They’re responsible for hundreds of lives everyday, they don’t get to see their families properly for months and they work the oddest and longest hours.
With that kind of job description it’s not too surprising to hear that pilots rank high among this year’s most stressful jobs.
The latest CareerCasts’s annual Most Stressful Jobs report found pilots to have the third most high pressure roles after those who put their lives on the line in the military and those that save lives as firefighters.
According to the study, pilots, military and firefighters experience a number of the 11 job demand that can evoke stress, including travel, physical demands, risk of death, immediate risk of another’s life, deadlines and working in the public eye.
In addition to feeling sympathy for the guys who fly us from point A to point B, industry professionals may also like to show a little love to the guys that organise our beloved events, because they have the fifth most stressful job this year followed by newspaper reporters, corporate executives AND public relations executives.
The report found publicists are under a lot of pressure because their job is crisis related and their services most required during ‘damage control’ – imagine how the Tigerair PR team has been feeling over the last week with all those Bali cancellations.
“When the end goal is out of your control, it becomes stressful. Clients who don’t understand how the industry works when you explain this to them only add to the stress,” ” Christina Nicholson, owner of MediaMavenAndMore said.
Here’s the full list of the 10 most stressful jobs of 2017 and their stress scores:
- Enlisted military personnel: 72.74
- Firefighter: 72.68
- Airline pilot: 60.54
- Police officer: 51.68
- Event coordinator: 51.15
- Newspaper reporter: 49.9
- Corporate executive (senior): 48.56
- Public relations executive: 48.5
- Taxi driver: 48.18
- Broadcaster: 47.93