Do you bring work stress home?

Generally no...although currently working a lot from home (in addition to my full time job) so cant help bringing work home.

That said I used to work in hotels/hospitality and nothing really seems that stressful in comparison.

Not usually. I like to forget about it as soon as I'm done. OH, on the other hand, is a complete stress head and can never let things go. It keeps him in a bad mood until I find some way to snap him out of it.

Yes if ive had a bad day i do bring my stressful mood home. I Just cant help it. Plus i have loads of paper work to do at home. Some days i do wonder if its all worth it, then other days i love my job.

All the time! That's normal isn't it? I have a stressful job and I can't always leave it at the office.

It's normal for me. It can be different types though-the worst is when there are lots of bad issues to deal with that gives a sense of dead for going in the next day (fortunately rarely) = negative stress.. A lot of the time, it is through being busy-but for me that gives me the drive, and generates lots more ideas (quite often in the shower!) = positive stress.

Does that make sense?

Much less in my current job. When I was working in medicine/ITU I would worry about patients I had seen, and sometimes call back to the ward/the on-call doctor to get them to check something.

Now I'm in anaesthetics, most of the bad stuff that could happen is going to happen while I'm still there, so I don't have to worry too much about what happens after I've woken them up and gone home.

Yes, as a nurse I find it's hard not to. If its been a bad day, it's been busy, we've had rude families or frustrating phone calls with doctors or managers, or worse one of the children has crashed and it leaves you with a horrible adrenaline rush. Luckily my H also works in a hospital so he understands everything when I offload. It's not unknown when you're on a night shift for someone to phone in saying they've forgotten to handover something. It can be hard to switch off.

My work doesn't have a direct impact on individuals (in Finance). I can imagine that it would be hard to switch off/'forget' about them.

Forgot to say - I can rarely talk to OH about work because he is so squeamish. I have some fab friends who I can offload to when I see them, but I always feel like I have to tread on eggshells talking to OH if there's anything remotely "icky" involved.

I don't really bring stress home but If a 'service user' is ill, I worry, but it just makes me a bit quiet. Also OH helps when people I've been visiting for a long time die, it's impossible to not be upset.

I do my absolute best to switch off as soon as I leave work, and I'm much better at it than I used to be. It's not easy though when something bad happens. A patient had a fall on Monday when I was with her (first time it's ever happened to me) and I still feel guilty about it now.

Kind of glad it's not just me.

I do totally but try not to. Didn't realise what a miserable *** I was being really until I stepped out of a situation. Had a torrid time at work with a bullying boss, and finally got up the courage to complain and then circumstances were that she left. Those 8 months or so she wa s there made me miserable and anxious and feel sad I inflicted this on my lovely OH

I've generally de-stressed by the time he gets home as I get in 30 mins to 3 hours earlier than he does (depending on his shift and when I leave work). Unless it's 'weeks' like this one where I've done 12 long days in a row, but that's more tiredness.

I try not to let it bother me, although some things stay with me and can often go round in my head for a bit. If I am bothered by it then I can be a bit snappy towards oh - poor thing!

If I've taught a particularly difficult class that day it will play on my mind for a few hours. When on placement (and in a permanent job if I ever get one) it's hard not to bring work stress home because of the amount of planning/marking that needs to be done at home.

I try not to but when I've had a long stressful day of moaning customers and getting in at gone midnight I generally tend to be tired and grumpy. Throw in some pregnancy hormones and it's not always easy to be in a good mood.