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I am a Marketing Manager for a Construction (piling) company. Although the company is relativly small, we are globally recignised as its such a niche market so im often delaing with clients in Japan and America (so have to get my times of day right!!). I also develop the website and have to do alot fo design work

I also do PA work for the MD when hes here!!

Id defo say OH has a more stressful job as i get away with Hitched and Facebook all day whereas hes banned from everything and works with actual clients in pensions !

If you can hold something up and put it down, it is called weight-lifting; if you can hold something up but can never put it down, it's called burden-bearing. Pitifully, most of people are bearing heavy burdens when they are in love.

WTF?!?!?

A philosophy student? Definitely one who should concentrate more on their studies of the great thinkers rather than spouting pseudo-intellectual inanity.

Im a midwife........when its good its good, but when its bad its horrendous....have to deal with a lot of heartbreaking stuff, but glad to say the good times generally outweigh the bad. My OH is a football coach, he thinks he's stressed at work, trying having someone bleeding to death on you or a baby not breathing....thats stress!

My job is definitely much more stressful than Mr C... he has a longer journey to work but also gets 13 weeks holiday a year!!!

OH and I are both solicitors and we work at the same firm. Although he's been qualified longer than I have and he's a director whereas I'm not, our day to day jobs are the same. He is more stressed than me though, and I think that's because I'm more efficient than he is, and manage my workload better.

Our job titles are the same, but I would say my job is more stressful - I am a one-man IT department, so when anything goes wrong there is only me to fix it and when I'm on leave I end up remoting into the servers to check they're doing what they should etc. OH works as part of a team so has others with more experience to turn to when things go wrong and cover for holidays etc.

I also work in the Charity Sector so there are limited funds for replacing clapped-out equipment until it stops working completly.

Me and my OH have about the same levels of stress, but different types IYSWIM. I have to deal with a bunch of managers and doctors who think Health and Safety is nothing to do with them, he has tight deadlines and code to deal with (and barristers - eek). We both have jobs where the work stacks up if we're not there as no-one else can/will do it for us. I was offered a new job the other week, and if the pay was better I might have taken it...

I'm a Paraplanner for a large Accountancy firm. Basically a Financial Adviser who does the work but doesn't actually see the client. Workloads are very stressful a lot of the time!

OHs job is way more stressful than mine - he is in the army and about to return to Aghan, so I guess that's no real suprise.

I have just quit my job (eek) but am a qualified accountant, and spent my time auditing or teaching accounting. At times my job was a lot more stressful than it needed to be because of my disorganised boss! My usual work hours are good, i'm flexible time wise etc, but my work was seasonal. So for example we take on about 200 new trainees in Sept and I had to train them all up at a basic level with a team of 3-6 others. We'd then have another 100 so in January and during these times we'd work 7am - 10pm, but we get back all the time, and it's only for 8 weeks at a time of that stress.

When OH isn't going away, his job is a breeze. They seem to spend most their time in the gym/smoking/sitting in classrooms!

We both have our own different stresses. Hers is more high pressured but I have worse management which makes even the simplest things difficult, and it seems that these days we can hardly go to the toilet without having a policy document or a strategy to follow.

We work together, same office! Im a manager and he is a deputy manager.

My job is more stressfull as utimatley the buck stops with me however he would say his is more sressful because he has so much to do whereas actually its becase he is so disorganised.

In my old job I would have said hands down that I had the more stressful job. I was a marketing exec working in events.

But since I quit it and am now temping, he probably has the more stressful job, though in the grand scheme of things I don't think his job is that stressful anyway. For example today he was sitting about the office watching the cricket in HD.

Lol that sounds like my sort of job!

I actually really need a new job, mine sucks. Low hours, crap pay.

celticgoddess- your OH does exactly what my OH would love to do, just not that easy to get into

H is in the army which of course has its stresses but like Little Madam said, alot of the time hes sat about drinking tea, playing games, not doing an awful lot! I tell ya the time to attack this country would be wednesday afternoon, when they finish early and go to the spa. Seriously! Whereas my job, even though its just your standard office administration job, sat on my ar$e, is uber stressful. Dealing with irate customers, meeting deadlines etc. Often come home with a headache.

I'd say OHs job is more stressful, but not to his face.

I'm a SAHM and he is a recruitment consultant. I find being a Mum really easy, but do tell him it's stressful. He does sometimes have it easy sometimes, when he goes off for posh lunches with clients etc, but I know it is stressfull when he has quite a few clients "on the go", or when something falls through.

I'd say ours are equally as stressful but at different times and with different pressures. I couldn't do his job and he couldn't do mine. Mix into the fact we're both self employed, are mid way through setting up a third business as well as some property 'issues' it makes for a very stressful (or alternatively, very laid back) household!

He's an economist, I'm a junior doctor (changing jobs tomorrow along with all the other juniors in the country, stay out of hospital people!) I definitely think mine is more stressful given the hours I do and the situations I find myself in. He may beg to differ, because the policy research and decisions he makes have massive potential knock-on effects on the whole economy, but I still envy his flexi-time, going in at 10.30, working from home when he feels like it...

Mine is more stressful. I work with children. I got puked on last week. Nuff said!

Seriously though, I think they're both stressful in different ways.
His is pretty high pressure right now. He makes and ships medical equipment for a very large and well known company, and at the moment there's too much work and not enough staff.
I run a 2-3's room at a day nursery, and although I love my job it's hard work. I look after 33 children over the week, and have to find time to observe, plan for and record sooooo much for them in that time. the pay's cr@p, it's unpredictable and we never get the recognition we deserve. But I wouldn't change it for the world, so can't be that bad! (Although I do work with 14 other women. ?)

My Job is def more stressful than OH, I am a teacher currently in nursery and responsible for 6 staff and max 110 children aged 3-5, anthing goes wrong its on my head OH manages school building I work in most of the time he does very little although sometimes he can be run off his feet if something goes wrong or needs done xx

OH's job is more stressful. He is in the RAF & is doing a pretty demanding desk job at the moment which often involves planning training exercises for serious bigwigs in Parliament. He gets very regular reviews & in the RAF you are EXPECTED to perform every day of your working life.

I'm a stay at home mum, run a dog sitting business & am a carer for live-in adults with learning difficulties as well as training horses. My hours are far longer as technically I am working 24/7 but generally I don't get stressed about things.

I wouldn't say that we have stressful jobs. I'm part of an administration team, and my OH works in Customer Services.

We both have days where we have a good moan about what's been happening, but i don't think we really get stressed about our jobs. I'm far too organised to get overloaded with work, and my OH is amazing at his job, so it doesn't stress him out.

I have a pretty stressful job in that I am surrounded by moany solicitors (sorry to all solicitors) all day who cannot seem to work out how to prioritise, nor do they understand that working from home means actually working and not dossing... Also, it is a Local Authority, so workload is the same, if not more but we have less people.

OH is training to be a manager at Southern Electric so has the all the poo stuff to go through and he deals with members of the public, at the moment who are pretty irate about the price increases. So I would say that his is the more stressful.

Travel Agent in my former working life. Now a stay-at-home Mum but this is a 24 hour job sometimes when the kids are ill and I'm needed all night long. This is the hardest job so far.