Those of you who are not stressed in your jobs

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What do you do?

I’ve worked as a solicitor and it can be so stressful it takes over your life.

thinking career change here! Who’s happy in their jobs?!

HR Manager for many years but re-trained as an artisan baker. My brain has never been so relaxed but my body is knackered. No regrets.

Work with racing greyhounds. Done it for 23 years and love it 🐕

I do events for a local authority. I don’t have enough resources or support and am permanently stressed. Waking up at 5am wanting to be sick levels. Looking for a new job as this is not sustainable.

Content designer at a charity - used to work in book publishing, what I do now is so much easier, and much better pay!

Also wanted to add this line of work can certainly be stressful but I’m at a lower grade so I don’t have that level of responsibility!

A registered nurse in a lovely care home. Well staffed ,hard work ,happy residents and staff !

I'm an Auditor. My job can be very stressful on occasions but stress is all relative, so what one person might perceive as stressful may not be perceived to be by someone else - and vv.

I'm really trying not to get stressed and sometimes actually telling myself I'm fine, and that stress is a mindset, does sometimes help.

Law. I love my job and im very lucky with the family friendly policy

Public sector quasi legal quite specialist role, I’ve been in it for 15 years.

Very rarely stressful, no one will drop dead if I make a mistake. Good colleagues, good conditions, sometimes I’m amazed by my good luck, and I have time to do my hobbies and run a home.

On the other hand, I’ve maxxed out my achievable salary at 46. it’s not huge for the south east, and there isn’t any obvious appealing pathway.

Are you currently working as a solicitor? How many years PQE?

Do you find the area of law interesting?Do you like your firm?

If yes to the above you might want to look into becoming a PSL/ Knowledge Lawyer. I make that move and have never looked back, it has all the good bits and leaves the stressful bits to other people.

Used to be a lawyer, went into information security and data protection. More entertaining, fewer hours, definitely better paid per hour actually worked.

I work a lot with in house legal teams and also recommend that for much better work/life/stress balance.

Admin for a union, I absolutely love it. Really well paid, good amount of leave and other perks, no one breathing down my neck, left to my own devices and as long as deadlines are met I can basically balance my working hours as I please. 4 days wfh and an easy going but very focussed boss. Lovely mix of colleagues, great career progression and development opportunities if i was interested (I’m not!).
Left the classroom a couple of years ago and haven’t looked back.
Very varied, interesting strands to the job. It’s great, I switch my laptop off at the end of the day and genuinely don’t think about my job again until I log on again the next day. Bliss!

Public Procurement - great flexibility, work/life balance and an be progressed very quickly.

It can be often busy with lack of specialist staff but overall it’s very enjoyable and every procurement team I have worked in have been a great bunch of people.

I have been where you are and it’s awful feeling stressed with work and the dread of a new day/week. You are clearly an intelligent person so I’m sure there is something else you can transfer skills to.

I’m a solicitor but now work for a local authority after 20 years in private practice. No external clients or time recording or billing targets. Actually feel like I’m making a difference. Nice colleagues, mainly wfh. Been a very positive move.

I work for a charity. Very flexible, lovely people and work I genuinely enjoy.

I'm a solicitor and have much less job stress since I moved in house. so much better!

Private practice law is a massively flawed model, from the perspective of the individual. A lot of people who think they find it OK actually have no idea what they are putting up with!

I had a very illuminating conversation the other day with a very senior male partner who is jacking it all in as he is literally seeing people his age (mid fifties) dropping dead around him. He’s the last person you’d expect to see that light. Writing is well and truly on the wall for the old work model I think.

Agree with this. I did a secondment in house and it was 9-5, nice steady work. Some challenging issues but really good pace, and didn’t have to worry about all the extras like time recording, billing and BD. If anything it was too low stress.