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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:45 am Post subject: TOP TEN STRESSFUL PROFESSIONS |
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1) IT
2) Medicine / Caring Profession
3) Engineering
4) Sales and Marketing
5) Education
6) Finance
7) Human Resources
 Operations
9) Production
10) Clerical
TOP TEN WORK STRESSES
Workload
Feeling undervalued
Deadlines
Type of work people have to do
Having to take on other people�s work
Lack of job satisfaction
Lack of control over the working day
Having to work long hours
Frustration with the working environment
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TOP TEN COLLEAGUE IRRITATIONS
Seeing others not pulling their weight
Managers changing their minds about what they want doing
Lack of support from managers
Pressure from managers
Feeling put-upon by managers
Interruptions by colleagues
Interruptions by managers
Bullying behavior by managers
Lack of support from colleagues
Bullying behavior by colleagues
http://www.wytv.com/news/health/2788381.html |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:17 am Post subject: |
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| What about colleagues who are tattle-tells??? |
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krats1976
Joined: 14 May 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:10 pm Post subject: Re: TOP TEN STRESSFUL PROFESSIONS |
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| Yaya wrote: |
1) IT
2) Medicine / Caring Profession
3) Engineering
4) Sales and Marketing
5) Education
6) Finance
7) Human Resources
8 ) Operations
9) Production
10) Clerical
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Fifth??
Dang, I thought it'd be at least second... (behind Medicine/Caring...) |
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Wrench
Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Moving up in the world went from 1 to 5 I feel good. |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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| prostitute ain't on there? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| What was that semi-lame Norm MacDonald joke? Worst job last year: Crack hoor! New worst job: Assistant crack hoor. |
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:59 am Post subject: Re: TOP TEN STRESSFUL PROFESSIONS |
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How the hell do ITers get stressed? 
http://eknowledger.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!F475D4DE444DB1AB!1111.entry
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| One IT respondent said: �I spend most of my day fielding calls from people who don�t even have a basic knowledge of computers and printers.�It is amazing the amount of time I spend teaching people where the on-off button is. |
Oh.  And a rough life it is. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:29 am Post subject: Re: TOP TEN STRESSFUL PROFESSIONS |
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TOP TEN WORK STRESSES
teaching fixed afternoon schedule with small classes... not an issue
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| Feeling undervalued |
yeah there's a prejudice against hagwons even though it gives me the freedom to use whatever texts I want to teach wwhatever lessons according to whatever lesson plans I want... undervalued among esl teachers in this country, for sure, and by those back home, but not undervalued by the director, in fact, korean coworkers would have this issue more than i would, i am overvalued if anything, being the sole waygook on staff
Absolutely none, even the ones i set for my students in class for assignments and for tests i can change on a whim, my only deadline is my phone bill and credit card statement, and they're more due date than anything
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| Type of work people have to do |
taking attendance kinda sucks but other than that the only chores are toy and candy confiscation and the rare transporting of student into the hallway. Other than that I get to teach and engage small classes of young and eager kids, challenging because when I slack they know it, but since i'm the sort of person who likes giving my all, running a class is a total pleasure, like conducting an orchestra on a good day, almost never like pulling teeth now that i've learned better what to do (recommend the CELTA, and years of experience helps one work out the kinks)
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| Having to take on other people�s work |
never happens, other than once in a blue moon another teacher's class will be dumped in with mine, but then such impromptu class sizes just makes me go to the plan b folder for group exercises fun and competitive... one of the pleasures of hagwon teaching for me has been not having to deel with this stress, to be able instead to have one's own teaching plans and lessons and work within it, whatever else happening outside the classroom in other classrooms be damned
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| Lack of job satisfaction |
even on a bad day there are moments of shear joy, but a sense of futility at bad habits students have picked elsewhere since their lessons in my class... is a downer... teaching is very satisfying on one level, but one never makes as much of a difference as one tries to make
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| Lack of control over the working day |
very true... this one applies to me, but only to a degree, as the work schedule is pretty much FIXED, there is a sense of control... every single minute of every single day before 2:00 p.m. is entirely and wholly my own
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| Having to work long hours |
At my first hagwon job I used to lament a long day schedule of working 3:00 pm to 9 pm most days of the week, getting to work an hour and a half before that... that's 7.5 hours a day at the workplace, not ever 8 hours! but those hours still felt very long, more perception than reality
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| Frustration with the working environment |
this did cause stress at my first hagwon job.... too cold! too hot! the heater wasn't hot enough and the air conditioner seemed to have problems, the windows were too small and covered over after my first year there, the desks were dangerous, often tipping over, once resulting in the breaking of my big toe
self-imposed and adaptable... director runs interference with parents and buffs me from any and all criticism (i never hear about it.. must happen though)... keep the students in the class and don't have them drop out, maybe even get an extra student or two over the course of a school year... unstated and unstressed targets... the only targets i fret over are over skills and production tastks i expect students to do... i am the one giving them stress over targets!! |
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stevemcgarrett
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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I'd say, more specifically, the most stressful jobs have got to include:
1. Emergency room nurse
2. Stock trader
3. Paris Hilton's publicist
4. Rosie O'Donnell's publicist
5. War correspondent (esp. in Iraq)
6. Roughin' it tour guides in Afghanistan |
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Wrench
Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:32 am Post subject: Re: TOP TEN STRESSFUL PROFESSIONS |
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| huffdaddy wrote: |
How the hell do ITers get stressed?
http://eknowledger.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!F475D4DE444DB1AB!1111.entry
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| One IT respondent said: “I spend most of my day fielding calls from people who don’t even have a basic knowledge of computers and printers.“It is amazing the amount of time I spend teaching people where the on-off button is. |
Oh. And a rough life it is. |
When you responsible for 300k worth of servers that run a company that churns out almost 12 million dollars a month is very stressful. |
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:02 am Post subject: Re: TOP TEN STRESSFUL PROFESSIONS |
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| Wrench wrote: |
| huffdaddy wrote: |
How the hell do ITers get stressed?
http://eknowledger.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!F475D4DE444DB1AB!1111.entry
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| One IT respondent said: �I spend most of my day fielding calls from people who don�t even have a basic knowledge of computers and printers.�It is amazing the amount of time I spend teaching people where the on-off button is. |
Oh. And a rough life it is. |
When you responsible for 300k worth of servers that run a company that churns out almost 12 million dollars a month is very stressful. |
The guy above is complaining about answering tech calls. Do you think that's stressful?
FWIW, my last boss in the States traded over $10,000,000,000 in interest rate futures a day.
I'd have to place anything involving life and death above IT, finance, or education (and I've worked in all three at some point in my life). Medical, police, fire, and military should all be near the top. |
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Drunken Monkey
Joined: 17 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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Not sure how engineering made it to 3rd in that list.
I work in engineering, although now i am on the management side of things the only time i get my hands dirty is if i fall over!!
But either way hands on or not, engineering is not stressful. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| What was that semi-lame Norm MacDonald joke? Worst job last year: Crack hoor! New worst job: Assistant crack hoor. |
 His jokes are lame. That's his shtick. |
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