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There are many kind of jobs. Amazing jobs, bad jobs and dangerous jobs.

• This graph shows various dangerous jobs:
  
  
  
  
  

  The 10 most dangerous jobs

  Occupation Fatalities per 100,000 Timber cutters 117.8 Fishers 71.1 Pilots and navigators 69.8 Structural metal workers 58.2 Drivers-sales workers 37.9 Roofers 37 Electrical power installers 32.5 Farm occupations 28 Construction laborers 27.7 Truck drivers 25



• Some information about who work affect people:
  
  -40% of workers reported their job was very or extremely stressful;
  -25% view their jobs as the number one stressor in their lives;
  -Three fourths of employees believe that workers have more on-the-job stress than a generation ago;
  -29% of workers felt quite a bit or extremely stressed at work;
  -26 percent of workers said they were "often or very often burned out or stressed by their work";
  -Job stress is more strongly associated with health complaints than financial or family problems.

• More recently, the 2000 annual "Attitudes In The American Workplace VI" Gallup Poll sponsored by the Marlin Company found that:
  
  -80% of workers feel stress on the job, nearly half say they need help in learning how to manage stress and 42% say their coworkers need such help;
  -14% of respondents had felt like striking a coworker in the past year, but didn't;
  -25% have felt like screaming or shouting because of job stress, 10% are concerned about an individual at work they fear could become violent; 9% are aware of an assault or violent act in their workplace and 18% had experienced some sort of threat or verbal intimidation in the past year.
  


• A subsequent 2000 Integra Survey similarly reported that:
  
  -65% of workers said that workplace stress had caused difficulties and more than 10 percent described these as having major effects;
  -10% said they work in an atmosphere where physical violence has occurred because of job stress and in this group, 42% report that yelling and other verbal abuse is common;
  -29% had yelled at co-workers because of workplace stress, 14% said they work where machinery or equipment has been damaged because of workplace rage and 2% admitted that they had actually personally struck someone;
  -19% or almost one in five respondents had quit a previous position because of job stress and nearly one in four have been driven to tears because of workplace stress;
  -62% routinely find that they end the day with work-related neck pain, 44% reported stressed-out eyes, 38% complained of hurting hands and 34% reported difficulty in sleeping because they were too stressed-out;
  -12% had called in sick because of job stress;
  

• Over half said they often spend 12-hour days on work related duties and an equal number frequently skip lunch because of the stress of job demands.

sources:http://www.stress.org/job.htm
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/invest/extra/P63405.asp
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/career-articles-8_bad_work_habits_and_how_to_break_them-632
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