Nervous work: how to keep balance?

Nervous work is a work associated with a significant nerve strain and often leading to professional stress,and in neglected cases - professional burnout. Nervous work happens in two main cases: either the profession itself is associated with stress at work, or stress is caused by working conditions (bad atmosphere in the team, mobbing in the workplace, tyrannical authorities, etc.).

Well and the most serious case - combination of both types of nervous work. The most striking example is work at school: working with children is not the most rewarding thing in itself, but when a fight with colleagues for hours and classroom management is added to it, and steel nerves can not stand it.

What professions are considered to be the most nervous? Psychologists identified several groups of professions,representatives who are most exposed to stress at work. Although at first glance, such professions seem harmless, and for many - very desirable.

Very nervous work for ... stars! Public people (actors, singers, TV presenters, political andpublic figures) are always in the center of attention, they need to constantly look irreproachable, to watch what and how they say. In addition, such work is associated with constant travel, a tight schedule and the inability to remove enough time for the family. Being a star is very tiring.

Nervous work and have creative individuals (writers, artists, composers) and scientists. It would seem - that there is a nervous, know yourself create or invent! But such people work is firmly intertwined with personal life, they immerse in it completely and often do not know how to rest at all. But the change of activity is needed not only for our body, but for the brain too, and it will not burn out for long.

We think that no one will argue that educators also very nervous work. Children are a very specific target audience, but the work of the teacher is not only the conduct of lessons. It is also the mountains of documentation, extracurricular activities, the need to constantly interact with the parents of students who usually appear in school when something is unhappy. Continuous stress.

In general, almost any work related to communication with people, - nervous work. Support staff, call center operators, sales consultants, customer service managers and representatives of many other professions are forced to face daily claims and rudeness, which are silently swallowed - at such work the employee must constantly be polite, even if he is openly rude.

Oh yes, we will not forget yet managers - they also have nervous work. Sometimes it may seem from the outside that the director does not do anything, but in fact he has a huge responsibility. In general, the higher the level of human responsibility, the more professional stress. If the worker crooked brick was laid, nothing terrible happened. But if the man who designed the whole building was mistaken ...

What if you have a nervous job? If all your nerves - not from the profession, but from the situation, there are several outputs:

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  change jobs (but note that if in tense relations with colleagues you are guilty, and not they, in the new place can be the same);
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  learn to manage your stress (stress management);
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  to look at things easier and not to be upset because of the little things (many of the problems we invent ourselves, making a molehill from an elephant).

If the matter is in the profession itself, everything is muchmore difficult. Changing attitudes toward work can to some extent help - but still work will remain nervous, albeit to a lesser extent. It's another matter whether you agree to this. If you love your job despite its shortcomings, we can advise clearly separate work and personal life, as far as possible - even from the most beloved work you need to rest.

If your work is not only nervous, but alsounloved (it often happens when you chose a specialty under the pressure of your parents, imitating friends or going wherever it's easiest to do), it's better to take a time-out, rest, and then, perhaps, change profession. Do not necessarily go to a radically differentsphere - you can try an adjacent profession, in which there are fewer "harmful" factors. For example, an English teacher who is tired of working with children can try himself as an interpreter.

Nervous work is a problem for many, but you do not need to think that you can not change everything!