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- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -11/+85Porn star?
Boss: Make sure you have sex today!
Porn star: no problem! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+30Pssh, that's nothing.
Try spending an hour and a half trying to explain to your boss why he needs to stop using the password '1234' and see how you feel... - zweben, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28And my job.
Child portrait photographer. It's like parenting, except you get 3 new kids every 15 minutes, you have to make them smile and sit still while your face is in the camera focusing and adjusting, and you have to keep the real parents happy while they wait.
And your boss yells at you if you don't sell enough pictures. (I'm having a hard week, ok!?) - VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28Maybe IT Experts simply complain about their high-stress jobs more than anyone else.
- lazyrussian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24try explaining to your boss how to use copy &paste and that you CAN push CTRL & C at the SAME TIME without breaking the computer.
- Oakes, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27Hmm, it seems they forgot military combat and parenting...
- thoughtfulclown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20There are two reasons that its one of the most stressful positions in my opinion.
1) many IT people has no communication skills, so they can't communicate why what they are saying is right
2) even when they can explain it, people just don't listen.... because they think they are smarter than the guy who has gotten a degree for it. - skywake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19i was thinking that....
then i told my two sisters about the list (education & medicine peoples) and i completely understood the reason why IT is more stressful. Everyone thinks we are worth nothing. At least most of the other professions get praise from everyone else with the "i don't know how you can do that". I think the majority of the public think that people in IT just sit at their desks and twiddle their thumbs all day. - Dayz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24@gameguy43
Dont forget you actully have to not bust your load for 25+ min. - cody50, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19I wonder what the least stressfull profession is.
- GernBlanston, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19*****
- oOLiquidNightOo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14i used to have a guy that would download "FREE SCREENSAVERS!!!" .. drove me nuts. the guy always had some kind of trojan, virus or adware on his system. i finally said ***** and switched to the company to macs. i go in his office from time to time and STILL see .exe files downloaded to his desktop (that of course don't work).
- JFitzpatrick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"5. Education"
When I opened the link I thought to myself "If this list is worth anything at all, it will have education listed as a stressful profession." I wasn't dissapointed.
I don't find teaching to be stressful at all. You could put me in any classroom with no lesson plan and no prep time and I'd be just fine. I love the actual teaching part and it comes really naturally to me.
It is everything else related to teaching that is stressful as hell. The irrational demands made by administrators, parents, even the friggin' President. The complete lack of support from the community (city, state, and federal levels), the seemingly inability of the general public to understand the difficulties of working with 180 students a day (in batches of 30-40) when the majority of your students are abused and/or have emotional and academic problems.
Everyone that makes a ***** comment about being a teacher should have to teach in your average urban school for a month. You'll leave completely convinced that every kid in America is a miracle for having survived so long in the situations they are in. - GernBlanston, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I have to agree.
"Hey IT guy, my X software/computer/tech device was working before, then when you fixed X other software/computer/tech device issue it stopped working."
Seriously, as a SysAdmin myself, there is nothing that isn't your fault. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Damn it, I'm getting a degree in Information Systems right now. *rips hair out*
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Celeron:
Don't worry, you won't be able to find a job anyway.
Here's a secret: the reason universities and other educational organizations constantly advertise their computer classes and how there's supposedly a need to fill these jobs ("We need more women! We need more minorities!") is because they are a part of the education industry and make easy money from this. After they take your money and give you a piece of paper with shiny logos and fancy signatures, you realize just how ***** you are. - colonelmustard, on 10/12/2007, -12/+21I think you're not realizing how awesome it would feel to have thousands of people watch your dick and be like "WHY IS THAT NOT MINE".
- HonoredMule, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Dude you beat me to it...twas exactly what I was thinking.
- shitthisfook, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12The camera makes you hornier. It's so fun to be watched. =)
-edit: I think the least stressful job would be something like "digg user" or "web surfer". Imagine being paid to do that all day. - JFitzpatrick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I don't even know of a school with a 6 hour day.
"Having to send bad kids to the office?"
You've obviously never been in an urban school. We don't send bad kids to the office. We have security guards escort them there to keep them from destroying school property or hurting anyone on their way there.
In the last year alone I've witnessed student on student and student on teacher violence that would make you think you were watching a prison riot.
The only reason I don't have too many problems with students and their violent ways is that I've made it perfectly clear that I like living life without a head injury alot more than I like teaching. Once they know that you'll return the favor and break a chair over -their- head, they tend to be on better behavior :) - Arcadian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7No Air Traffic Controller? Totally inaccurate. Last I heard that's the job with the most suicides.
- boyter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8You missed the point. The reason IT is stressful is because you go in expection to preform a certain task. You then cant do it because everyone is complaining that X isnt working and it should. Its then time to go home.
Thats why its stressful. You take away others problems without being able to move onto your own. Thow in people who are non tech, and always want to blame you and you really dont feel good.
The worst thing about IT is nobody cares if the project was on time or everything is going well. When its not however everyone bitches. Even if you fix it in record time its still your fault because it went wrong in the first place.
Dont make comparisons between IT and Policing etc... At the end of the day the Police officer goes home having DONE his job. More often then not the IT professional dosnt. Not because they are lazy, but because there is a lot of distractions in the IT world. Probably why most of the people in IT I know are/were into substance abuse. - nesibus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Stress is what you make it. I worked at a Dell call center working on computers through other idiots at home. They gave us quotas and everything to meet, but in the end you just say ***** it. Cause you can only do so much, its not like a prision...you DO go home at the end of the day.
- zweben, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8@nesibus:
I pretty much did that today. My boss was bitching at me because I made one mistake that caused a $40 payment to be delayed one day and the store wasn't going to make quota. She threatened to 'write me up'.
I just looked at her and shrugged. I was doing my best and I made a mistake, if you want more than that, too bad. - spidoman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Air traffic controller?
- gameguy43, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7imagine being a student as a profession. unless youre teaching really little kids, you have to study what youre teaching, prepare a lesson plan, and grade papers and write report cards and comments. it's an incredibly wrong work day. And they DO put up with a LOT of ***** from students and their parents who think it's their job to give kids good grades. I truly admire my teachers, i would never want to be a teacher for a job. I love explaining things, but I would not be able to survive formal teaching, especially at a public school. I could see myself giving lectures and stuff on IT topics, though. but for now i'm trying to survive junior year of highschool...
- barbobot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"I believe I have the most stressful IT job there is... Help Desk Manager. Not only do I have to deal with users who don't even know how to hold the shift key for CAPS, but I have to deal with my employees who would rather surf the net all day than accomplish anything."
If your employees are bored, maybe they need something interesting to work on. Throw the some of them some higher level work, something that involves problems. You might just have a diamond in the rough. - zackr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I agree - a job is as stressful as you let it be. People would rather find scape goats than blame themselves (as a side note - this is why welfare buys votes so well). I work about 50 to 60 hours a week on my IT business and I have noticed that the source of my biggest problems are not deadlines, it's procrastination.
- diggduggjoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I am not sure that they cannot communicate, but they have a different language that the other office workers do not understand and more important have no desire to understand.
I will agree that the "deciders" (Got to love Bush!) do not want to understand, so IT has to solve problems with limited resources. When the ***** hits the fan, it will never be due to the "deciders" screwing up, but the IT staff failing to deliver. That is why my self-employment is so cool. I could use more money, but I have more voice with my small business clients. The have no egos and cede they have now clue what is right or wrong and defer to me more often.
Having your ass kicked for where the car ends up is very stressful when you are made to sit in the back seat. Unlimited liability with zero control. That could be the definition of stress. - mindcrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm sorry, but any list of "most stressful professions" that doesn't include 911 Dispatcher is completely out in left field. Having been a 911 dispatcher in a "past life" I'm convinced that dispatching has to be in the top 2-3 most stressful careers imaginable. You spend every day answering telephone calls from people going through all sorts of emergencies, trying to deal with *their* panic, enough to get the pertinent infomation from them, then you have to dispatch firefighers, EMTs, etc., probably using a semi-defective radio system installed by a low-bid contractor who paid more in kickbacks to the county officials than it cost them to build the system.
Then you have to deal with pagers that don't activate, fire chiefs calling in and complaining that their pagers didn't activate, while trying to keep track of which units have checked enroute, updating the CAD system, keeping track of whether or not mutal aid is required... all the while realizing that one mistake makes you a target for a high-visibility lawsuit by someone whose house just burned down.
Now throw in bored cops who have nothing better to do than run registration checks on every parked car they see, paranoid supervisors watching over your shoulder and critiquing everything you say and do... and for all of this you get paid next to nothing. Dispatching is a freaking nightmare job, especially in the smaller 911 centers where you don't have dedicated call-takers and you have to work the phones and the radio at the same time.
Life and Death decisions, threats of lawsuits, shoddy equipment, cops that mumble unintelligible english on the radio, uuugghh... it gets pretty crazy. There really can't be many professions that are worse. I work in IT now and I will say that nothing in IT even comes close. - Bega, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6funny how 5 of the 10 irritations are due to managerial problems.
- jgtg32a, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You have a ***** of cash to make you happy and get rid of your stress
- RickGonja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I have to agree police officer or soldier. I spent a year in Iraq and now when people are stressing out anout anything not just work I look at them and laugh. I just can see stress in any regular job anymore. I am working on my computer engineering degree and have done the call center thing and it does not compare to Iraq.
- vuke69, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Unions are worthless relics of the past. They are the problem, not the solution.
All they do is keep the pieces of ***** from getting fired, so everyone around them has to work harder to pick up the slack.
