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Posted: Nov 18 2009 12:10 pm

username wrote:

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.

The hours are BS..just because a small business is open 8am-4pm, doesn't mean those are the hours. AND you don't get paid unless there is action, I bet you would be a little stressed out if you only got paid if your phone was ringing.

Posted: Nov 18 2009 01:15 pm

I think barber's have it easier than most small businesses though. I mean, everyone needs their haircut, and in a recession, are you more likely to pay $10 at the barber or $40 at a salon for a trim?

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

I think you are more likely to get your wife to cut it. Like this guy.

Posted: Nov 18 2009 01:35 pm

Which guy?

Posted: Nov 18 2009 01:44 pm

Himself

Banned Joined: Sep 13 2008 Posts: 3129

UsaSatsui wrote:

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

They need a house keeper at the one near where i live.

its been there for a while and they still need one. I'm just hoping it stays that way until my summer vacation

Posted: Nov 18 2009 08:29 pm

Ooh, be prepared for some hard fucking work there Hacker. Better pay though.

Posted: Nov 18 2009 09:37 pm

List fails for not including ghostbusters.

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

I think Louis Tulley had it worse than Venkman

Especially given that he locked himself out constantly, typical behavior of someone who is stressed out about their job. Sure he was an accountant, but I think they don't make THAT much money, especially in Tully's case...I mean if he can't close the deal with Dana...what makes you think he was able to do the same with other people's finances?

Posted: Nov 18 2009 09:48 pm

no plumber? havent they seen all the crap mario has to go thru?!

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

username wrote:

no plumber? havent they seen all the crap mario has to go thru?!

That's his personal choice. He likes being cockteased after putting his life in danger. Besides, when was the last time you ever saw Mario doing any actual work?

Title: Cat of Ulthar Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 93

All of those with the exception of teacher are at least what I would call decent jobs.

I mean, at least they're not fast food or factory, the latter of which I have worked.

Posted: Nov 19 2009 07:17 am

Fast food and mindless factory drone aren't stressful jobs though. They suck, for sure, but they aren't all the stressful.

Title: Cat of Ulthar Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 93

Oh, yes they are. Unless you've ever worked one before, you haven't the slightest idea of the nutjobs they have you work alongside. One might think that just because you're a "drone" that you go in there just to stand around like a dumbass* and collect a paycheck (which some admittedly do, see dumbasses above), but they are VERY stressful jobs to those who go in there to work really hard and depend on that job to support themselves and their families.

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

When I worked at Papa John's, yeah...there was a lot of stressful situations, especially when your boss was breathing down your neck. I wasn't in a position to quit, since getting a job in that area was hard enough as it was and I was locked into my lease which would've been hard to sublease. There were many days where I went home pissed off about the events that went on at work.

Posted: Nov 19 2009 10:01 am

Any job that involves customer service, be it face to face, or over the phone / internet, is HIGHLY STRESSFUL, due to the idiotic and downright childish nature of today's modern consumers. Whip it. Whip it good.

Posted: Nov 19 2009 11:37 am

Can we agree that hard work and stressful work aren't the same?

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

Rydog wrote:

Can we agree that hard work and stressful work aren't the same?

Depends on if the hard work causes stress

But I do think that things like being like a highway cop can be hard, but there's hardly any stress in that particular case since you have a large area of freedom.

Posted: Nov 19 2009 04:19 pm

Yeah, I've worked fast food and in a meat packing plant, and neither of those were difficult (in fact it was monkey's work for the most part), but they were both the most stressful jobs I have ever worked.

Posted: Nov 20 2009 08:22 am

Rydog wrote:

Can we agree that hard work and stressful work aren't the same?

Yeah, you guys are confusing "stressful" with "Shitty fucking job." They aren't the same thing.

