Lists of Most Stressful Jobs and Least Stressful Jobs

October 16th, 2009

Canadian Globe and Mail newspaper published results of the study focused on discovering the most and the least stressful jobs as conducted by Erich Dierdorff – assistant professor of management at DePaul University. Without further ado, let’s get right down to the lists of both most stressful jobs and least stressful jobs:

List of Most Stressful Jobs

Police officers
Fire fighters
Family or general practice physicians

List of Least Stressful Jobs

Taxi drivers
Insurance adjusters
Bank tellers

By looking at the lists, you’re probably thinking the same I was thinking – yet another bullshit study that proved absolutely nothing. Just as majority of studies before. Or family or general practitioners I have known in my life took 6 week vacations 5 times a year. They work 4 day workweeks and come to work 2 hours late anytime they feel like. How is that effin stressful?

On the other hand taxi drivers often struggle to make ends meet and have to navigate in shitty traffic dealing with potential dangers of gang activities and pimping in the world outside. How is that not stressful? This study proved a big pile of shit.

The only thing potentially relevant about this study were the work/family conflicts. After studying people in 126 professions, Erich Dierdorff found that those from the most stressful job list faced much more conflicts in personal lives and those from least stressful jobs list faced the least conflicts in personal lives. The conclusion was that jobs with high levels of interaction contribute to increased stress levels yadda yadda, which basically makes entire study laughable because the jobs of the least stressful jobs list are all jobs that are based on constant interaction with others. All I can say about these lists is – FAIL!

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3 Responses to “Lists of Most Stressful Jobs and Least Stressful Jobs”

ed Healy – March 12th, 2010 at 2:45 pm

Your ranking of cab drivers as one of the least dangerous job is one of the least intelligent statements I’ve ever seen. We’re cops without badges … but what’s the use. You’re clearly a yuppie snob who does the your “research” without leaving your room.

Try driving in Friday rush-hour for 4 hours. Then get your blood pressure checked. See if you can make the same ridiculous claim after that.

Ed Healy owner of San Francisco Cab # 572

John – March 31st, 2010 at 2:07 am

Insurance Adjusters, least stressful? I think you meant that they are in the MOST stressful category right?

Darwin Jones – August 25th, 2010 at 10:55 pm

I think a lot of the commenters here failed to read the rest of the article. But it wouldn’t be interesting to see where Canadian Globe and Mail got the data for this sort of report.

Darwin Jones
jobs in Little Rock

Lists of Most Stressful Jobs and Least Stressful Jobs