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

[T1nah]

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?

Mine's stressful, but in a good way. Senior executive in a professional services firm.

I'm an HR manager for a large national charity with complex people management issues and other half is a police officer. Both stressful.

What job do you do OP?
Do you have kids?
My job is stressful. I work in the NHS. Patients sometimes complete suicide and regularly self harm. It can take an emotional toll. It’s also very very busy. I enjoy it but am still struggling with dealing with the stressful side of it.
We have children and it can be stressful to come home and be completely available for them and get everything done at home. We need two incomes for our mortgage and household costs.
I don’t think it’s strange that a lot of people in different types of jobs say their jobs are stressful. Especially when you are a parent as well and less able to stay late/take work home to finish off if you need to.

Tunt can you please tell me what your role is if you don't mind.

Has the op mysteriously vanished back to their stress free life?

Nope - I'm skimming the posts with everyone going on about their stressy jobs.

My job isn't stressful in itself but it has caused stress and triggered my anxiety very badly at times. This is basically due to leadership decisions made without consultation with those who are expected to do the job coupled with no real pay rises.

I am in a grade which is senior enough to take the flak but not senior enough to take part in decision making. Couple this with the fact out ultimate boss genuinely is a psychopath and refuses to admit she may have made major errors in her redesign.

So we have huge attrition, horrid politics demotivated staff and upset clients. circumstance makes it stressful. But the actual job and people are good fun so it's a balancing act.

My job isn't stressful

Well it would be slightly if I did it daily.

I average about 4 days a month

No stress

Absolutely stressful but different kind to before - I must be a glutton for punishment! Previously I performed Search & Rescue in extreme conditions or in urban settings. Now I have 50 people and their families dependent on every decision I make for their livelihood. I'm looking for the end of the rainbow!

T1nah this is starting to feel a little bit goady now.

You asked people to explain why their jobs are stressful. They have and you’re skimming the posts with everyone going on about their stressy jobs. Why ask a question? You don’t care about the answers.

At least try and have a little bit of empathy for others. People have taken their time to reply to you, and you’re sitting there sneering. It costs nothing to be kind, try it.

Nope - I'm skimming the posts with everyone going on about their stressy jobs.

I dont have a stressful job

But i was going to post about some close family

There is obviously no need to bother looking at your comment above

Very rude

I'm a HCP, frontline NHS (trauma). It can be very stressful at times. The responsibility is huge, if I muck up someone suffers.

My job is high pressure, but not stressful as such. When I finish at 5pm I go home and that's that! I don't think about work or do any work. I made that very clear during my interview.

My work was so stressful that I had major burnout.

Midwife here. If you don’t find your job stressful have a shiny medal. I’d love a less mentally and physically draining job but I do live for those odd moments where things are brilliant and lovely.

@Prequelle you are welcome :-) there are many areas in nursing that I could never work. Hats off to those working in elderly dementia care or on a stroke unit. We all find our niche hopefully.

Lawyer here (in house) and yes it's stressful.

The hours, the travel and complex issues and signing off payments for millions is stressful and does keep me awake at night (sometimes).

I'm regularly awake and working at 6am or on a 6am train going somewhere and 60 -70 hours a week is fairly standard.

But it is challenging and interesting and I am never ever bored.

I “work with the public” regularly screamed and sworn at, called every name under the sun, commercial pressures from bosses. I don’t find it stressful, I’m not paid enough to stress. My colleague is awake at nights worrying about it. I thought my child was going to die early this year, after the stress of waiting outside the operating theatre nothing will ever be that stressful. I don’t part of my soul that allows me to react to a man telling me he’d break my legs yesterday for ruining his life.
I’d not recommend it as a stress busting strategy though.

So the op basically asks a goady question but can't be arsed reading the answers?
Lovely

I wonder if jobs have always been stressful? Or stressful in a different way.

I’m sure working down a coal mine was stressful. Or a Victorian mill. Not so long ago, if you had a standard office job you could work 9-5 and then go home and forget about it. No mobile phones or laptops or being contactable.

I also think the general public have got ruder over the years and harder to deal with. You probably wouldn’t encounter “clients” threatening to break your legs or swearing at you at one time. My mum used to work in a bank many years ago as a cashier. Never had any issues. My grandma was a nurse many years ago. She can’t recall any abusive patients / relatives.

Solicitor here and it is a very stressful professional. One of the problems with law is most people only need a solicitor at the worst/most stressful times in their lives.

Long hours and a lot of time worrying that what you have done is not good enough (miss something and you could end up with a negligence claim, big mess up and you face being stuck off).

The problem is people have different levels - I have a very stressful job, but for the most part cope well with the stress (there are moments). One of the typists here goes on about how stressful her job is, but comparatively she does not have a stressful job.

From the outside, working in retail would not seem like a very stressful job (redundancy risk aside), but I can imagine it is hellishly stressful around Christmas and I would not want that job.

I always thought that working on a beauty counter like Clinique in John Lewis seems like a low stress job. Something I could do part-time.

Prepared for a beauty sales advisor to come along and tell me how stressful their job is now!

Where I work some play the I'm more stressed than you Top Trumps game - and it's interesting that the amount of stress experienced/perceived isn't necessarily correlated with workload/type of workload

For me as I get older and have less resilient physical and mental resources the more I find it difficult to sustain the pace of work which is stressful. No one seems to factor in that we have more stressful workplaces containing an ageing workforce who will be working into their late 60's

My job isn't at all stressful which is wonderful after 12 years of running a business with my ex, the failure of the business, bankruptcy and homelessness with 2 teenage kids.
I love my job ... I work with children in a boarding school environment and we have a lots of fun or as the lads put it "shits and giggles" ... I couldn't be happier! xx

My job (editor for scientific journal) isn't stressful. It has an element of pressure but it's one a like (makes me feel my job is important) , is entirely manageable and actually suits my nature.

However, I am doing a course of study related to my work and the deadline for an assessment is tomorrow. I AM STUCK and VERY STRESSED so wasting time on MN
This is not a usual state of affairs thank goodness.

What is stressful is trying to sort out childcare for my younger son when I go to conferences abroad. I am single parent.

I see far less posts from people with stressful jobs than I do from posters who are, apparently, “baffled” by fairly mundane and simple concepts.