职业压力状况大调查

Stressed out by your job and looking for a change? Chances are you work in media, and maybe should consider something in health care.

感到工作压力太大，想寻求改变？十有八九你是在媒体工作，也许你可以考虑从事保健行业。

A new report on the most, and least stressful professions, showed that more than half of the 10 least-stressful jobs are in the health care, led by audiologists（听力学家） , who assess and treat hearing disorders¹.

"Professions that involve low stress have very little danger and minimal² physical demands," said Tony Lee, publisher of careercast.com, a jobs website which compiled the report.

Other jobs in the field that fill the bill（符合要求） for low pressure and competition, with shorter work weeks, include dietician, dental hygienist, speech pathologist, occupational therapist and chiropractor（脊椎按摩师） .

Jobs in media, led by public relations executives, dominated the highest stress professions, according to the report, although commercial airline pilot topped the list.

"Jobs in communication can be high pressure," explained Lee, "especially for public relations executives handling crisis situations, newscasters who go on-air with little or no time for preparation and photojournalists working in dangerous environments."

Other high-stress positions included senior corporate³ executive, advertising⁴ account executive, architect and stockbroker⁵.

Software engineer, computer programmer and mathematician⁶ were all rated low-stress.

Among so-called blue-collar jobs, firefighter, police officer and taxi driver topped the high-stress list, while jobs such as bookbinders（装订工） , photo process workers, musical instrument repairers and auto⁷ assemblers are considered low-stress.

Researchers compiled the ranking by analyzing⁸ 200 different jobs on their environment, competitiveness and risk. They assigned a numerical value to factors that invoked⁹ stress, and whether or not that factor was central to the job being evaluated.

They also used data from the U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics and Trade Associations.