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20 most stressful jobs
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Posted 6 months ago i know i put 20 but its top 10
1. Inner City High School teacher 2. Police Officer (agree with this one) 3. Miner 4. Air Traffic Controller 5. Medical Intern 6. Stockbroker 7. Journalist 8. Customer Service/Complaint worker 9. Secretary 10. Waiter Okay they dont even have Military on here, and believe me my hubby is a soldier, so i know how stressed they can get! |
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| Posted 6 months ago That's crap! Well, you could say that number 8 is almost the same thing. Only you give the person instructions on how to stop the bleeding after they just used their hand to clean out the tines of their snowblower, while it was running! I read somewhere the being a 911 Dispatcher was the most stressful job out of 12 industries. I will try and find that. |
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| Posted 6 months ago awesome, i haven't found 1 site that includes dispatchers in their top 10 list |
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| Posted 6 months ago Dispatchers are easily in the top 5, The pollsters are idiots. |
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| Posted 6 months ago No joke Jakesdad! |
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| Posted 6 months ago THAT POST WAS PROBABLY WRITTEN BY A TEACHER, JUST TO CLEAR UP ANY CONFUSION. A LIBERAL TEACHER WHO IS PROBABLY ANTI-MILITARY AND DOESN'T KNOW WHAT A DISPATCHER IS. THEY SHOULD ASK POLICE OFFICERS WHAT THE MOST STRESSFUL JOBS ARE, BECAUSE WE DEAL WITH THE PUBLIC MORE THAN ANYONE. ANY LEGITIMATE SURVEY WOULD HAVE INCLUDED DISPATCHER AND DENTIST ( THEY HAVE A HIGH SUICIDE RATE ) AND MORTICIAN OR FUNERAL DIRECTOR. ALL HAVE HIGH SUICIDE RATES AND DIVORCE RATES, UNFORTUNATELY. ALSO I HAVE BEEN A POLICE OFFICER, CORRECTIONAL OFFICER, DEPUTY SHERIFF AND I WAS A POLICE CADET / DISPATCHER. DISPATCHING WAS MORE STRESSFUL THAN ANY OF THE OTHERS. CORRECTIONS WAS NEXT, THEN ROAD DUTY. THATS AN HONEST ASSESSMENT. "Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself." - Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant "America was not built on fear." "America was built on courage, imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. " - President Harry S. Truman |
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| Posted 6 months ago KETOLACA said: I completely agree....But, I was wondering, if a Mortician commits suicide do they get a discount on the funeral? WOW, that was bad. I would have to agree, when I was in dispatch the call taking from the children was the worst. It is a toss up though, between hearing them and not being able to be there to help them and the actual being there as the little ones grieved and knowing that what you say still isnt comforting enough. I would have to say that Public Safety in general (including communications) should be in the top two with the military. |
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| Posted 6 months ago This is because 911 isn't taken into consideration as a "profession". Whoever puts together these studies gather information on many, many jobs. Since there are no studies on 911 Telecommunicators, there is no way to say why we have a very stressful job. Sad but true. |
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| Posted 6 months ago I was a Military Air Traffic Controller for 13 years before I retired. I think dispatching is the hardest thing I've done and I"ve only done it as a temp substitute. I REALLY don't wanna do it full time. Thankfully, we're short on street cops so I don't think it's an issue. (hope you get that!) |
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| Posted 6 months ago Maybe we should make our own Top Ten Stressfull Jobs list and put ourselves in the top 3! Then post it and see what people have to say .. |
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| Posted 6 months ago Number 9 should be replaced with "Postal Worker" |
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| Posted 6 months ago Rex...I have to agree..! |
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| Posted 6 months ago Well, I'd like to invite whoever compiled that list to feel free to grab a headset.... sit in the hotseat and take some 911 calls and dispatch for even half a shift... and see where they rank our job in terms of stress, lol. You may know where you are and what you're doing...
