all you cops do is moan about the stress in your job

[lax854]

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NOT EVEN IN THE MSN TOP 8 :D:rolleyes:;)
If you want to find a job that is free of stress, you're out of luck. Only characters in movies and on TV have jobs that don't cause occasional hair-pulling or high blood pressure. These are the same people who have huge apartments overlooking skylines and plenty of time to hang out with friends. Their jobs have unbelievably flexible hours.

In real life, however, every job you take, no matter how big or small, finds you stressed out once in awhile. Whether you're dealing with an endless line of customers, a demanding executive or an uncertain economy, anxiety will find you. It's just part of life.

According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, occupational stress originates from a variety of issues, including:

- Long hours with few or no breaks

- Employees unable to participate in the decision-making process

- Job insecurity and large amounts of impending change

- Physical danger

Some jobs have more stress than others. That's not to say they're bad jobs, they just require people who are strong enough to handle the increased stress that comes their way. Here are eight of them:

1. Retail Salespeople

Why: Jobs in sales require you to persuade customers to spend money. Customers don't necessarily want to spend money and even if they do, they have a variety of places to shop. Salespeople have to prove their merchandise is the best option. If that weren't stressful enough, retail compensation is often commission-based, which means your paycheck is tied to how much you sell.

What they earn: $24,530

2. Doctors and nurses

Why: Doctors and nurses deal with life and death on a regular basis, a pressure found in few occupations. They have to handle patients while accessing an encyclopedia of medical knowledge. Doctors and nurses who work in hospitals or clinics that don't keep regular business hours often work on little sleep and are on call even on days off. In recent years, doctors have also been forced to deal with an increase in malpractice lawsuits.

What they earn: Internal medicine physician: $166,420; Registered nurse: $62,480

3. Accountants

Why: Crunching numbers requires attention to detail that can make your eyes cross. Not only are you dealing with a client's finances, but you also have to take into account volumes of rules and regulations that change each year. Plus, you're expected to know about minute loopholes and read tiny print that nobody else does.

What they earn: $44,632

4. Teachers

Why: Elementary and high school teachers put up with a lot. Students aren't always easy to control or motivate. Parents who can't understand why their children aren't doing better often place the blame with teachers. And pressure to prepare students for standardized tests means they can't always stick to the lesson plans they'd prefer to teach.

What they earn: Elementary teacher: $43,421; High school teacher: $46,531

5. Firefighters

Why: When firefighters are on call, they've got to be ready to respond to emergencies that range from minor car accidents to huge explosions. They might go an entire shift with no emergency or they might get a call that keeps them out for hours. Perhaps most importantly, they're playing with fire, literally. That's stressful enough.

What they earn: $44,130

6. Farmers

Why: Agriculture requires constant attention, from waking up early to strenuous physical activity. That alone isn't stressful, but having no control over nature is. Droughts, floods, fires or other natural disasters can ruin months of hard work, and you can't do much about it.

What they earn: $23,508

7. Automotive assembly workers

Why: The automotive industry has always been volatile as manufacturers respond to the whims of consumers who want coupes one moment and SUVs the next. Add the pressure of assembling vehicles so that people who spend thousands of dollars can travel safely, and you've got a stressful job.

What they earn: $42,480

8. Stockbrokers

Why: You can feel a bit helpless working at a job that's at the mercy of the stock market and economy. When things are going great, you reap the rewards, but when the financial climate isn't so great or the future is uncertain, you have no choice but to ride it out. Plus, competition is high for these jobs.

What they earn: $61,151

firefighter....dont they just eat and sleep all day??????:confused:

[Adamantine]

interestingly enough, accountants are in there... LOLOL You gonna have pity on me now? LOLOLOL

You lot should be number one in this list of stressful jobs. Accounting is just learning how to focus and sit still for 4 -5 hours at a time...

[Ispbear]

Farmers? LMAO, And I guarantee the majority of them earn a lot more than 23G's a year, at least in my area.

[GoDirectly2Jail]

Farmers? LMAO, And I guarantee the majority of them earn a lot more than 23G's a year, at least in my area.

I think a lot of those salaries are bogus. Stockbroker only makes $61K? Riiight...

[Group9]

Watch the comedy movie Gunshy with Liam Neeson and Sandra Bullock. Neeson is a DEA agent having a nervous breakdown and stomach problems who meets Bullock at the hospital.

Neeson keeps going to group therapy sessions but won't open up. Finally, the other members, who have been talking about the stress of their office jobs gang up on Neeson to make him tell why he thinks he has so much stress.

