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UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: Nov 17 2009 03:47 pm

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/pf/0910/gallery.stressful_jobs/index.html

And to think, I'm now working in one of those fields.

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

I worked at Papa Johns in a college town

You want to talk about stressful, 2 AM on a Friday night...you WILL be busy.

I was the only person there who DIDN'T chain smoke

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After reading that, I find it ironic that my dad is a minister and my mom was a high school teacher. It makes sense though...any social network where you want to help people usually pays poorly and those people treat you like shit.

Posted: Nov 17 2009 06:08 pm

I laughed at the picture for number 6. Is the caption referring to gym memberships, or her huge boobs?

And if this was Canadian, they'd have Tim Horton's on the list. If you leave that place, it's because you quit or got fired because you stopped carring. $8 an hour to deal with assholes you treat you like worthless shit because they haven't had their coffee yet is not worth any amount of money. Working night shift at 7-11 in the ghetto part of town is less stressful.

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Love it, the first one is a social worker. My wife has that pleasure and complains non stop about it.

Posted: Nov 17 2009 07:25 pm

That is a fairly predictable list and not much surprise really. Any job that has strict deadlines or is in a therapeutic role will be pretty stressful. Doing anything under a deadline is hard as shit, and no one really likes to listen to people dump their problems on them all day, or see the ills of society constantly.

My dad is a registered nurse in charge of the trauma floor at a large hospital in Sacramento, and I don't know how he handles that shit for 12 hours a day. Basically he mostly takes care of teenagers who get mangled in car accidents, or gang bangers who get shot and stabbed. It pays pretty well though, so maybe that's enough to deal with it.

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I mentioned this to my dad and he chuckled, since after 34 years of being a pastor...he isn't stressed about much any more. Early on, it was difficult since he got fucked over by people, but over time he learned how to read people and how to meet their demands without going overboard, and learned how to handle situations when they were rough. He still has trouble from time to time, there was a man last week he visited in Nebraska, who is basically going to die if he doesn't get a heart transplant. He's fairly young and has teenage children, so it's really sad. My dad said it's difficult to pray for something like that, since praying for a heart transplant, is basically praying for someone else to die. Sometimes, I wonder how my dad is able to coupe with all the sad things he's surrounded with, outside of the doctors, he is someone's last hope.

Posted: Nov 17 2009 09:47 pm

Ross Rifle wrote:

I laughed at the picture for number 6. Is the caption referring to gym memberships, or her huge boobs?

And if this was Canadian, they'd have Tim Horton's on the list. If you leave that place, it's because you quit or got fired because you stopped carring. $8 an hour to deal with assholes you treat you like worthless shit because they haven't had their coffee yet is not worth any amount of money. Working night shift at 7-11 in the ghetto part of town is less stressful.

I may not be in Canada, but there are some Tim Horton's around here in Maine, and I can completely believe that. I've never worked there, but every time I go in there, especially in the morning to the place is so unbelievably busy you can't move, I can't imagine working in there for $8. Tim Horton's blows away Dunkin' Donuts in terms of customers around here.

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...we don't even have Dunkin' Donuts Sad

One reason I hate Iowa...no good restaurants/joints

Posted: Nov 17 2009 09:51 pm

Shout out to high school teachers! W00t!

I so appreciate the fact they mentioned dealing with parents. At least 90% of the time they are way worse than anything kids throw at us.

Posted: Nov 17 2009 09:58 pm

My Dad is a social worker and agrees with this list.

Posted: Nov 17 2009 09:58 pm

Yeah, Tim's has expanded out to the States quite a bit. Good to see they're keeping up their policies south of the border Rolling Eyes

UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: Nov 17 2009 11:51 pm

Fast food jobs are definitely low-paying and high-stress, but very few people make careers out of them (and the ones who do actually can make decent money, from what I hear)

Posted: Nov 18 2009 12:01 am

UsaSatsui wrote:

Fast food jobs are definitely low-paying and high-stress, but very few people make careers out of them (and the ones who do actually can make decent money, from what I hear)

yeah, but you have to work a million hours a week. same as working at gas stations, if you go up to management, you can make some cash, but you have to put in quite a bit of hours.

my boss at circle k would work easily 100+ hours a week

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username wrote:

my boss at circle k would work easily 100+ hours a week

Did he have a bed in the back?

Posted: Nov 18 2009 12:54 am

Holy shit, it's real life Apu!

Posted: Nov 18 2009 12:59 am

Call center agent isn't on that list? What the fuck, I make like halfish of most of those pays. Mad

Posted: Nov 18 2009 01:11 am

dood, he would be in there from 6am to like 9pm. it was ridiculous. of course he would try to sell it by saying he was making a ton of cash etc etc, but it wasnt worth it imo. i think i made more money than he did working for qwest communications. and only working 40 hours per week

Posted: Nov 18 2009 09:11 am

GPFontaine wrote:

Love it, the first one is a social worker. My wife has that pleasure and complains non stop about it.

My wife is also a social worker, she went from making 40k as a Child Protective Investigator to 12 an hour working with "special" people. She couldnt take the stress and I couldnt take watching her do it either. I'm glad to see the military is such a stress free and high paying job. Thanks CNN! I will never complain again.

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username wrote:

dood, he would be in there from 6am to like 9pm. it was ridiculous. of course he would try to sell it by saying he was making a ton of cash etc etc, but it wasnt worth it imo. i think i made more money than he did working for qwest communications. and only working 40 hours per week

Yeah, that's ridiculous. I never want to have a job that runs my life like that.

Posted: Nov 18 2009 10:23 am

How can small business owner not be on this list? If you don't excel, you don't get paid. I can't bring myself to feel bad for people and their jobs. A lot of jobs suck, no one forces you to take the one that you take either.

If people took half the time they spent bitching about it and used the time to be productive, they would be much better off.

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Rydog wrote:

How can small business owner not be on this list?

Probably because small business owner is such a small fraction anymore these days.

I remember when I was a kid, the area I lived in THRIVED with small business...then fucking Wal-Mart came in and everything closed up. Real sad.

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they mentioned assisited living

I am probabaly going to work at one of those places over the summer

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It's not that bad really...it's just depressing

Posted: Nov 18 2009 11:37 am

and small business owners dont have to worry about BS hours or time cards or bosses. and usually they are family run.

the barber i go to, owns his own shop, and he seems so stress free.

UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: Nov 18 2009 11:51 am

Assisted living isn't bad or depressing, but it's certainly high stress (that's what I do now).