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The least stressful job...

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  • #62
    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,145 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    Work at the change counter in an arcade, they're the most listless people I've ever seen.


  • #63
    The_Gatsby
    Registered Users Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭The_Gatsby


    Teacher? They do **** all!


  • #64
    IzzyWizzy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,645 ✭✭✭IzzyWizzy


    Lukebray wrote: »
    Teacher? They do **** all!

    Hope you're joking. I'm so tired I could collapse right now.


  • #65
    sfwcork
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭sfwcork


    susan boyles gynaecologist


  • #66
    Calibos
    Registered Users Posts: 7,796 ✭✭✭Calibos


    Karsini wrote: »
    I knew someone would say this. :pac:

    Driving trams or trains isn't exactly easy. Especially with the Luas in the city centre, where jaywalkers provide an extra challenge. You have to keep full concentration at all times. You need to know your route inside out - the location of every station, speed limit (permanent or temporary), level crossing, accommodation crossing, you name it.

    Would still love to do it though.

    Know your route inside out???

    That's a lot of left and right turns to remember!!


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  • #67
    Satts
    Registered Users Posts: 816 ✭✭✭Satts


    Karsini wrote: »
    Driving trams or trains isn't exactly easy. Especially with the Luas in the city centre, where jaywalkers provide an extra challenge. You have to keep full concentration at all times. You need to know your route inside out - the location of every station, speed limit (permanent or temporary), level crossing, accommodation crossing, you name it.


    I thought the train passed through every station. :D


  • #68
    KyussBishop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭KyussBishop


    Darwin wrote: »
    If you are in game development, ever hear of crunch time? Can go on forever in some studios, definitely not stress free.
    Indeed, which is the area I am in, though thankfully I'm not ever in a position where I have to go into crunch mode :) (not yet at least)


  • #69
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Mine.

    It's taken.


  • #70
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 13,994 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    fluffer


  • #71
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Calibos wrote: »
    Know your route inside out???

    That's a lot of left and right turns to remember!!

    I don't mean that. You have to know where all the speed limits are. Unlike in a car, you can't just slow down when you see the sign up ahead. In some cases you need to begin braking anything up a mile before the limit. You could have a situation where a 100mph limit becomes 60 due to a tight curve - if you forget it then you're off the rails.

    I know that on Irish Rail, failing to stop at a scheduled station is treated as severely as running a red light. In either case, you're immediately suspended and re-assessed.

    Accommodation crossings are another big problem. These are used by farmers for crossing their animals across the tracks. Many farmers don't bother closing the gates, with the result that stray cattle could end up on the tracks. Over time you learn which crossings are problematic and know whether to slow down, stop, blast the horn or whatever.

    On the Luas, you also have the added responsibility of setting the track points yourself. There's no signalman to do it for you.


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  • #72
    franktheplank
    Registered Users Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭franktheplank


    FionnMcCool87 wrote: »
    Ryan Tubridy's dietitian

    Ryan Tubridy's talent manager.


  • #73
    justaskin likeyakno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭justaskin likeyakno


    Check out the check out staff thread, scan, beep, money, change, next, scan, beep, money, change, next....repeat, repeat, repeat...

    I had a job that I hated, I left and found a job that was good, near home, hours I could manage, nice co workers......what,s the catch.....


    The boss is a complete fooking wankker, he hates, hates, hates, his job and takes it out on us.


    The moral of the story being, a job is only as stressful or as stress free as you make it, because I was going to leave this job but actually learnt to deal with spanner man instead.


  • #74
    Calibos
    Registered Users Posts: 7,796 ✭✭✭Calibos


    Karsini wrote: »
    I don't mean that............

    I know;)


  • #75
    TOMP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 328 ✭✭TOMP


    The guy from KPMG who acts as 'independent observer' for the weekly Lotto draw. I want that job.


  • #76
    uberalles
    Registered Users Posts: 836 ✭✭✭uberalles


    From another thread .....

    http://www.independent.ie/national-n...s-3325806.html

    Originally Posted by :
    TWO men working for a repossession company were told to strip and get into a pen with a wild boar after a confrontation with a farmer, a court has been told.

