How stressful is your job/life?

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

My job is a minimum of a five on a daily basis except for the month of July. In July it's a 1 or 2. 
In the spring time, it's a 9 or 10 daily. 

I do love my job. I am passionate about it and believe deeply in its importance to our society. 

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Job is 7-8 stress, but all internally induced by the chaotic organization. It should be a 4-5. Trying to step back and take it in stride is hard for me. I get frustrated with inefficiency and wasted effort. The business unfortunately has some immature leadership and causes unnecessary emergencies constantly. We are very understaffed for the business expectations, but they can't afford to staff for the manage by chaos model they are married to.

Personal Life is 2-3. No big issues.

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Home life is great- probably a 2. Empty nest, wonderful husband, son doing well, no financial worries.

Work varies. Right now it's about 9.5/10. I was put in charge of a new report (basically mining data we collect to see what's interesting) and the initial version I sent out 3 months ago was very well-received. The update is almost ready to go out and everybody and his brother has their hands in it. (My Dad, bless him, said when you're building a bandwagon you better make it a big one because everyone's going to want to jump on.) Everyone's an expert in how it shoudl look, how the commentary should read, etc. Yesterday I had someone checking out my SQL program that's been out there for 3 months. I spent 2 hours checking one aspect of the data where someone expressed "serious concern" and found one correction that barely creates a blip on the figures in the report. If I back away from the paranoid conspiracy theory, I'd say it's partly the bandwagon effect and partly the culture here. Everyone has a pile of urgent priorities and they don't get to things till the absolute last minute- which is why, suddenly when I'm trying to get this report out, everyone develops an avid interest.

After the dust settles, I plan to talk with my boss to figure out how we can avoid this next time. It won't help that I'll be on vacation for 2 weeks in July, coming back about 3 weeks before the next report is due to be released.

[daisy]

I work in an ICU so some days my job can go from a 1 to a 10 in the time it took to type this sentence.  I am not an RN so I certainly don't have their stress level, but as a department coordinator my position is working to decrease their stress levels as well as managing families who are usually stressed completely out.  

Most days are around a 2 or so unless there is family drama I have to coordinate, so work is mostly stress free.  Usually the longer a patient is in the ICU the more likely family stress increases and then explodes creating staff casualties.  Those are 10 days.

Home life can be the same.  DH and I get along well now that we have settled into being married to each other.  Stress comes from his two adult children and their issues.  But that is a whole 'nother thread!

Overall I am laid back (slacker/type B) so it takes a lot to get my stress level up.

[vonna]

My current life is blissfully non-stressful.  (Except for the stress two kiddos can induce at times!)

My previous working life ranged from about a 5 to a 10++.

My previous marriage blew my personal life stress off the charts.

Retirement fixed the work stress.

Divorce fixed the personal stress.

I enjoyed my single motherhood years immensely, and am still amazed that I am just as happy now remarried. If anything ever happens to DH, I don't think I would ever marry again. He would be a tough act to follow, plus I know I can be happy single.