10 Depression-Prone Jobs

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15 Dec 2010, 12:20 pm

I came across this article today about 10 Careers/Jobs with the Highest Rates of Depression and wanted to share it because some of us already have to battle depression and hardly need a job or jobs that will only makes it worse.

1. Nursing Home/Child Care Workers

2. Food Service Staff - Waiters/Servers, etc...

3. Social Workers

4. Health Care Workers - Doctors, Nurses, Therapists, etc...

5. Artists, Entertainers, Writers

6. Teachers

7. Administrative Support Staff

8. Maintenance and Ground Workers

9. Financial Advisors and Accountants

10. Salespeople

EDIT: To add new link for an article about the study.
http://gawker.com/5710624/the-10-most-d ... in-america

Do you agree or disagree? Have you worked in some of these jobs or jobs which are similar? Do you feel there are other jobs which cause depression too?

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15 Dec 2010, 12:24 pm

Taupey wrote:

6. Teachers

9. Financial Advisors and Accountants

10. Salespeople

I disagree with these.

I know many teachers who are very happy with their jobs - only the s**t ones become depressed, because they're unable to control their classes.

I also talked to quite a few accountants who like their work, and they shared some pretty interesting work related stories with me too.

Sales people, too, have stories to tell, and they tend to have a knack for their work if they're good at what they do, in which case they'll find themselves moving up pretty quickly.

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15 Dec 2010, 12:38 pm

My mom is a nurse and she likes her job. It gets stressful at times she says. She tells her patients to call if she isn't back in ten minutes and she also has to write things down so she can remember. That happens on busy days.

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15 Dec 2010, 2:28 pm

Asp-Z wrote:

Taupey wrote:

6. Teachers

9. Financial Advisors and Accountants

10. Salespeople

I have taught music/piano and loved it. So I understand what you're saying Asp-Z.

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15 Dec 2010, 3:06 pm

Taupey wrote:

I came across this article today about 10 Careers/Jobs with the Highest Rates of Depression and wanted to share it because some of us already have to battle depression and hardly need a job or jobs that will only makes it worse.

1. Nursing Home/Child Care Workers

2. Food Service Staff - Waiters/Servers, etc...

3. Social Workers

4. Health Care Workers - Doctors, Nurses, Therapists, etc...

5. Artists, Entertainers, Writers

6. Teachers

7. Administrative Support Staff

8. Maintenance and Ground Workers

9. Financial Advisors and Accountants

10. Salespeople

http://www.aolhealth.com/condition-cent ... k3%7C31050

Do you agree or disagree? Have you worked in some of these jobs or jobs which are similar? Do you feel there are other jobs which cause depression too?

It's an interesting list, but I don't think they are share the same cause and effect dynamic. Artists and entertainers, for example, include a disproportionate amount of people prone to depression to start with, since "angst" is often and important factor driving artistic creation. Financial advisers and accountants are in fields that include a lot of people who made a choice based on perceived income potential, without actually having a real interest in the work itself, so there is a portion of people in the field who are kind of mismatched from the start, and that would drive depression for those in the mismatched group. A lot of the heath care and social work is depressing by and of itself, by the nature of the work. People go into it to help people, but there are so many that just can't be helped, and that drives depression. I guess the point being, you can't just look at the list and say, "stay away from these and reduce the odds of getting depressed!" (not to say anyone here would reach that conclusion, but I could see how it might be tempting).

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15 Dec 2010, 3:44 pm

That's why I gave the link to the article.

It talks about some of those in the arts, entertainment and writing jobs having mood disorders and bipolar.

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15 Dec 2010, 7:01 pm

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8. Maintenance and Ground Workers

Oh? That's one that seems nice; outdoors mowing a lawn or two, chopping some hedges or power lines, making rock sculptures, shooting vagrants. Sounds like a laugh.

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15 Dec 2010, 7:23 pm

Taupey wrote:

That's why I gave the link to the article.

It talks about some of those in the arts, entertainment and writing jobs having mood disorders and bipolar.

I should spend more time following links and less sharing my opinions

Off to actually read the article now ...

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Edit: didn't come up for me? Is that just my browser?

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15 Dec 2010, 8:10 pm

I'm a writer, and it does get lonely sometimes even when not writing about angst. There is just very little outside interaction during the actual writing process.

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16 Dec 2010, 12:47 am

DW_a_mom wrote:

Taupey wrote:

That's why I gave the link to the article.

It talks about some of those in the arts, entertainment and writing jobs having mood disorders and bipolar.

I should spend more time following links and less sharing my opinions

Off to actually read the article now ...

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Edit: didn't come up for me? Is that just my browser?

I have no idea what happened to the article but there are a number of articles about the same study which I believe was first reported in Health Magazine. If you google 10 depressing jobs, you'll get many articles about it.
Here's a link to one article about it.
http://gawker.com/5710624/the-10-most-d ... in-america

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16 Dec 2010, 1:01 am

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I was a paramedic, lab tech and a nursing major once upon a time, and I have worked in many different health care positions. I loved working in the medical field but there were times when it could get depressing. Of course some positions were better than others and the places that had the best management and positive support for the staff were easier to work for.

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16 Dec 2010, 1:05 am

Arman_Khodaei wrote:

I'm a writer, and it does get lonely sometimes even when not writing about angst. There is just very little outside interaction during the actual writing process.

I was engaged to a political writer who would go for a walk everyday and out to eat every evening so he wouldn't feel so isolated.

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16 Dec 2010, 1:07 am

Moog wrote:

Taupey wrote:

8. Maintenance and Ground Workers

Oh? That's one that seems nice; outdoors mowing a lawn or two, chopping some hedges or power lines, making rock sculptures, shooting vagrants. Sounds like a laugh.

haha aha...

I know huh.

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16 Dec 2010, 9:14 pm

I have teached music a while also and really liked. I miss teaching a lot.

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18 Dec 2010, 5:31 pm

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Add a 11th one computer and laser printer service techs. very frustrating job.

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19 Dec 2010, 5:32 am

Regarding the Gawker link, I think a pretty depressing job at the moment would be working for Gawker fixing all the security holes they've just had exploited

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