B1 – Intermediate
Job stress is something that every employee can relate to, but not all jobs are created equal.
Listen to the audio about stressful jobs below.
https://www.allthingstopics.com/uploads/2/3/2/9/23290220/uk-stressfuljobs.mp3
Transcript:
“Recently, my nine-year-old son proudly announced to me that he wanted to become a commercial airline pilot when he grows up. I’m happy for him because he spends hours reading books about airplanes, and he loves to play airplane game apps. It’s great to know what career you want at such a young age. As well, the average annual salary for an airline pilot is quite good: US$105,270. Also, being an airline pilot means that you might travel to many exotic locations around the world places that most people might never get a
chance to see. However, I wonder if his choice of career is one that I should encourage. You see, this morning I googled “most stressful jobs” and I discovered that my son’s dream career is actually the third most stressful job on a list of top ten most stressful jobs. This makes sense because as a pilot you are responsible for the lives of hundreds of people, you are away from home for many days at a time, and you may have to fly through many different time zones which can be very difficult to adjust to. Number one on the list was “military personnel” (soldier) and number two was “firefighter”. Of course, jobs like these are very dangerous – you must put your life in danger almost daily. Interestingly, however, “taxi driver” was also on the list (at number ten). “
Discussion Questions:
- What do you think is the most stressful job?
- What do you think is the least stressful job?
- What do you think of your job?
- If a job gets too stressful, what would you do?
- Would you support your children no matter what career they choose?
12 replies on “The Most Stressful Jobs”
1. Working as a doctor or nurse in a busy emergency room in a hospital. The stress is enormous because of the quick actions. Also, a pilot or firefighter.
2. I think the least stressful job is a supermarket cashier or librarian.
3. Yes, my job is stressful many times. I have to finish reports within a period of time, we have many deadlines along with many trips. That’s why sometimes it’s very stressful.
4. If a job is very stressful, I would try to take it calmly and if it is not possible I would tell my boss or I would change jobs.
5. Yes, I would you support my children no matter what career they choose. It is her choice and if she is happy I would support her.
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1. What do you think is the most stressful job?
I think the most stressful job on the humanity history may be all related with the cures and health works, becouse your errors may finish with the live of real persons.
2. What do you think is the least stressful job?
May be a king? if it can be considered a job 🙂
3. What do you think of your job?
My job have times to be stressed, but I think, in this case, the losses are only materials, in the most cases.
4. If a job gets too stressful, what would you do?
In my opinion, you need comunicate to yout managers and, if no change the condition than make you stressed you need change the job.
5.Would you support your children no matter what career they choose?
Its a hard question, if the career is with good intention I think that my support is incodicional.
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What do you think is the most stressful job?
There are a lot of stresfull factors to take care, there are some examples in the text i think that ER medical doctor may be another very stressful job.
What do you think is the least stressful job?
All the jobs need a minimum level of stressful, if not it´s a hobby, anyway, a job that permit flexible schedule and without endlines like gardener.
What do you think of your job?
It´s a job with high level of stress, I centralize the problems.
If a job gets too stressful, what would you do?
I think that i have a good level of resilience, by the moment stress has not been able to me.
Would you support your children no matter what career they choose?
it´s very important that they choose a career that permite them a future and a good way of life, better if they like the job obviusly.
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1. What do you think is the most stressful job?
In my opinion, all jobs can be stressful, especially if there are unpredictable situations where you must make decisions or do something unusual.
It also depends on the person; each person has a different level of resistance to stress.
The classification of the example seems to be made in relation to the risk: military and firefighter, but at times professions such as air traffic control or a doctor in the event of an accident or illness that affects many people and must treat everyone at the same time, it can be the same or more stressful .
2. What do you think is the least stressful job?
If you have your work under control, this job will not be stressful for you.
3. What do you think of your job?
Like any job, there are moments of great pressure and it can become stressful, especially when I feel like I don’t have enough control of the situation.
4. If a job gets too stressful, what would you do?
I try to think how I can improve control over this work and how to plan it.
5. Would you support your children no matter what career they choose?
Yes, I will give them my opinion, but I will never oppose his choice, even if it is not to my liking and I would not have chosen it for myself, but in the end it will be his life and they have to face his choices.
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1. In my opinion, two of the most stressful jobs are doctor and nurse. In both jobs, you have to support a lot of responsibility. If you commit a small error or take a bad decision you can murder someone.
2. I think that the least is a kindergarten teacher. It”s a lovely job and the children still are wonderful.
3. My job depends on the day. Sometime it’s very stressful because you have to reach results in little time. Other time, you are a bit more relaxed.
4. I would think if I really need this job to keep or refuse it. It’s very important you know ypur necessities before you take a decision.
5. Probably I’ll try to convince them that they have to choose a career which they like it and after studying it they would get a good job. Studying isn’t all but it help you to get a good life.
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A job that you don’t like, to which you have to put in long hours and get paid little. I say this because if you don’t like it, you start badly, if you have too many tasks or we don’t know how to carry them out or you get stuck in some, you will get very stressed. To that add that they pay you little and on top of that you spend many hours doing it, not only are you going to get stressed, but you are going to get depressed, and that is not living.
I always say that today more than living, people survive, because due to different situations and that there are more poor people, people have to settle for what they can even if they don’t like it, and that is not living, it is surviving, although there are moments of happiness.
In my case, and as an answer to the second question, a low-stress job is one where you have a good time. I have now started to work, and many times I have to spend hours more because I do not know how to do many things, but I have fun, it is entertaining, I like what I do, so if you like what to do, you can be doing it the hours that If necessary, and I am fortunate that there is flexible hours, so much better.
Well, to the third question I have already answered with the previous paragraph, but I think it is a great opportunity and I have to take advantage of it, although now I am a little more involved because I have other responsibilities besides work, I really want to, because I like it in what work now.
Talk to my boss, let me lower my workload if possible, if not, give me a longer period of time to do it, or bring in more colleagues to help, and if not possible, take some holidays. The other day I read in an article that the perfect vacation was 8 days, it gives you enough time to do what you want and relax, without getting bored and wanting to do things again.
I will always support the decisions of my children and whatever they want to be, but always with a head, today many children are thinking about professions such as youtuber, instagramer and other trades related to social networks. If that were the case with my children, I would tell them to make a career while they are dedicated to that, and if at some point they do very well and earn enough, then they should leave the race and dedicate themselves to it if they want, if something You are doing well, the best thing you can do is put more hours of work to improve it.
* It has been an example a bit extreme or controversial, but it was to make my opinion understood *
Wow! These are some well-written responses. Excellent work! Thank you for your great efforts.