Wait, are there jobs where people don't have severe stress?
Hmm...apparently I've been doing this wrong.
In all seriousness, any job in which I was solely the responsible person and the product/service was critical for many people. I'm thinking chief engineer for a high volume pharmaceutical manufacturing company.
My husband's job. He's in accounting at Tesla and can barely stay afloat with all the work that's piled onto him. If he gets behind, it's a huge rippling affect that starts and numerous people and outside vendors will chew him out. He's putting in 60 hours a week and still stresses that he can't get it all done.
I don't really love event planning for the same reason you don't - I live with a constant dread that something will go terribly wrong on the big day. But as long as I'm keeping a detailed list of everything that needs to be done, and when, and then doing it, I feel like I've done my job. Even if the fricking host of the event calls in sick 1 hour before the event and I have to step in and do it while 8 1/2 months pregnant, like the last event I did before becoming a SAHM. Ugh.
But anyway, what would stress me out most would be any job in sales where I have to talk all day, and have to convince someone to buy. Even when I believe in a service or product, I hate selling. HATE. I also hate small talk. And never having time to myself. For that kind of job, I would need to drink a lot more.
I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? I shall only engage in commerce if books are the coin. -- Catherynne M. Valente
Post by lightbulbsun on Sept 30, 2013 12:06:10 GMT -5
Sales. I had a direct sales job in college and I hated it (it was a rough summer and I couldn't find anything else). I would feel physically ill when I had to make calls or do a pitch. It was horrible.