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Firefighters led CareerCast's list of most stressful jobs [source: CareerCast ]. Emergency medical technicians often show up on other lists. Workers in both jobs often work at the same emergency settings, and their jobs are similar enough to share a ranking.
Firefighters and EMTs often work long hours. Sometimes, they're simply on duty without answering any calls, but often they miss a lot of sleep. These jobs also can cost workers a lot of family time. Time spent in the station, working on equipment, training or just passing the time can suddenly be interrupted by an emergency call that requires immediate action.
Firefighters and EMTs are often in physical danger themselves. They must deal with people who are injured, frightened or grieving. They're likely to see gruesome scenes that may haunt their nightmares. Too often, they must deal with the reality of losing someone or someone's home that they tried to save. If that wasn't enough, firefighters and EMTs generally don't make much.
Danger plus meager pay equals a stressful job. Medical professionals often show up on lists of stressful jobs. Consider the vital importance of their work, the long hours and the knowledge that they can't always fix things, and the stress is understandable. Surgeons must be incredibly precise -- often for hours at a time.
Psychiatrists listen to other people's problems, knowing that they can't always help. Medical interns work hard, often without adequate sleep. Dentists do much of their work standing up, developing foot and back problems, in addition to worrying about people's teeth and gums. Nurses and others who work with terminally ill patients face great emotional stress.
Dentists, physicians and others with their own practices feel the pressure of running a business as well as attending to their painstaking work. Those who work for larger practices feel pressured to see more patients, and sometimes feel they don't have enough time to do their job right. For years, there's been a widespread belief that dentists have the highest suicide rate of any profession.
Actually, that's something of an urban legend: It gained traction after Jerry's dentist made the claim in a episode of "Seinfeld. Interestingly, evidence shows that physicians actually have the highest suicide rates. Researchers speculate that's because physicians have ready access to powerful drugs and know how to use them. The means of suicide are available to them, and they're more likely to succeed if they try.
Using suicide rate comparisons to determine the most stressful professions can be misleading, however. Many jurisdictions don't record the profession of suicide victims, and sometimes self-inflicted deaths aren't recorded as suicides [source: Shrira ]. Most teachers deal with lots of job stress. They have to be well prepared every day, and they get very little down time -- none, really, while students are present.
Many people think that teachers have good working schedules, but teachers take a lot more of their work home with them than other professionals. There are always lessons to plan, papers to grade and records to keep. In addition, the pay isn't much, compared to professions with similar educational requirements. Increasingly, public school teachers face additional problems of lack of respect from students, and even from students' parents and the general public.
Because they're paid with tax dollars , public school teachers are always under scrutiny. Few professionals are judged as closely as teachers are. Emphasis on test scores finds teachers held accountable if their students don't improve each year -- even if the students may be hampered by factors outside the classroom.
Whether they work for local police, county sheriff's departments, highway patrol or other agencies, law-enforcement officers have one of the most stressful jobs around. Whenever a call comes in, police officers must be ready to put their lives on the line. Even more stressful, they know that even a routine traffic stop or a seemingly ordinary incident can turn dangerous in seconds.
Despite that knowledge, officers must practice restraint. They don't want to be accused of having used unnecessary force, and they don't want to cause the injury or death of another person. Their split-second judgments may be second-guessed by others for a long time.
The hours are long, and the schedules can take a heavy toll on family life. A sworn officer of the law is never really off-duty. He or she must be ready to step in if an emergency arises. And once again, they do lots of important work for relatively little compensation.
Then there are the armed officers who have the extra burden of long stints away from home. Keep reading to learn about another source of stress. Soldiers belong in a special category. Military personnel don't have to worry about being laid off, and they usually have excellent benefits. But that job security and those benefits come at a price. People in the military don't have the freedom to walk away from a job if they decide they don't like it.
They're subject to changes in orders with little or no warning. They must worry about their rank and compete for promotions. The academic pressures and stress faced by teens today start long before high school and seem to escalate every year.
Even with these overloaded schedules, students have no guarantee of getting into colleges— even state institutions —where admission rates keep dropping. He explained that students react more intensely when their world feels less stable than they expect—and less likely to reward their efforts and hopes with desired outcomes. They are simultaneously more sensitive and less capable of controlling impulses, said Keating.
While the world has never been safe, teens who make up Generation Z—born in the mids to mids—now receive constant alarmist reminders online through a personalized I. Her students sometimes erupt with emotion over issues seemingly detached from the school experience.
There are also new terrors—climate change, immigration policy, MeToo. With every issue—whether immigration policy, sexual harassment, climate change, or suicide itself—Generation Z members reported experiencing the most stress of any age group. As well as being constantly exposed to negative news online, teens are also engrossed in the digital hallways of Snapchat and TikTok—sometimes so much so that they collide in the real-life hallways of school.
Though tech use can have positive benefits for youth, obsessive, always-on media can mire teens in the unhelpful refuge of wide-ranging shallow connections that sharpen existing problems and render them all-consuming—whether it be a conflict with a peer, an unhealthy relationship, or a negative body image. These digital connections can quickly become a substitute for real, deeper relationships that might help teens combat stress or cope with challenges.
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