The Most Stressful Jobs

Airline Pilot

Airline pilots are responsible for dozens of lives at any given time while they are on the clock. Each passenger is precious cargo. Keeping passengers safe is the main job while in the air, but on the ground, pilots still have a lot of responsibilities. Their working hours are highly irregular, and they are prone to experiencing fatigue and jet lag, making themselves more vulnerable to various illnesses. While pilots do undergo extensive training that teaches them how to deal with these various stress factors, they can still be problematic when the pressure gets to be too much to cope with at one time.

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Police Officer

Police officers face dangers on a daily basis. Each situation that they get called into could go many different ways, and some of those ways have a high risk of harm to themselves or others. Law enforcement officials tend to deal with build-ups of stress over time, work very irregular schedules, experience sleep deprivation, and have to deal with the fact they cannot solve every issue going on within their communities. They also have to deal with the pitfalls of the criminal justice practices and work to combat negative perceptions of law enforcement officials depicted in the media.

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