The 10 Most Stressful Careers

Air traffic controllers not on the list? A profession in which - due to stress - almost none reach retirement age?

I'm surprised that Air Traffic Controller didn't make the list.

In actuality, nothing beats the stress of long term unemployment.

Seems to me that a list like this shows that meeting deadlines and dealing with other people are almost as good at producing stress as is physical danger.

Corporate Executives are very stressed..."How do I take an 8 figure bonus while paying a lower tax rate than my secretary?"

I was surprised not to see emergency room doctors on the list.

All jobs come with stress , that is why they pay you. Never know when you will be unemployeed for someone that will work at entry level.

Corporate execs? The only time they feel stress is when they are trying to figure out which subordinate to blame. If they can't make that stick, they just say it was "jobs-killing regulations" and pay a republican to say that's right.

Notice that Real Estate Agent or Loan Underwriter or Financial Advisor or Mutual Fund Manager or Hedge Fund Manager did not make the list. But they caused our entire country to go into a deep recession.

Customer service, especially collections. It's a double whammy. You're always dealing with difficult people, and your department is always pushing you to handle more calls and meet their goals. I did it for a few months, but it was hugely stressful and I got out. I'm not cut out for it. Few people are.

I think I would add Nurse to the list.

Also some of those jobs are high stress for shorter periods of time. Like the firefighter and the soldier. Although soldiers do have the stress of being away from family. Still I know alot of soldiers and they say that besides a fire fight it is not a very stressful job.

If you click through to the methodology section, you'll see this info is just junk. All they did was to have their unidentified "researchers" assign scores to jobs.

Well I disagree with this, heck I'm law enforcement myself and your not "stressed" if you don't allow yourself to be. Its all in how you take it and deal with it. Personally I'm usually relaxed at my job I'm a people person and I help people solve their problems. I love my job because sometimes part of professionalism is NOT to laugh. I mean face it criminals are not the smartest people in the world. I've literally run into a few that were so stupid they didn't know how to spell their own names! Every shift at least once I find myself muttering "Your schitten me." You can't make this stuff up.

corrections officer!!!!!!!!!! duh!!!!!!

I'm surprised teaching freshmen algebra didn't make the list.

What about High School teachers?

When you look at the final sentence, the entire report makes no sense. I've been a soldier, a teacher and a lab tech...never deployed to a combat zone, but that wasn't specified above. Both of the other situations were much more stressful than regimentation and taking orders.

Try being in front of a classroom of 22 eight year olds...

I'm a single mom. I think that's stressful. But...it's worth it.

How about physician?