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Top 10 Most Stressful Professions |
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According to 33 News ABC survey IT experts are more likely to suffer from stress than any other professional, a staggering 97 percent of people working in IT claim to find their life at work stressful on a daily basis. The poll revealed that IT professionals say it is difficult to get the work done when managers are constantly on their backs.
One IT respondent said: "I spend most of my day fielding calls from people who don't even have a basic knowledge of computers and printers." It is amazing the amount of time I spend teaching people where the on-off button is. "And when I do actually find a technical problem to solve, I have my manager breathing down my neck wondering why I have a backlog of complaints."
People working in medical professions have the second most stressful job - with 96.8 percent saying caring for others is rewarding but traumatic on the same hand.
Engineers, Sales and Marketing professionals and Teachers also have demanding roles, according to the poll.
Poll Results:
Top Ten Stressful Professions
- IT
- Medicine or Caring Profession
- Engineering
- Sales and Marketing
- Education
- Finance
- Human Resources
- Operations
- Production
- Clerical
Top Ten Work Stresses
- Workload
- Feeling undervalued
- Deadlines
- Type of work people have to do
- Having to take on other people's work
- Lack of job satisfaction
- Lack of control over the working day
- Having to work long hours
- Frustration with the working environment
- Targets
Top Ten Colleague Irritations
- Seeing others not pulling their weight
- Managers changing their minds about what they want doing
- Lack of support from managers
- Pressure from managers
- Feeling put-upon by managers
- Interruptions by colleagues
- Interruptions by managers
- Bullying behavior by managers
- Lack of support from colleagues
- Bullying behavior by colleagues
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