Top Stressful Jobs

If you're in one of the top stressful jobs, you probably already know it and need some strategies to deal with it. But if you're planning a career move and don't want a job with a lot of anxiety, you might want to avoid those careers that provide a lot of stress for people.

There are actually many different lists of the most stressful jobs using different methods of measurement and rankings.

For instance a survey from the United Kingdom found that IT professionals reported having the most stress in their jobs, with 97 percent saying they found work stressful on a daily basis.

Second were people in the medical professions, followed by engineers, people in sales and marketing and teachers.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report from Health magazine states that inner-city teachers in particular have the most stressful jobs, followed by police officers, miners, air traffic controllers and medical interns.

Rounding out the top 10 most stressful jobs, according to the CDC, are stockbrokers, journalists, those who work in customer service (particularly taking complaints), secretaries and waiters. So what's the least stressful job? According to this survey, being a forester.

Another British study found that librarians have a lot of stress because they are most likely to be unhappy with their jobs. They were said to be unhappy because of the repetitive and unchallenging nature of their work.

While firefighters and police face more stress on the job, they're also trained to handle it, making the job more rewarding, which can make their feeling of stress lower than those who aren't prepared for stress or job dissatisfaction.

If you happen to have chosen one of the top stressful jobs and you don't want to add more stress to your life by changing careers, it's a great idea to learn as much as you can about stress reduction so that you can use stress techniques whenever you're feeling stress at the job.

There are many different kinds of stress you might feel at work, from the boredom of a repetitive job to the stress of having someone's life in your hands several times a day. So the first step to cutting down stress at work is to define where you stress is coming from.

Are you stressed out because your coworkers don't pull their weight or because your working environment is unhealthy? Is it the actual job that's stressful or the strange hours you have to work? Is your job stress actually related to not seeing your family enough, or not being secure in your job and worrying that if you mess something up you'll be fired?

Any of these and more issues can be causes of workplace stress, even if you have a job that's not one of the most stressful ones out there.

Once you've pinpointed where your stress is coming from, see if there's anything you can do about the stressful situation (short of quitting your job). Is there a way to change to a more challenging position, one with better hours or one that doesn't involve directly working with someone who drives you crazy?

If you can't do anything to change the cause of the amount of stress you're feeling, it's time to tackle your feelings of stress in whatever way you can, such as:

• Working out
• Meditation
• Talking about it to your friends or spouse
• Writing in a journal
• Visiting websites dealing with how to handle work-related stress
• Breathing exercises

Any or all of these methods of stress reduction may be helpful for you, and some of them you can even try at work to calm yourself down when you feel stress starting to kick in.

The most important thing you can do when it comes to workplace stress is acknowledge that it exists and do your best to minimize what you can and deal with what you can't. Your morale and your health depend on it.

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