what kind of person you are as I'm really quite laid back.
That being said, I did work as an estate agent for a bit and did used to think about the vendors/ clients in bed at night.

I manage a women's clothing shop, and I am never stressed. It's thanks to excellent colleagues, and managers who understand what it's like to be on the shop floor. I'm a very calm person generally and I'm not bothered about crap pay, which helps

I suppose it does depend on what each individual finds stressful.

Yup. As someone with varying degrees of anxiety issues I'd also add that there are times when I find my current work (self-employed, for myself, earnings variable) as stressful as my last six-figure City law job. The common factor is me.

Thinking back, the lowest-stress jobs I had were:

• Teaching karate to a class of 5/6 year olds
• Running kids' Lego birthday parties (so much free cake!)
• Tutoring for the 11+ in North London

All things which I imagine others might find stressful!

All jobs uou need to do the work and with that will always come irritations and the occasional stress. Pay rates escalate the more stress and rhe more skilled, pressured and complex the role is.

I remember watching one of those back to thr floor programs and it was a fast food chain and one of the servers asked the director how much he was paid. The server exclaimed shock and said how much he was paid and rhe director responded "with yes but I bet you sleep at night"

I think that's a key point in the stress discussion.