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| Posted 6 months ago missvicki6 said: clean up after yourself..I just steped in your pellets...! |
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| Posted 6 months ago hey what about computer programmers............can't tell you how many times I wanted to kill the damn thing lmao.....serious, it is stressful to do the codeing, but yes a LEO has one hell of a stressful job. |
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| Posted 6 months ago I hear Hugh Hefner calling for you honey.. |
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| Posted 6 months ago I see smoke coming from your behind... |
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| Posted 6 months ago smshrewsbury said: hear comes peter cottontail hopping down the bunny trail.... |
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| Posted 6 months ago smshrewsbury said: I JUST STEPPED IN YOUR PELLETS..! |
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| Posted 6 months ago KETOLACA said: I agree with you! Dispatching is a highly stressful occupation and when the crap hits the fan move that stress up a few steps. |
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| Posted 6 months ago Being a dispatcher is very stressful. No only do you have to deal with people on the phone you have to make sure the personnel that you are dispatching are safe at all times. And when the shit hits the fan you are busier than a one leg man in an ass kicking contest! |
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| Posted 6 months ago FutureLEO said: FutureLEO, I lost all respect I had for you. I know from my experience in dispatching that it is highly stressful when everything goes down. It is just aas important as the street. wrong info or no info from the dispatchers will lead to disaster on the street. PERIOD. back off and be sensible. I have worked both sides and may have some knowledge about it as do several of the other dispatchers or former dispatchers posting here..... Why do NON-LEO skanks like "ycpdofficerswife" have the ability to get TRUE LEO like "NAVYCOP" sanctioned when NAVYCOP was right to begin with? Did did the skanky hoe "ycpdofficerswife" offer "services" to the owners?????? |
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| Posted 6 months ago They left out being a husband and a father of a teenage daughter. Being a Tyrant does not make one a Leader! |
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| Posted 6 months ago RetiredCop said: that can be fun if you know how to deal with the teenage s**t-for-brains she brings home (yes, I am one).. LOL... but I fear every father I meet, because they are crazy.. I want to find the driver(s) at the front of the traffic jam and have their license(s) revoked. Then make them ride the bus until they promise never to hold the rest of us up again. |
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| Posted 6 months ago I just love wearing my shoulder holster with my Glock 45 whenever her boyfriend comes over. Sort of sends a subliminal message! ;) Being a Tyrant does not make one a Leader! |
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| Posted 6 months ago jakesdad said: More like #1... |
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| Posted 6 months ago burky said: and you are a respecter bunnies...!? |
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| Posted 6 months ago WELL HONESTLY FOR ME... I'VE ONLY BEEN DISPATCHING FOR LIKE 11 MONTHS OR SO... BUT I DONT FEEL THAT IT'S THAT STRESSFUL SO I'D AGREE WITHT EH TOP 10 LIST AND DISPATCHING "NOT" BEING ON THERE! I MEAN YOUR LIFE IS SAFE INSIDE A BUILDING AND THERE ARE PLENTY OF PEOPLE THAT ARE OUT THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD THERE LIFE IS NOT THAT SAFE. THAT TO ME IS A BIG STRESS FACTOR. |
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| Posted 6 months ago SSILVAS said: I think that it's not so much our safety that makes it stressful or not stressful; to me it's the process of taking a 911 call from a HUGE emergency, and talking the person down and into telling you what the problem is. It goes from being a disaster, to a smaller issue that can be handled. Dispatchers have to calm the person down, and help them get help. While our lives may not be in direct danger, the responsibility of caring for those whose lives ARE in danger is quite stressful. I think we should be in the top 5 for SURE!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Posted 6 months ago SSILVAS said: What exactly do you dispatch? Or are you still in training? Because when you have a million and one things going on the radio and you have a 911 call it gets a bit stressful! As mention above you have to calm a caller down, "breaking the threshold of hysteria." That is very stressful!!!! |