Top 10 Most Stressful Jobs Top 10 Least Stressful Jobs
1. Inner City HS Teacher 1. Forester
2. Police Officer 2. Bookbinder
3. Miner 3. Telephone Line Worker
4. Air Traffic Controller 4. Toolmaker
5. Medical Intern 5. Millwright
6. Stockbroker 6. Repairperson
7. Journalist 7. Civil Engineer
8. Customer Service/
8. Therapist
Complaint Worker
9. Secretary 9. Natural Scientist
10. Waiter 10. Sales Representative
According to Health Magazine
http://www.cdc.gov/ulcer/myth.htm
MOST STRESSFUL JOBS
U.S. President
Firefighter
Senior Corporate Executive
Indy Class Race Car Driver
Taxi Driver
Surgeon
Astronaut
Police Officer
NFL Football Player
Air Traffic Controller
http://www.allstressedup.com/strsjobs.html
Here are this year's most and least stressful cities, chosen from the 100 largest metro
areas.
Top 10 Most Stressful Cities Top 10 Low-Stress Cities
1. Tacoma, WA
2. Miami, FL 1. Albany-Schenectady, NY
3. New Orleans, LA 2. Harrisburg-Lebanon-Carlisle, PA
4. Las Vegas, NV 3. Orange County, CA
5. New York, NY 4. Nassau-Suffolk, NY
6. Portland-Vancouver, OR-WA 5. Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI
7. Mobile, AL 6. Ann Arbor, MI
8. Stockton-Lodi, CA 7. Omaha, NE-IA
9. Detroit, MI 8. Norfolk, VA-Virginia Beach, VA-NC
10. Dallas, TX 9. Honolulu, HI
10. Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC
"Most of the top-ten stress cities are grappling with high unemployment," said Bert
Sperling, president of Sperling's BestPlaces. "It affects the entire community, whether
you have a job or not. Rising unemployment has been tied to increased crime, and
declining tax revenues force reductions in social services that affect young and old alike."
http://houseandhome.msn.com/Move/TheMostandLeastStressfulCities.aspx
Top ten most stressful jobs in the UK based on physical and psychological stress, and job
dissatisfaction (Source - *Source - Robertson Cooper 01/06/2004)
Physical health Psychological health
1 Ambulance 1 Social services, providing care
2 Teachers 2 Teachers
3 Social services, providing care 3 Fire brigade
4 Customer services (call centre) 4 Ambulance
5 Bar staff 5 Vets
6 Prison officer 6 Lecturers
7 Management (private sector) 7 Clerical and admin
8 Clerical and admin 8 Management (private sector)
9 Police 9 Prison officer
10 Teaching assistant 10 Research (academic)
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Top 10 time management tips
• say no to extra tasks
• allow 10% of your time for unforeseen tasks
• don't take responsibility for other people's workload
• start a job only when you have time to finish it
• delegate, delegate, delegate
• be brief on the phone
• don't waste time chatting in the corridor
• start meetings on time
• avoid time wasters
• prioritise, prioritise, prioritise.
http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/0-9/4health/stress/saw_manage.html
Britain's 20 most stressful jobs*
1. Prison officer 8. Fire fighting 16. Linguist
2. Police 9. Dentistry 17. Film producer
3. Social work 10. Mining 18. Professional
4. Teaching 11. Armed forces sport
5. Ambulance 12. Construction 19. Catering/hotel
service 13. Management industry
6. Nursing 14. Acting 20. Public transport
7. Medicine 15. Journalism
*Based on research assessing 104 jobs, by Professor Cary Cooper at the University of
Manchester's Institute of Science and Technology, in 1997.
getting worse
More than 60% of the 104 jobs assessed by Professor Cooper's team showed increases in
stress levels from 1985 to 1997. The top 20 most stressful jobs scored an average 6.5 out
of 10 on the stress scale. Prison officers scored 8.8 – up from 7.5 in 1985. Librarians, on
the other hand, scored only 3.3 – up from 2.0 in 1985.
http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/0-9/4health/stress/saw_work.html
In a national survey released today, nearly half of Americans surveyed listed New York (46%) as
the country's most stressed out city, followed by Washington, DC (27%).
