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150 Best Low-Stress Jobs | 
 enlarge | Author: Laurence Shatkin
Publisher: JIST Works
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 231937
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 420
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 1593575556
Dewey Decimal Number: 331.702
EAN: 9781593575557
ASIN: 1593575556
Publication Date: July 2008
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Product Description
Readers explore 90 "best low-stress jobs" list ranked by over a dozen common stress factors, plus by pay, growth, opening, personality type, interests, education level, gender, age, part-time work, and self-employment. Readers review descriptions of the 150 best low-stress jobs that appeal to them for a career change or career direction.
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 Misses the mark on travel agent September 23, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Shatkin says "Some aspects of this profession include computing costs of travel and accommodations, booking various tours, and selling travel packages. Although accuracy is paramount to success on the job, least stressful aspects include a comfortable pace and low frequency of conflict situations."
How much serious research, if any, went into this listing is debatable. I've been a travel agent over 30 years, and would say that since about 1995, it would be one of the more stressful jobs one could take on. Shatkin's simplified description suggests being ill-informed, naive, negligent...or all of the above. To include this job in any discussion of low-stress employment is ridiculous.
 Almost the same book as Best Jobs for Introverts! July 4, 2008
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
This book is almost like the author cut & paste his other book "Best Jobs for Introverts" and put the jobs in a different order.
Again, mostly blue-collar jobs like plumber, steelworker, repairman, baker etc. The type of stuff you don't stress over when you go home at night, but you may stress over the low pay.
Some administrative jobs like mail clerk, file clerk. Massage therapist. The top jobs are (like the other book), computer engineering type stuff. I think the only science job was zoologist, which is so rare nowadays.
I certainly didn't learn anything useful.
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