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10 Best (Most Flexible! Least Stressful!) Jobs in the U.S.
The 10 best jobs in the U.S. aren’t necessarily the 10 least stressful or the 10 most flexible, at least according to CNN Money. But there is one job that overlaps all three lists.
Which one?
College professor. (Hmmmm … I live with a college professor and while I think it’s a pretty great gig — except for the pay, people, except for the pay — I would say overall college profs whine a lot about their jobs. Just sayin’!)
Anyway, if you’re thinking of a career change or maybe getting back into the workforce full-time, you might want to take a peek at this. Although, warning! Some of these jobs take years of schooling, etc., so, you know, maybe you’ll want to pass this list along to a high school senior instead.
At the very top is Systems Engineer, then Physician Assistant, College Professor, Nurse Practitioner and IT/Project Manager. Go here for the rest of the list.
Lowest stress careers are for Education/Training Consultants, Physical Therapists, College Professors (!), Software Developers and Technical Writers. Here‘s the rest of that list.
Most flexible careers are Sales Director, Software Product Manager, Software Development Director, Director of Communications, and Product Management Director. Here‘s the rest of the flexibility list.
Highest paid? Anesthesiologist ($292,000 … damn!) then Physician/OBGyn ($222,000).
Most benefit to society (some of us are going to want to sit down before reading this one). Physician and then … OBGyn.
Thoughts? Did you pick the right career? Suddenly mulling med school? What’s your great and fabulous and flexible job? Writer, sadly, didn’t appear anywhere.
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Hands Off the Spanx! | Strollerderby commented on Oct 14 09 at 4:30 pmRobyn commented on Oct 15 09 at 12:11 amLeast Stressful = Software Developers and Technical Writers?!?! I’m a tech writer. Maybe it’s not stressful if you don’t do your job right. “We changed the entire UI from green to blue. That’s not a big deal, right?” “This is a new, important feature, but it’s not done yet, so you’ll have to ask the developer how it works. He’s in China and doesn’t speak English very well.” “We forgot we needed to update the doc. Can you have it tomorrow?”
And tech writers will argue over the littlest nitpicks. I spent 15 minutes today debating italics in online documentation. Conversations about the serial comma can go on for hours.
And after all the work you put in, the best you can hope for is that no one says anything. Because people only comment on the documentation if something’s bad or wrong. Which it often is, because companies aren’t willing to pay for good technical communicators.
I knew I should have gone into academia!
liquidmarketing commented on Oct 15 09 at 9:37 ambeing a tech writer is a hard thing to do. My brother is one and I can say that it is consuming most of his time since he is writing so many articles per day..
Barb commented on Oct 15 09 at 10:04 amRobyn, your comment had me rolling. I’m a writer, too, as you probably guessed. I do marketing, but it’s exactly as you said: “You can have that later today, right?” “Here’s 4,000 pages of documentation; please turn it into a one-page flyer.” “I understand there are rules you need to follow, but I just like it better this way [with types and/or run-ons, etc.].” And you’re exactly right=the goal is to not have anyone comment because they’ll only comment on a mistake. And in editing, you might fix 100 errors, but if you miss one, it’s the end of the world.
But honestly, it’s depends on the company you work for… right now I feel very low stress in my job, but a year-and-a-half ago I left a job that was so much stress I would drive home every night crying.
robert commented on Mar 15 10 at 10:43 pmComments I think the most fun job would be an archaeologist
StressIsEverywhere commented on May 30 10 at 11:15 pmHonestly, every job will have it’s good or bad, there’s no greener grass out there.
jad137 commented on Jul 19 10 at 1:43 pmSoftware Developers have a low stress career? Whoever wrote this list obviously never spoke with any software developers. I would rank it right up there as one of the 10 MOST stressful jobs.
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