stress

I was just thinking, everybody is always whining about stress. My job is stressful. Too much stress at home. Driving to work is stressful.     Well, I think they're full of horse s**t!

Here's a list I found on the Internet of what somebody thinks are the most stressful jobs:
1. President
2. Firefighter
3. Senior corporate executive.
4. Race car driver
5. Taxi Driver
6. