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If there’s one thing that can make your job unbearable to the point of turning in a letter of resignation, it’s feeling stressed out in your position. Even if you’re not getting paid a ton of money, having a minimally stressful day can vastly improve your mood and your outlook on your career, making getting through the day a manageable feat. However, when your days are plagued with deadlines, public meetings, and life or death situations, it’s worth reconsidering your career options.
Thanks to CareerCast, we now know the least stressful jobs of 2017, so you can start looking for new listings on Monster immediately. Career “stress” was defined by a total of 11 categories, including percentage of time spent traveling, exposure to hazardous environments, and competitiveness of the role, so these jobs are overall some of the most relaxing ones you can hold. Each position was assigned a “stress score” where the lower the score equals a job with minimal stress. If you’re considering a career change, check out CareerCast’s ten least stressful jobs of 2017 so you can finally start skipping those 6 a.m. yoga classes.
10. Medical Laboratory Technician; Stress Score: 10.31
9. Pharmacy Technician; Stress Score: 9.10
8. Operations Research Analyst; Stress Score: 9.02
7. Jeweler; Stress Score: 8.95
6. Medical Records Technician; Stress Score: 8.57
5. University Professor; Stress Score: 8.17
4. Audiologist; Stress Score: 7.31
3. Hair Stylist; Stress Score: 5.80
2. Compliance Officer; Stress Score: 5.73
1. Diagnostic Medical Sonographer; Stress Score: 4.00
Of course, having a relaxing job doesn’t necessarily pay the bills, so if you have student loans, some of these pay not be strong options for you; however, operations research analyst, university professor, and compliance officer are a couple of strong options where you can put that Bachelor’s degree to use. At the end of the day, even if you’re considering taking a pay cut, it may be worth it for your sanity. Besides, your student loans will be forgiven in the next 10-20 years depending on your career track, so as long as you’re keeping up with those minimum payments (or getting deferrals, you lucky dog, you), a career change may just be in order..
[via CareerCast]
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Steph W.
Steph W. is a new Master's degree graduate with an intern's salary and six-figure taste. She realizes her expectations far exceed reality, so she spends her days pinning away Loubs she pretends are in her physical closet instead of her virtual one. Her hobbies include attempting to trapping her boyfriend into marriage before he finds out how insane she is and pretending that Black Box wine tastes as good as the kind she could afford when she was gainfully employed. Send her tips for getting out of student debt at recruitchairtsm@gmail.com
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So you’re telling me there’s a correlation of job stress to pay?
I bet being a University Professor is pretty awesome sometimes.
My buddy just started teaching at a local college and he says the free time he has is insane.
I imagine the first few years when you’re establishing your name in the field, getting tenure, and getting grad students might be rough. After that it definitely sounds like a cakewalk, provided you choose to be a middle tier researcher. I see plenty of people in my field who publish minor variations of the same paper over and over again and make it a career. But the people at the top of the game are definitely stressed as hell
I can almost guarantee you there is a heavy correlation between that list and the amount of political memes people in these professions post on Facebook.
You know what’s not the least stressful job in 2017? Accountant. Fuck busy season.
can relate
Username checks out
Drinking helps but just sets you back further its a real catch 22.
How is hair stylist considered one of the least stressful jobs? There’s no way Girl, Caroline, etc are doing their own hair and there’s no way they don’t have sky-high expectations.
I can come up with reasons to be stressed out in any of these jobs. I think I’m the problem.
Telling people their shit isn’t worth anything and selling guns is probably the least stressful job you can have
I’m a pharmacy technician and there is absolutely nothing fun or relaxing about managing other people’s medicine and health for them. “It’s supposed to be free!” “What do you mean it’s $3?!” “What’s a deductible?!” “Why CAN’T you reach my doctor and get me unlimited refills?!”
Or maybe I work in a shitty pharmacy with shitty management. That’s likely, too.
Can confirm. Laughed out loud when I read that.
How much access to you have to free medicine though? Is that a perc (pun intended) of working there? Or is it like serious lockdown.
Where I work I can’t even touch the narcotic safe. Pharmacists have to pull medicines for me and every pill is accounted for. So, no percs for anyone but the junkies.
That depends on how long you plan on keeping your job.
Have worked 14+hrs/day this week including Monday which was a federal holiday when my employer was technically closed. Real life: can I be a tenured professor with a masters?
I figured I wouldn’t see ‘Sales’ on this list…