To be baffled by how everyone on MN claims to have a really stressful job

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Or their DH does. Or they both do.
What exactly is so stressful about your jobs? Does everyone work in Intensive Care or are you being a bit dramatic about the pressures of your job?

Busy GP surgery. Patients talk to you as if you are the spawn of satan and thicker than consequences of a illict affair between the village idiot and an amoeba.

Even the departments look down on us and the Doctors couldnt give a shiny shite about us.

Hoping a new job is in the pipeline soon.

Nobody is irreplaceable. A job is just a job. Many jobs are bullshit jobs that mean nothing.

Roll on automation and maybe people can stop defining themselves by their jobs.

I sat for an hour in my local GP surgery and it was mainly be clenching my jaw and biting my tongue because of the amount of times I wanted to stand up and defend the receptionists

Just utterly utterly stupid shit they were getting shouted at for, and they dealt with it well whereas we don't tend to pander we say talk to us properly or leave. One fella was shouting because she couldn't fit his daughter in for bloods the following day. He was going on about how she's going to be ill and it's all there fault. The receptionist looked at when the blood form was printed... November 2018. November two thousand and fucking eighteen and he's acting like it's someone else's fault because he's only just decided to rock up with the kid

Other things were just people kicking off over mundane things like them not being able to rearrange an appointment... a specialist appointment that had nothing to do with the GP surgery and on the letters it clearly states a number to ring, but this fella tried to bully the receptionist into doing it for him because Mr Joe Bloggs can't possibly do this sort of thing himself despite having a mobile phone clutched into his other hand.

I found a new respect for gp receptionists despite my issues with them at the other surgery I was at

Yes I work in Children's Intensive Care and sometimes it is very stressful!!

I have a very stressful job. Some days I come home and cry. But if I told you what I do you would laugh, because your perception would be that it would be a very easy low level job. You would be wrong though, we have a high staff turnover precisely because it IS very stressful and sometimes people can't take any more.

It's like people on MN can't cope with being expected to do a job competently and cope with a busy period or awkward person. It's got to be stressful.

The problem is that most jobs have been restructured to the point of people having to do the work that used to be done by multiple people, and technology means that you can never switch off (I get calls evening, weekends, holidays), plus working with time differences means you can easily be on a call at midnight. It may not be life and death work that I do (work in a commercial business) but I basically spend my day feeling hen pecked by everyone, as they all need a piece of me.

@Prequelle I totally agree, Elective wards are no where near as busy as acute, and I have similar story's sleeping pts out on to the quieter wards, and the nurses thought they were hard done by!

I don't have a stressful job and I don't want one either. Work life balance is very important to me. I worked in homelessness for years, mega-stressful in the end, then left to become self-employed. Still self-employed but choose not to do and much work as before. Have a part time job alongside that is stress-free. I'm in my 50s now, work is simply a means to an end so I can have the money to properly enjoy my hobbies social life family life holidays relaxation etc. I don't have expensive tastes. That's it.

Whilst mine is not live or death or health situations, I am in a job that I enjoy but if I mess up I could be demoted. DH is self employed so we are reliant on my income and my pension longer term so if anything happens to my job we are in trouble.

I'm a forensic nurse examiner working with acutely sexually assaulted and raped women, men and young people every day. It's stressful in so many ways that most people thankfully can't imagine but I've done it years and cant imagine doing anything else. I wonder if a lot of stress for some people is the worry about their job security in the current political climate

Most jobs are stressful in one way or the other. Even leaving aside mentally challenging, physically demanding and high stakes jobs, most people are quite busy at work which causes stress - if they weren't surely their employer would cut down on staff to save money. Everyone is trying to get the most out of the business or budget.

You don't have to be a CEO to experience it - in fact some of the most stressful jobs I've had have been as junior fast food worker. You are run ragged physically doing the job of 4 people and abused 20 x a day by customers for things that are totally out of your control.

Having said that sometimes people inflict the stress on themselves by worrying over nothing. Others enjoy the idea that they are soooo important and busy and cultivate stress on purpose.

avengers on the whole I feel glad for them but it's when they refuse to accept a patient we want to transfer where I lose my shit.

'No we can't accept that patient, we can't accommodate them'

Hold on you have half the patients we do ratio wise, have zero people on DOLs, no bed patients, no ICU stepdowns, no end of life, your visiting times are stricter, you have short stay healthy patients no no lengthy med rounds... but you can't accept 🙄 Transfer them down after pushing it and theyre all sat there enjoying a brew in the office can't accommodate or won't?

iamclaire thankyou for doing that job.

Mine isn’t stressful at all relative to others, but I find external meetings quite stressful and usually I’m meeting C level executives in investment banks or asset managers who are notoriously impatient and they are usually looking for very in-depth technological info which I don’t always have. I have a huge fear of being asked something I can’t answer and I find that quite stressful.
But no, it’s not life or death and I get remunerated handsomely for it, not to mention as long as I’m there between about 10 and 5, I work nice hours.
My sister in the other hand, is a medic, earns about a third of what I do and has a very stressful job with anti social hours. It doesn’t seem very fair really but I guess she has a lot of job satisfaction, whereas I don’t.

I had a really stressful job, horrendous deadlines for brochures going to print, managers changing what they wanted on the pages at the 11th hour (leaving us with no time to source new pictures and write new text copy etc), people refusing to sign off pages as they didn’t like a certain picture etc. It was hell. I left and took a fab admin job albeit I earn 11K less. No more stress, come home at 5.30pm and don’t think about anything until 8.55am the next morning. What’s best is I don’t get the Antiques Roadshow Blues anymore (that knot in your stomach about 7pm on a Sunday night).

My current job is the most stressful I've ever had. It affects my sleep and my mental health. It involves dealing with a lot of very angry people.

My job is stressful.
I manage change in the HR department of a supermarket. If I change something it can impact the pay of 140k people. If a tech change goes wrong, the same.

Deadlines are tight and its got risk attached to it. But I like it and it pays the bills.

My husband is a solicitor. If he screws up, or one of his team do, his client goes bust or looses their business or something else dramatic. He also risks being struck off/sued. He also regularly doesn’t get paid by his clients. It’s nit the most stressful job but it’s about as stressful as it gets if it’s not a life or death scenario. Most high end professional jobs are because of the people depending on your and the risk of consequences if you are negligent due to the difficulty if the work.

The least stressful job I ever had was working in Paperchase in the now defunct Borders book store.

I’ve done loads of jobs since then. None of have been particularly stressful.

My car is heavy, a ten story building is heavy, the world is heavy. If it's too heavy for you to lift then it's too heavy - doesn't actually matter how much it weighs.

It's all relative. Not hard to understand.

If a job wasn't stressful at times I'd question the challenge and fulfilment of it.

Scratchyfluffface - you've nailed it.

I feel pecked too.

It's always "DH" that has a super stressful job. I think many of those posters don't want to admit their husband takes advantage of them and doesn't respect them, so they try to convince themselves he's just too busy and tired to be a good father and partner.

Isnt it all objective though! what might be stressful for you - i might think is nothing at all for me.... i would say my job is stressful - if we dont get certain documents out in time (this month) in a bid window - i lose my job - is that stressful enough for you OP?

You're being paid to get the docs out on time - just do it!

Screwymcscrewup.... . I earn same as DH in equally stressful job. He is also a bloody good father & helps out plenty at home. I worry that we both leave no time for looking after ourselves/sleep as a result & wonder what the long term impact of that will be.