    "He said to us that we had met the devil and he told me he would take my head off and eat it. He said if we were willing to strip we could walk down the road naked," said Mr Tighe.

    The witness, who told the court he is receiving treatment for post-traumatic stress, said Mr Connaughton instructed one of the farm workers to bring out a boar and "fire her up". He said that the animal was prodded and became more agitated.

    He added that Mr Connaughton asked them which of them was man enough to get into the pen with the wild boar. He added that the boar would show them what happens to inmates in prison.

    Mr Tighe said they continued to plead to be allowed to leave. He said they could if they got on their knees and recited the 'Our Father', which they did.
    Keeping in mind these are just accusations at this time... but fcukin' hell!! :pac:

    I have to say its probably one of the worst jobs you could have working for repossesion company


  • #77
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Don't you just hate when a good raconteur gets interrupted by cricket and you never get to hear how the story ends

    I'd do it for the cakes alone!


  • #78
    Thoie
    Registered Users Posts: 6,344 ✭✭✭Thoie


    How about office cleaning? Quiet, indoor work, usually not too many people to deal with. Keeps you physically active, and as long as you actually clean stuff, relatively little hassle.

    Most office toilets are in better nick than somewhere like a nightclub, and the rest of the job is mostly vacuuming and dusting.

    Or lollipop lady - though that's more of a part time job, with presumably part time wages.


  • #79
    shuyin1
    Registered Users Posts: 369 ✭✭shuyin1


    TOMP wrote: »
    The guy from KPMG who acts as 'independent observer' for the weekly Lotto draw. I want that job.

    That's his break, he goes back to work afterwards!!


  • #80
    smileyj1987
    Registered Users Posts: 5,325 ✭✭✭smileyj1987


    A life on Benefits , free healthcare and housing what more could you want !


  • #81
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Film classifier. Sit in a room with copies of the latest releases and scribble the odd note. Cake and coffee thrown in.


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  • #82
    Shinaynay
    Registered Users Posts: 225 ✭✭Shinaynay


    look, reality is, unless youre running your own playdough factory that has no deadlines or targets, youre going to experience stress in any job.


  • #83
    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    Shinaynay wrote: »
    look, reality is, unless youre running your own playdough factory that has no deadlines or targets, youre going to experience stress in any job.

    Thanks for playdough factory, I hadn't thought of that before. Might be a winner.


  • #84
    The Dublin Whale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭The Dublin Whale


    Greenkeeper, out in the fresh air all day, would keep you fit so no need to go to a gym in that job, you could keep a naggin of whiskey on you and sip from it during the colder weather


  • #85
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,381 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Lukebray wrote: »
    Teacher? They do **** all!

    Teaching isn't stressful? Say what you want about teaching but only a full blown retard would think it's stress-free.


  • #86
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Food critic. Eat food for free and write about it tasted.


  • #87
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    You think food critic was low stress and yet the number of bitchy even hostile encounters between critic, cook, owners and some of the public suggests otherwise.


  • #88
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,684 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    mike65 wrote: »
    Film classifier. Sit in a room with copies of the latest releases and scribble the odd note. Cake and coffee thrown in.
    Ah but imagine it back in the old days before there was internet or even videos and lots of books were banned, and you were allowed to cut out and keep all the really good bits.

    Living the dream


  • #89
    redandwhite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 105 ✭✭redandwhite


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Teaching isn't stressful? Say what you want about teaching but only a full blown retard would think it's stress-free.

    You can't blame him for his lack of intelligence.

    I blame the teachers.


  • #90
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    smileyj1987 wrote: »
    A life on Benefits , free healthcare and housing what more could you want !

    The definition of "job".


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  • #91
    humbert
    Registered Users Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Teaching isn't stressful? Say what you want about teaching but only a full blown retard would think it's stress-free.
    Or someone who's been to school and sat through class after class as teachers mumbled apathetically through textbooks hardly even bothering to acknowledge the students in front of them.


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