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Posted by Cubanoloco
10th Jan 2012
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Edited by alora phillips
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teachers
Personally, I would add being a high school biology teacher in an ultra conservative school in the south (conservative by southern standards) somewhere in the mix... definitely not at the top, but maybe between 7 or 8 and 15 (had the list been extended that far).
Posted by ruthbland
3rd Jan 2012
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Hang in there, Ruth!
At least firefighters get to put out the fires! Feel free to expand on your situation, i.e. what, if anything, reaches your students who are steeped in a tradition of conforming anti-evolution dogma? And what about the "sandwich" effect of pressures from above to tone down data driven conclusions?
It seems that geography and physical/earth science teachers are probably providing you with good company with all the FUD being thrown up to deny humanity's role in the changing climate going on as well....
It seems that geography and physical/earth science teachers are probably providing you with good company with all the FUD being thrown up to deny humanity's role in the changing climate going on as well....
Posted by klassman6
4th Jan 2012
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Job Stress
I wonder where Joe Mckendrick's job figures in the list.
Posted by kitemanmusic
4th Jan 2012
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LOL
Depends on what day it is, I guess....
Posted by Joe McKendrick
4th Jan 2012
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Readers -- Any jobs missed in these lists?
Any highly stressful jobs not mentioned yet?
Posted by Joe McKendrick
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Any jobs missed in these lists?
Uhh, what about air traffic controllers? They used to always appear on these lists...
Posted by lmarks@...
4th Jan 2012
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Not anymore
Now they get to take naps on the job. Lowers the stress level tremendously 
Posted by jred
11th Jan 2012
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Nurses! Physicians!
Come on, we should be right below pilots and above the Generals...
Posted by sinnerarity
28th Apr 2012
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Surprised
I'm actually surprised teachers aren't on the list, especially these days.
1) Hours: They tend to work far more than 40-hour weeks when you include grading, setting lesson plans, etc.
2) Lack of control/power: Teachers are the ones to teach our kids, and when the kids are in school, should be the ones to correct/scold/punish them. We now have teachers with kids that I would send to prison right after graduation (if not before) and because of the scare of parents who will flip-out, a kid crying 'pedophile' or some other BS, are hamstrung in their jobs.
3) Speaking of hamstrung. 'No child left behind' has turned in to 'no child may get ahead'. Instead of programs better designed to catch kids up to what the average SHOULD be or even to the slightly-better than average performers. Teachers have to teach, more often than not, to the lowest common denominator.
4) Keeping up with skills: Relating to #1; Teachers are swamped with what their jobs require by default. Add in iPads, Laptops, and other tech-devices that they don't know (and many may not want to know, or are technophobes), They don't have the time to learn them, not and have lives outside of school often.
I could go on, but the pressure from all sides, watching a grades and scores on those 'lovely' standardized tests drop, and other issues (and by the way, I've seen most of a school year wasted on just passing the damned standardized tests, rather than focusing on useful knowledge), they are stressed and overworked. For reference, while I've never been a teacher in a school system; I HAVE been IT in school districts and have seen first hand what they deal with on a day to day basis
1) Hours: They tend to work far more than 40-hour weeks when you include grading, setting lesson plans, etc.
2) Lack of control/power: Teachers are the ones to teach our kids, and when the kids are in school, should be the ones to correct/scold/punish them. We now have teachers with kids that I would send to prison right after graduation (if not before) and because of the scare of parents who will flip-out, a kid crying 'pedophile' or some other BS, are hamstrung in their jobs.
3) Speaking of hamstrung. 'No child left behind' has turned in to 'no child may get ahead'. Instead of programs better designed to catch kids up to what the average SHOULD be or even to the slightly-better than average performers. Teachers have to teach, more often than not, to the lowest common denominator.
4) Keeping up with skills: Relating to #1; Teachers are swamped with what their jobs require by default. Add in iPads, Laptops, and other tech-devices that they don't know (and many may not want to know, or are technophobes), They don't have the time to learn them, not and have lives outside of school often.
