I hate giving presentations. I get so stressed out. As long as I practice and prepare, I'm usually fine. If I don't, I completely bomb. I stutter when I'm nervous.
Just presented this morning. I'm so happy to have that off my chest for a few months.
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I tell people they've been diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.
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@grizz: I can't imagine.
Probably when I have to tell someone they've been denied benefits or their case has closed (especially for food stamps, and especially when they have kids...)
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Getting leads.
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Just the sheer volume of work and never ending a day feeling like I've completed everything! It's like 10 jobs in 1.
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@cmomma17: exactly this...and the weekend committments. I think I have 2 completely free weekends this summer...and summer is supposed to be my down time
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phone calls - hate em.
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When I have a lot of travel, I don't love being away for long. Also super short deadlines and non-responsive clients are killer too
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@owlteach: ugh, yes, the weekends are the worst!
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Managing brides and their expectations...
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@grizz: ouch.
Usually the hardest part of my job is not having enough time to give quality care to my patients. I can give the care they need in a safe way, but don't have time to sit and talk with or comfort them, which really sucks.
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@cmomma17: this.exactly.
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Working in a room with 35 twelve and thirteen year olds.
In all actuality, the most stressful part of my job is juggling all the different subjects I teach, being a department chair, after school programs. Essentially, wearing so many hats.
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Not being able to help/change/raise amazing students who are in really shitty life situations....
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Mean and unreasonable clients
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@Mrs. Taco: Yes, this. I have 5 year old students tell me some of the things going on at home and it's so upsetting
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Transitioning pts to hospice when they aren't ready. Or telling them about newly recurrent/metastatic disease. (Onc NP)
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The constant threat of lawsuit from angry clients and parents (I'm do rehab in schools and hospitals).
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@mrs.taco: @lilteacherbee: Agreed.
Watching sweet, loving kids become hardened and angry as they grow up.
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Regulatory audits. When my people are responsible for making sure the rules are followed!
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When my patients decompensate and require a higher level of care.
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Working multiple nights a month.
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Short deadlines and sometimes office politics. I am hoping my new job has less of both!
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@Mrs. Taco: Yeah, that part sucks too! I do get to spend a lot of time outside of school with them, and get to take them on different trips, showing them things and giving them experiences they wouldn't have otherwise. That part is pretty awesome
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Telling people they have terminal illnesses and CAS (children's aid) cases.
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@Mrs. Taco: @owlteach: @Katrocap: This is certainly the saddest part of our jobs. Witnessing bullying that will scar them for life is pretty awful, too. I love my job but it wears on the heart sometimes.
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@grizz: yeah you win the 'shitty job duty award' not that it's much of an award
Mine is just the constant hamster wheel of the job. I fill two positions only to have 4 open requisitions the next day. I never feel like I actually accomplish anything.
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@Meridian: ditto! Are you a wedding planner as well? I only do part time and it can be so so stressful! You never know what kind of bride you get from one week to the next!
I also have another full time job and I hate not being able to help some people or listening to them cry
I'm a police dispatcher.
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In an acute way: medical emergencies. We do mostly routine, well, outpatient care so emergencies are thankfully few and far between. When they come up I always spend the rest of the day shaky, nauseous, and hyper aware.
In a chronic way: having to work with mean physicians (and apologize to patients for their abrasiveness).
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In my current job - nothing. It's the easiest, least stressful job ever!
In my new job, I'm pretty sure it will be managing people.
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My job is usually not too stressful, but sometimes I'm tasked with a project that I'm unfamiliar with and have no idea how to get started and I freak out for a bit before I get going on it.
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I WAH, so the most stressful part is when babysitting goes awry or my older LO is sick and home from school and I have to juggle kids/deadlines.
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when people become (verbally) aggressive or escalated toward me (usually because I've just informed them of some kind of natural consequences for their decisions / behaviors, or that they require a higher level of care due to relapse or decompensation).
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waiting on other SME inputs to meet a client deadline. outside of my control!
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Sudden meetings or deadlines w/ no advance warning! My company is not very organized...
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Dealing with clients who are difficult and ask for revision after revision but are never happy.
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Dealing with a very difficult coworker. She goes in spurts and will be fine one day, and a complete terror the next. She's extremely stuck in her ways and has such a strange personality. I laugh at it now, our boss is scared of her, and she's moved on to terrorizing the "new" girl instead of me
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Managing all of the different personalities within my role. There are some giant egos within my company and believe it or not, within my vendors that make managing a challenge.
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When I have to present or discuss something with C-level execs. I interact with them on a regular basis, but when it comes time to report something not so good, they frighten me.
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Definitely the deadlines I have. I don't think I have ever had a flexible one and sometimes I have to turn things around ridiculously fast. It's also pretty common to have more things thrown in with the same deadline and each task is as important as the other one. Some days (most days lately) I leave here with intense pain in my shoulders just from the stress.
I've been a contractor for the past 3 years and I have loved it but now I'm starting to feel the stress of not knowing where my next contract will be. I'm thinking it's time to look for something permanent.
ETA: My boss right now is a total nightmare too, which doesn't help!
In all actuality, the most stressful part of my job is juggling all the different subjects I teach, being a department chair, after school programs. Essentially, wearing so many hats.
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