(FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - A survey by an Internet job finder has ranked the most stressful and the least stressful careers (additional lists at the link above):
MOST STRESSFUL
1. Commercial Air Pilot, $106,151
2. Public Relations Officer, $90,160
3. Corporate Executive, $161,141
4. Photojournalist, $40,209
5. Newscaster, $50,456
6. Advertising Executive, $62,105
7. Architect, $73,193
8. Stockbroker, $67,470
9. Medical Technician, $30,168
10. Real Estate Agent, $40,357
Ok, buckle up because this is going to be a lenghty one people. I've got a few major problems with this list:
1. Blogger/Corporate middle manager isn't anywhere on this list. Newsflash, this is stressful as fuck. Analyzing excel spreadsheets one second, alt-tabbing it to The Alt-Tab to keep the blogs fresh the next, tweeting new posts on my phone on my lap under my desk hoping people walking by don't think I'm diddling myself. It's not easy.
2. Politicians aren't on there, see today's earlier post.
3. The President isn't on here. Most stressful job on Earth, hands down. Not only does everyone hate you (including your supporters) but you've got the entire weight of the country on you, even for shit you have no control over. Look at Bush, catching all that flack for Katrina, like the guy can control tropical depressions and weather patters coming from the West coast of Africa. Shit is nuts, but its the job.
4. Airline Pilots are number 1? Come on bro, you kidding me? That job is the balls. First off you get up to your cruising altitude and you're doing just that, cruising. Take a nap, chat up the young female flight attendant, do whatever you want. You're only really flying for like 10 minutes on take off and 20 minutes on the descent and landing, that's it. It's not like there's stop lights and traffic jams, no jackass teenagers with brand new licenses flying like maniacs. Plus you get to live it up in the airport bars for free. The life, the absolute life. Complaining about being a pilot is like complaining about being a rock star.
5. Newscaster - I had no idea I made more than most of these people on the Fox 25 Morning show. Like I'm sure one or two of them out do me, but 50K? Those guys are on air from like 4AM-10AM. 4 AM! I haven't seen what 4 AM looks like ever. 50K certainly aint getting me up and make up ready, in studio at that time. No sir, uh-uh.
6. General Lack of Public Employees, specifically social workers - Worst job on earth. Glad someone's willing to do it, but its the worst. You see the absolute worst in humanity and make as much bank as a high school janitor. Can't even imagine how many houses those people leave not knowing whether or not the kid they just left with their deadbeat parents is going to live through the week.
7. Real Estate Agents - No offense, but this job is absolute cake these days. Sorry, the internet does 90% of the work for you. Just prepare the paper work that I'll need to sign and you're all set. Seriously, I'm going through this right now. We look online, find places we'd like to see, if there's an open house we go on our own, if not we e-mail our agent and they set up a viewing. If we want to put an offer in they give us a piece of paper they probably made 4,000 copies of and ask us to fill in the blanks and sign. What exactly is the stressful part of this job? It's a license to steal. I go out, find a house, mortgage my life away, and you make like 2.5% for photocopying a few sheets of paper and e-mailing them to the correct parties. Yea real tough life.