I could go on, but the pressure from all sides, watching a grades and scores on those 'lovely' standardized tests drop, and other issues (and by the way, I've seen most of a school year wasted on just passing the damned standardized tests, rather than focusing on useful knowledge), they are stressed and overworked. For reference, while I've never been a teacher in a school system; I HAVE been IT in school districts and have seen first hand what they deal with on a day to day basis
Posted by jonrosen
30th Nov
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Loggers
I am a 19 year old girl who gave up logging to join the Navy. I ran a skidder for a year after High School at my families logging company. I ran it over the hill a few times due to slick small roads on the side of a Mountain after rains or snow melts off, and my skidder weighed 46,000 lbs. I also had a cable skidder which means I had to go down the hill with cable and choker chains and hook up individual logs, then run back up the hill to keep production up. Timber cutters have to constantly stay alert and watch for broken branches in the tops of trees, wind (a poof of wind could fall them the wrong way if it catches the top), and they will sometimes get caught in other trees and fall later. Dozer men have it easy, and so do Knuckleboom loader men as long as they know how to run it right. Unexperience loader men could easily take out the front glass with the butt of a log. I live in Southwest Virginia and there are tons of gaswell lines going everywhere! We just cover them up with a few feet of dirt and carry on with our day, but I hated crossing them. I have seen quite a bit of copperheads in my day, and I stayed ate up with poison oak. If you arent on equipment then you also have to watch out for trees falling on you, I have had a few close calls. My stepdad cuts timber, and he has broke so many things due to stuff falling out of trees and such. One time he even cut his leg with the power saw to get away from something and his muscle literally fell out of his leg. Axe men dont have nothing on the way loggers work around here, and its kind of devastating because people have no idea of what we really go through. I was just on the job today, in the bitter cold thanking God that I broadened my horizons. But I am proud to say that my Daddy has provided everything that we have by the sweat of his brow. Its a 24 hr job for him when trucks or equipment break down, and you can count on it.
Posted by alora phillips
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Some sales positions
Sales, especially straight commission sales, can be stressful. If the sale is not made, there is no paycheck.
Posted by GeoffMichael
5th Jan 2012
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Jobs
Anytime you have a job and have to be in place to perform it, either because you have a boss or to accommodate customers/clientele as a business owner, then you have a lot of stress. Your "most stressful" and "less stressful" is not a good measureable yardstick. Everyone who works at any job has a lot of stress everyday i.e., to stay employed, stay in good health and live in a good environment that is safe and secure. Everyone at every job plays a part in allowing our lives to be better; even considering the stress factor!
Posted by Rockpat
6th Jan 2012
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you really want to know about stressful jobs
Become a NYC Correction Officer at Rikers Island. You will quit the job within 30 days.
Posted by edwin1234
8th Jan 2012
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Most stressful jobs
Talk about stressful jobs!Try being a Corrections Officer for 25 years dealing with the "best"of society in The Miami-Dade County Jail facilities always outnumbered 60 to 1. That is 60 inmates to 1 officer and "they"have all the "shanks" and we have to live with them and we do not have anything to defend ourselves with, only our hands and wits. No wonder I have High blood pressure,etc for life, at least a Police Officer has a weapon to defend himself with and he does not have to deal with the arrested person again and we can not have weapons inside the jail with us. So I believe that our job is the most stressful ever!
Posted by Cubanoloco
10th Jan 2012
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North Korean astronaut
'nuff said.
Posted by dmm99
13th Jan 2012
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How about proof reader
It is Dietician not Dietition!!
Posted by Some guy_z
14th Jan 2012
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It is proofreader, not proof reader!
But thanks. "Dietition" was setting off alarm bells in my head.
Posted by dmm99
5th Nov
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one of the most stressful job
lawyer - thinking, solving, convincing,winning Ultimately you must win the case or have a win win deal enuf said!
Posted by pkim_246
18th Jul
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This week:
Election officials, and candidates.
Posted by dmm99
5th Nov
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Can't agree on this one
Sorry, but even if they are stressed, I couldn't care less. Let them earn the paycheck they get from us, the people they are supposed to care about.
Posted by jonrosen
30th Nov
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top 10 highest stressful jobs
nursing should be included. 12 hour days not to mention up at 5am home at 8pm. this includes patients who act like you owe them. 95% are sooner care (free healthcare paid for by federal government) oh yea, i am part of the federal government. i pay my taxes(which have gone up) the government pays for these peoples FREE healthcare to the hospitals who pay their ER nurses and multiple other staff. Essential, we as nurses pay ourself to work. we take care severe trauma cases, life and death situations, heart attack victims, people who really need us. then you have rude disrespectful, buligerent, people who are whining for narcotics for a toothach because th
Posted by livedunham
9th Dec