Saturday, 31 October 2009
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Stressful Jobs that Pay Badly
Social worker: $43,200
Special events coordinator: $35,900
Probation/parole officer: $38,400
News reporter: $32,900
Music ministry director: $40,800
Membership manager: $42,600
Fundraiser: $42,700
Commercial photographer: $43,600
Assisted living director: $46,000
Minister: $45,300
Marriage/family therapist: $44,400
Curator: $46,500
Substance abuse counselor: $32,400
Film/TV producer: $47,600
High school teacher: $43,000Source: CNN.com
What do you think is the most stressful job with low salaries that should be on this list?
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Tim Hortons worker. Minimum wage. People before their morning coffee.
i think those are just the avg salary for each profession. some of the occupations listed are very lucrative! and even if they aren't, a lot of the jobs mentioned seem like a lot of fun (photographer/journalist/teacher/etc).
Any sort of fast food. Minimum wage, thousands of cranky people who yell and swear at you. Sometimes they'll make fun of YOU personally, and frankly, that just sucks.
Business Coaching @ $225/hr.
Ooooh... Definitely can relate! My mom is a Music Ministry Director and she always has a lot of work when it comes to rehearsals and planning concerts. She gets paid roughly $1,000 a month. (She teaches the adult choir, youth choir, and handbells.) She gets three to four weeks off a year and she still gets up for work when she's sick. x_x
Freelance artist.
The profession I am in training for is number one. From what I have seen because people with graduate level degrees as social workers are only earning 40,000, this is why this position makes the list. Furthermore, because the list consists of professional jobs lacking in financial growth is why these can be considered low paid and stressful jobsl-it's different from your high school job of working at Burger King or McD's. People put their hearts, educational training, and time into these jobs and stresses and are underpaid and in debt from their efforts. People are expected to raise families, own homes/rent, pay other bills and make a living off of meager wages in these careers. Something needs to change in America for sure. Monetary reward for our hard work is needed!
i'm a claims adjuster, my work is based purely on customer service and it's probably the most stressful job i've had so far because you're constantly giving people bad news. the pay sucks. the average claims adjuster starts at $35k. you're not only servicing customers but agents, attorneys and third party carrier.
My mom is a manager at Macy's. Although she get's paid a little more than these jobs. She is so stressed especially during "visits"-- when different brands and the higher ups visit their products and displays.
Also from the beginning of October to January, she can't take days off or vacations because the store is putting up taking down Christmas. She also works really late hours during this time.
I'm getting my msw right now. I wanna be a social worker because I love working with my kids and it just makes me happy. I don't do it for the money
@Ex_Adyto_Cordis@xanga -
yea but the job is very stressful actually...dealing w parents, students, administration....and we work many hours after school...tons of paper work..a teacher's job doesn't end when they leave the school.
i think minimum wage fast food jobs are the worst...
My future profession is on there--Marriage/Family Therapist. However, that doesn't seem like a low salary to me; it's actually a HUGE improvement on what I grew up with. Of course, when you're in a family of 7 headed by an often-unemployed carpenter, even just $25,000 a year seems like a great idea. $44,400 is the big money.
Retail Sales Associate... or Customer Service Representative! Those should DEFINITELY be on there.
A Nurse.
@insert_label_here_003@xanga - Agreed.
@Lilyofdavalley84@xanga - I agree that teaching is very stressful and requires a lot of work.
teaching is very stressful, they have the big responsibility of making sure their students academically excel,
since kids are our future.
@Ex_Adyto_Cordis@xanga - Honestly, as the daughter of a Jr. High Social Studies teacher, and the sister of a HS English teacher, and a sister-in-law of a HS Math teacher, you (and apparently the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research) haven't really seen an accurate portrayal of what a teacher's work hours are really like!
The school day may be only 6-8 hours long, but then there is today's homework to grade as well as tomorrow's homework and learning aids (worksheets, visual aids to a particular lesson, etc.) to prepare. Then you might have a student who needs extra time for tutoring assistance or other mentoring. When the financial problems hit, coaching was often part of the workday (like getting another part-time job). Can we agree that a 40 hour week is seldom routine in this job situation from mid August to mid June?
Now, once summer arrives, you have workshops that you have to complete in order to learn any changes in curriculum. Those take anywhere from two to six weeks and might involve traveling expenses that are NOT usually paid by the school. Or they are not paid in entirety. Add that many educators will take some college classes to augment their credentials so that they can get an increase in salary sometime before they are too burnt out to care anymore.
And that income? There were a lot of times that we kids helped Dad and his friends look for books to put in his classroom from Goodwill stores during the summer (when he had the most free time to do it). At least a month BEFORE the classrooms had students in them, he'd begin working on the lesson plans for the next year, and would have to submit some paperwork when he returned for the staff meetings that the Principal would have. There was always something sprung on the teachers that would significantly change their expectations of how to manage the student body during that week, too.
Both my sister and her husband LEFT teaching to get jobs that pay better, and don't involve dealing with dangerous and rowdy students (dangerous, since my brother-in-law had girls trying to seduce him, and they were trying to get him in situations where it would only be their word against his!). They regret not having the chance to positively impact young minds, and they miss being able to show clever minds the glints of things they know; but the price is just too high for them to pay, and the rewards too few.
Those aren't bad paying jobs. Almost 50% of the US makes less than most of those people.
damn,
@Ex_Adyto_Cordis@xanga - But their jobs last well into their personal time, because of all the grading they do. your comment is very interesting, i didn't know that at all, but i still think that teachers deserve to be paid more, they do so much to help people's lives.
Hmm... highschool teacher does not sound too bad. Maybe it just depends on where your teaching at. I am sure that some areas will be stressful though.
Paramedics/EMT's. We are pulling people out of cars on the freeway, we get assaulted by people as we try to help their family member, we are exposed to the most dangerous conditions and diseases. 24 hour shifts with no hazard pay. There is the physical stress, and the emotional trauma. Its true, we love what we do, and I can't imagine doing anything else, but for saving lives we're getting a janitor salary. And top pay, unless you are a supervisor is around $40,000-50,000 a year.
@IMChurchmouse@xanga - @PenaltyLife@xanga - I agree that teachers work 40+ hours, but the study took that into account and stated that many other professions do this as well. I'm contesting the claim that American teachers are underpaid. Simple supply and demand shows they are not: if teaching didn't pay enough, nobody would apply to teaching jobs and schools would have to raise wages. But teaching is in high demand. The number of applications per single position shows that: Boston 4:1, L.A. 5:1, New York 6:1, Kentucky 11:1, Chicago 12:1, Missouri 19:1.
Here is where I got those numbers.