Unions are the main reason for most labor that is moved offshore. They jack up the labor rates so unreasonably high, that most smaller companies either fold, or move to Mexico/China/etc. Despite what your socialist buddies higher up say, there are plenty of jobs out there that are only worth $6/hr. - addakorn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Read the post above yours.
When were you last in a school room? I would personally be arrested the first day of my career teaching. - nargalzius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I remember reading somewhere that it can get quite stressful. Most of the time, these people aren't really "aroused" - especially the women. Imagine not being aroused enough to produce your own lubrication and have to act all into it... all in multiple takes that lasts for hours, and sometimes being shot at the most ungodly hours of the day (cold early morning, etc.)
The men have it easier no doubt, but overall - they have their own resentments towards the job (like keeping their package hard enough through all the stress of the takes, and coming on cue. But overall, I guess it's reasonable to assume it's better to be paid for something like that than anything else. - signal15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is why IT people that have a job as a consultant have little stress. The people you work for are paying you big bucks to come out and fix their problems because they can't do it themselves. You actually do have value to them.
- bionikal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3yeah Ive heard that Air Traffic controller is the worst. (it has the highest turnover due to this)
sit in front of a radar, tell pilots when/where they can and cant land, deal with several instances of this. manage dangerous situations. work night shift. make a mistake and a plane full of people die.
fun job =/ - Splitt3rxx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4wow, some of those are jobs I considered pursuing, my life is gonna suck.
- TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4heh, I hope that was a joke ;-)
- EternalNY1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm a certified Air Traffic Controller, AND a Microsoft certified C# developer.
Let me tell you, IT is NOT the most stressful field. - scatfly, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4what teacher only works 6 hours a day? In my city school is 8 to 3, and teachers have to be there by 715, and most dont leave until atleast 430. I mean cmon. Not to mention, they take theirf work home with them (grading and what not). The 2 months off in the summer is nice though. : )
- rhizome, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7if by weirdo ***** you mean "jaded by endless meaningless sex for money."
didn't you people ever see "boogie nights?" sheesh! - isemism, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Theres IT... and then theres inbound IT callcenters... you can only ask if its plugged in so many times before you snap...
- vuke69, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4DuneAdx:
I actually don't even lump trade unions in with labor unions for the very reasons you stated. They really are two different beasts. Trade unions actually serve a purpose, where as labor unions are little more than a socialist power-grab (as backwards as that should be in concept, in reality, that has become the primary modus operandi). - gameguy43, on 10/12/2007, -9/+12no doubt it would be a fun job, but im sure it has its down sides. I bet most of those guys have been sterilized from popping so many pills to increase their package size. Also, you have to hit the gym all the time to stay in good shape and u cant like play sports and ***** cus i bet you wont get hired if you have a single scrape on your body. you also have to be a realy unselfish lover to make a whole movie. but i'm sure its still fun to get to screw some of the hottest girls around.
- DuneAdx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Sounds like my man is from the United Brotherhood of Carpenters. The carpenters are more like a guild than a labor union.
As a millwright Local 1607, I work in an industry where the only place to get proper training is through the union. I have spent 5 years in an apprenticeship, and on top of that have spent countless hours at the various training centers getting skills to give me an edge in the field. I have certifications of the ass. I've worked side by side with non-union guys and for the most part, they are unsafe, and have almost no idea what they are doing. They have almost no formal training at all. I get paid more than the non-union guys because of the quality of my work, NOT because of my Union rep. Our bargaining power is derived from our skills, not our numbers. I've spent more time redoing the work of non-union contractors than I'd care to admit. My biggest annoyance is when a company hires us union millwrights to design and fabricate something, and then have the non-union guys come in and copy our work.
"All they do is keep the pieces of ***** from getting fired, so everyone around them has to work harder to pick up the slack."
I don't pick up the slack for anyone. If a guy can't pull his weight, he is gone. I've fired plenty of people because they are lazy or idiots. - andrew_m, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Being a 911 Dispatcher my self I totaly agree. Nothing like answering a 911 of some girls grandma who isn't breathing, having the EMS dispatcher yell at your for some information you can't get becase the girl is more worried about telling you to get them there faster and bitching you out. Then after that call getting some pissed off guy wanting to know why his no big deal call isn't handled before the guy beating his wife...then you throw in the people who want to kill them selfs. Also you have to talk to people whos loved one just died.
- RickGonja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2oops fat fingers.I meant to say "Can't see stress in any regular job"
- DuneAdx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There may be LAWS, but in the real world, I've seen people try and hide on the job injuries from their bosses. Even if you were to report an injury and get fired, how are you going to prove you were injured on the job. None of the other employees are going to risk their jobs for you. Usually injuries are caused by contractors violating OSHA standards. The problem is, the non-union employees are afraid to call OSHA to report violations for fear of being fired. They don't have anyone to explain and fight for their rights (My union's lawyers have actually gone to court with me).
In most non-union construction jobs, there is a fairly high turn around on the employees. If you want to get called back for the next job a contractor has, you better not make any waves. -
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