I worked at McDonald's in a management role for 2 years, and not once did I consider that stressful. Hectic at times, and hard work when it's busy, but stressful? No. Same thing when I was a chef at one of the busiest restaurants in Sacramento. Damn hard work, but not stressful. I even worked Tech Support for a few months and it was one of the shittiest jobs I'd ever witnessed because of how many idiots call up, and how boring the job is. But not at all stressful. I was never worried about keeping the job, or paying my bills. I've worked customer service jobs almost my whole life, and none were all that stressful.

Stress comes from needing to hit strict deadlines that determine whether or not you have a job at all tomorrow, or being forced to create a product out of nothing that people actually want to see (like writing for a large internet site) so you can pay your bills that month. If you don't write something great that week, you don't get paid, and thus can't buy food. That's stress.
It can also come from taking care of terminally ill or mentally ill people day in and day out, and witnessing the futility of life constantly. It can have such a negative impact on your health, that that can be considered stress too.

Compared to that, how is working a 9-5 monkey job at a meat packing plant at all stressful? You go in, do your menial work, get a paycheck, and go home.

Posted: Nov 20 2009 12:45 pm

K, guess I should explain my specific scenario with Vantage Foods...

I hated that place. And it wasn't even the work. It was cold as fuck, and god-damn boring, but it was an easy paycheck. On the surface. The stressful thing about that job was the people, and the atmosphere. At first I thought it was sitting alone at lunch, but it was sitting alone at a table full of people. And learning that these people who never made the effort to talk to me, talked behind my back. Even one of my supervisors did it. I can't even remember what she told on me for, but she did. It was just immature and childish.

The main problem was that I was entering a serious bout of depression at the time, and nothing fuels thoughts of suicide more than being surrounds by bloody animal chunks with people who don't even know you exist. So yeah, that's why that job was stressful.

Posted: Nov 21 2009 01:00 am

Ross Rifle wrote:

Yeah, I've worked fast food and in a meat packing plant, and neither of those were difficult (in fact it was monkey's work for the most part), but they were both the most stressful jobs I have ever worked.

QFT.

Burger King is not really a hard job. It's not fulfilling, the pay sucks, and there's pretty much no room for advancement (as the Nepo-Lock Glass Ceiling™ is firmly installed in my restaurant) but it's also not hard. But damned if it isn't one of the most stressful jobs I've ever worked.

Dealing with shitty customers who think they're head and shoulders above you and that you only exist to prop them up is really agitating. Also, if there's a mess-up (which happens, especially if it's extremely busy), well, they'll start yelling and swearing up a storm, and blaming YOU for their inconvenience, even when it clearly wasn't your fault. Never mind the people in drive-thru who either a) don't speak English or b) have no idea how to order their damn food. There's been a few times where I've gotten so agitated by rude, incoherent customers in drive-thru to the point where I punched a wall, slammed down my headset and had to be sent to the manager's office to cool down. So, needless to say, this job IS stressful.

Banned Joined: Oct 09 2009 Posts: 51

Social Workers are fat loser who tell people if they are fit parents

Events cowardinaters just manage the things that is going to occur. Look at mode agencies and College councilers.

Polic jobs is a public job. People just need to do there job.

News Reporters are Newspaper monkies. If one of them get gang banged for prying into a countries business who cares. Like thos American Chinese, that think they could fit in with the Koreans.

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People who call you on the phone is called a telmarketer.

People who work in a FUNDRAISER and bitch needs to get a life.

Photographer, person who cares for Elderly, Minister needs to shut the aduck up.

Therapists needs to die

A Curator gets bonus points for working in a museu,.

TV Producer needs to shut up

Substance abuse conciler needs a life

Teacher.........hmmm sit around looking a grades. I got an English Teacher who does everything from a Dummies book.....

Posted: Nov 21 2009 08:25 am

Don't try to be edgy, or funny RegalSoul. You're not very good at it.

Title: Cat of Ulthar Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 93

Chi and Ross are right.

Just because the work isn't hard to comprehend or perform doesn't mean that you can't get stressed and/or fired from a job like that; you are considered the most expendable at places like that, and as Ross pointed out, the atmosphere can be quite daunting at times.