Low Stress Jobs

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Most jobs come with different levels of stress tied into them. Sadly, a lot of them are considered too stressful for comfort. It may just be considered good luck for some people to even land a low stress job that would be quite a joy to have. But usually, one doesn't have to rely on luck to have such a job. All it takes is too know what those types of jobs are.

Job Stress And Health

A lot of people tend to look for low stress jobs in order to feel more relaxed and comfortable even while practicing their profession. Less stress on the job seems to be closely associated with job contentment and even good health. True enough, job stress, according to researchers, can really affect one's life in the physical sense. Too much job stress has been attributed to depression, sleep loss, memory loss and diseases such as stroke, heart disease and diabetes. Job stress can also greatly affect one's mental and emotional health eventually and may lead to problems with relationships.

Stress Ratings

Experts today try to evaluate different jobs and try to rate the amount of stress they can cause. These stress ratings are assessed according to several job related factors. One of the factors includes certain types of working conditions that present different levels of stress tolerance. Job stress ratings can be further assessed according to the amount of time people spent on the job each week, the frequency of conflict, level of pressure as well as the competition level. With all of these noted and analyzed, experts have developed a means to determine jobs which might be considered low stress ones. Here are some of them and with their respective stress ratings.

  1. Fitness Trainers and Aerobic Instructors- 31.2
  2. Massage Therapists- 37.2
  3. Environmental Scientists and Specialists- 45.2
  4. General Maintenance and Repair- 46.4
  5. Operations Research Analyst- 46.5
  6. Software Engineers- 46.6
  7. Environmental Engineers- 47.9
  8. Tile and Marble Setters- 48.5

  

The list of low stress jobs above were taken from the book, 150 Best Low-Stress Jobs by career expert, Laurence Shatkin, Ph.D. The book tries to sort out among the hundreds and hundreds of jobs and determines which of them offer people the less job stress. Different occupations were evaluated and their stress ratings determined. Along with this, issues regarding earning potential, growth possibilities and annual job openings were also considered as part of making the lists in the said book.

 
 


 

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