Neeson finally gives in and tells them how he thinks it started during an undercover assignment where the drug dealers figured out he was a cop, shot the informant with him, then made him strip naked, and stuck a gun barrel up his ***. Then he says, the cover team came in and just killed everybody, and I just have been having a little trouble dealing with it all, he says. :D

Kind of put things in perspective.

[phantasm]

Where is air traffic controller?

[retdetsgt]

When they were building a 20 story federal courthouse next to our station, I was on the 13th floor and my window faced the construction. For several weeks, the crane was right outside my window and I would watch the operator walk out to the end of the crane like he was walking down the sidewalk. Only he had about a 6" wide walkway. He would lube the pulleys at the end and then walk back.

There is no way in hell I would trade jobs with that guy, no matter how much money he made.

That was true of a lot of the steelworkers I watched. The would walk along that steel and not clip on their safety harness until they got to their workstation. If fact, one guy was killed when he fell from about 10 stories.

[noelchabanel]

firefighter....dont they just eat and sleep all day??????:confused:

No, they also wash fire trucks. :D;)

[phantasm]

No, they also wash fire trucks. :D;)

and talk to girls.

[Group9]

When they were building a 20 story federal courthouse next to our station, I was on the 13th floor and my window faced the construction. For several weeks, the crane was right outside my window and I would watch the operator walk out to the end of the crane like he was walking down the sidewalk. Only he had about a 6" wide walkway. He would lube the pulleys at the end and then walk back.

There is no way in hell I would trade jobs with that guy, no matter how much money he made.

That was true of a lot of the steelworkers I watched. The would walk along that steel and not clip on their safety harness until they got to their workstation. If fact, one guy was killed when he fell from about 10 stories.

I worked construction jobs, including putting up buildings, to put myself through college. It was dangerous, but it was more because of the general demeanor of the people who worked there, rather than the nature of the job. Guys would come into work, so hungover they could barely walk, then climb onto an excavator and start digging a foot away from guys working in the hole.

I worked on a powerline construction crew one summer, and saw two guys get pretty badly electrocuted on the exact same wire two day in a row, because after the first one, all of the lineman argued about how it happened, and then we went home without anyone ever coming to a consensus on how it had. The next day, when it happened again, they acted like it was an act of God. OSHA was a joke back them, maybe it's better now.

If you had the same people working law enforcement, it would be ten times more dangerous than it is.

[retdetsgt]

If you had the same people working law enforcement, it would be ten times more dangerous than it is.

Well, we do have a lot of them in LE.

Cops gripe about fireman and frankly, I'd go up against a man with a gun anyday before I would go in a burning building.

I worked in a cotton gin when I was a senior in h.s. I worked 12 hour shifts on the weekend threw the fall. I don't think I ever saw a ginner over about 35 years old who's fingers were still their natural length. I suspect that gins are a lot safer now than they were then. There were huge pulleys 3-4' in diameter with 6" wide belts running at high speed and unprotected. If one of those belts broke, it would be all over for anyone within 30 ft. or more.

Kinda like riding a motorcycle, you probably won't have an accident until you get good at it. I've seen that with some cops, usually about the 4-5 year experience level. They think they know it all by then and have seen everything.

I never really suffered any stress to amount to anything from doing the job. I more or less enjoyed those risks. All my stress came from being judged on what I did today by what appears in the paper tomorrow.

[BP348]

When they were building a 20 story federal courthouse next to our station, I was on the 13th floor and my window faced the construction. For several weeks, the crane was right outside my window and I would watch the operator walk out to the end of the crane like he was walking down the sidewalk. Only he had about a 6" wide walkway. He would lube the pulleys at the end and then walk back.

There is no way in hell I would trade jobs with that guy, no matter how much money he made.

That was true of a lot of the steelworkers I watched. The would walk along that steel and not clip on their safety harness until they got to their workstation. If fact, one guy was killed when he fell from about 10 stories.

I grew up in a construction family.

Years ago my father was in a serious accident where he was working on a crane and while he had his arm inside working on the clutch somehow the cab rotated and ran over my father arm.. He was really lucky he didn't loose his arm. A few years later he told me that someone told him that the crane operator was either durnk or hungover (it was about 9AM) and fell a sleep while he was holding down the clutch.. When he fell asleep his foot sliped off the clutch and the accident happened. I think my father was right when he decided not to tell me the guy's name.

[noelchabanel]

and talk to girls.

Before I got on the volunteer fire dept, I had no idea this was an "unofficial benefit. "

Of course, I just ride on (and occasionally wash) the short bus. No burning buildings for me.

[phantasm]

Before I got on the volunteer fire dept, I had no idea this was an "unofficial benefit. "

Of course, I just ride on (and occasionally wash) the short bus. No burning buildings for me.

moreso for the paid departments in the big cities.