Among respondents' least stressed out cities were Boston and Philadelphia (1%) and Cleveland
and Pittsburgh with less than one percent of the vote.
http://www.tristatenews.com/cgi-
bin/articles/exec/view.pl?archive=2&num=138&printer=1
Determinants of current job tenure: a cross country comparison
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~pns2/tenozuknew.pdf
A comparative study of perceived job stressor sources and job strain in American and
Iranian managers
http://ppv.ovid.com/pt/re/apps/abstract.00011877-200207000-
00008.htm;jsessionid=Cpb8DBm6qtKBF0FMPEmKaGCiDwjz4iJAK2a2R7GQjI2fciEy
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Spector, Cooper et al. (2001) in their comparison of 24 countries found that at the country mean
level, collectivism was associated with externality in locus of control. Furthermore, countries in
which people were external tended to score high in job strains. Combining these findings with the
general control literature, we would expect that Iranians would perceive less control, leading to
the first hypothesis:
Hypothesis 1: Iranians will be more external in their work locus of control than Americans.
Because Iranians are more external than Americans, we would expect their perceptions of the
workplace and their strains to differ, leading to the second hypothesis:
Hypothesis 2: Iranians will perceive more stressors and experience more job strain than
Americans.
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“Stress is simply the adaptation of our bodies and minds to change; and change, as we noted, is
about the only constant left in the workplace.” Peter G. Hanson, M.D.
"Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche." Andrew Denton
http://www.stresslesscountry.com/stressquotes/index.html
No one dies from working too hard. But when people don't get any
recognition in their work, the stress of that lack of control can kill them.
- Barrie S. Greiff
http://imt.net/%7Erandolfi/StressQuotes.html
"Life Change Unit" Stress Ratings
Did you know any change - good or bad - means stress; and that the more intense the change is,
the greater its impact? A standard scale to rate change and its related stress impact has been
developed. Commonly referred to as the LCU Rating (or Life Change Unit Rating), here's what it
looks like:
Stressful Event LCU
Child leaving for college 28
Major change in eating habits 29
Vacation 29
Job promotion 31
Major change in sleeping habits 31
New romantic relationship 32
Breaking up 35
Troubles with co-workers 35
Changing jobs 38
Major change in living conditions 39
Major purchase 39
Troubles with boss 39
Major dental work 40
Injury or illness that hospitalized you or kept you in bed a week or more 42
Marital reconciliation 42
Accident 44
Marriage 50
Major change in health or behavior of family member 52
Miscarriage or abortion 53
Marital separation 56
Job demotion 57
Loan or mortgage foreclosure 57
Decreased income 60
Pregnancy 60
Divorce 62
Death of brother or sister 64
Getting fired 64
Death of parent 66
Death of spouse or child 105
Now that you are aware of some of the LCU ratings, exactly how much stress are you under? Are
you experiencing any symptoms?
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BEST WORKING
ENVIRONMENT:
1) Mathematician
2) Computer systems
analyst
3) Statistician
4) Hospital administrator
5) Historian
WORST WORKING
ENVIRONMENT:
246) Taxi driver
247) NFL football player
248) Race car driver
249) Firefighter
250) President of the United
States
BEST INCOME:
1) NBA basketball player
($1,495,986)
2) Major league baseball
player ($1,401,354)
3) NFL football player
($801,970)
4) Race car driver
($476,586)
5) Surgeon ($257,219)
http://departments.juniata.edu/csmath/topjobspage.htm WORST INCOME:
246) Maid ($15,210)
247) Waiter/waitress ($15,171)
248) Cashier ($14,278)
249) Child care worker
($14,250)
250) Dishwasher ($11,110)
LEAST STRESS:
1) Medical records
technician
2) Janitor
3) Forklift operator
4) Musical instrument
repairer
5) Florist
MOST STRESS:
246) Taxi driver
247) Race car driver
248) Senior corporate
executive
249) Firefighter
250) President of the United
States
The NIOSH report on the left is an excellent resource that cites the following:
• 40% of workers reported their job was very or extremely stressful;
• 25% view their jobs as the number one stressor in their lives;
• Three fourths of employees believe that workers have more on-the-job stress than
a generation ago;
• 29% of workers felt quite a bit or extremely stressed at work;
• 26 percent of workers said they were "often or very often burned out or stressed
by their work";
• Job stress is more strongly associated with health complaints than financial or
family problems.
http://www.stress.org/job.htm