If your New Year’s resolution is to freshen up the old resume and change jobs, then you need to check out these lists. CareerCast ranked 200 different professions to determine which careers are the most stressful and they found that many of the high-stress professions have two things in common --there's almost always some sort of ongoing stress, and there's also unpredictable periods of high stress.
The jobs were ranked in terms of travel, deadlines, working with the public, competitiveness, physical demands, environmental conditions, hazards and potential to grow in the job.
So if you need a little stress for a kick starter to get you going you may want to consider one of these top 10 most stressful jobs. The stress level, on a scale of 1-100, and the average salary is included so you can decide if the stress is worth the money!
10. Taxi Driver: 46/100; $23.2K/year
9. Newspaper Reporter: 47/100; $37.2K/year
8. Broadcaster: 47/100; $29K/year
7. Senior Corporate Executive: 47/100; $102.7K/year
6. Public Relations Executive: 48/100; $55.8K/year
5. Event Coordinator: 50/100; $46,5K /year
4. Police Officer: 54/100; $58,6K /year
3. Airline Pilot: 60/100; $103.4K /year
2. Firefighter: 61/100; $46K /year
1. Enlisted Military Personnel: 85/100; $27.9K /year
And then there are those jobs were feathers are seldom ruffled. The Top 10 Low stress jobs are:

10. Librarian: 11/100; $56.2K /year
9. Dietitian: 10/100; $57K /year
8. Audiologist: 9/100; $73K /year
7. Jeweler: 9/100; $36.9K /year
6. Medical Laboratory Technician: 9/100; $49K /year
5. Medical Records Technician: 8/100; $35.9K /year
4. Hair Stylist: 7/100; $23.2K /year
3. University Professor (tenured): 7/100; $70.8K /year
2. Diagnostic Medical Sonographer: 4/100; $62.5K /year
1. Information Security Analyst: 4/100; $88.9K /year

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