97.3 The Dawg » stressful jobs

Whiny, Disgruntled Employee's Scathing Email Goes Viral

Kathy Landin — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 01:28:20 +0000

Weâ€™ve all dreamed of doing it. That final â€œin-your-faceâ€ speech to the boss as we walk out the door of a thankless job. The verbal middle finger we spend those late nights and working holidays composing but never get to utter out loud. One man decided his time had come and made his final mass [...]

Could Your Stressful Job Be Aging You?

Shauna Wright — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:26:53 +0000

If you feel older than your years, maybe your job is to blame. New research proves stress at work could actually make your cells age at an accelerated rate. In a recent study, Kirsi Ahola of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health focused on DNA sections called telomeres, tail-like sequences that cap the ends of [...]

What Are Lafayette's Least Stressful Jobs?

Bruce Mikells — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:50:29 +0000

Let me give you a minute to formulate your own list of jobs that you would consider to be among Lafayette's least stressful jobs. I am guessing Speed Van Operator, or the person that has to answer Tony Trammel's phone or any former volunteer for the housing authority probably wouldn't make the list. But since we tend to follow fairly closely with the national trends we feel fairly certain that these are the careers you'd want to choose, if you don't want gray hair or the dire need for a drink at quitting time.