Do you work in a high-stress environment but feel like the pay doesn't match? I’d be curious to hear what parts of your job create that stress for you and how you handle it. In my case, I make $55k in customer support, and the non-stop flow of questions can be pretty exhausting, especially when I need to solve problems on the fly.

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I used to work a customer facing support role, and it was putting me in fight or flight every shift! For me, it was not enough money to make me consider it long term. I know everyone is different and a lot of people I know that did stay ended up doing well for themselves overall. More stress only sometimes equates to more pay anymore.

In fairness, that's decent money for a customer support job. And that's just the nature of the work, I assume people call and you help them with whatever the issue is. I imagine most people don't stay in those roles very long, unless for whatever reason they like dealing with the people. In your case you should look for a different position. But, every job has some stress, whether it's a constant flood of phone calls or just tasks handed to you.

I work in public health, and there’s always so much work to do with so few resources. The stress comes from balancing urgent requests and handling multiple projects at once. The pay doesn’t always feel like it reflects the workload.

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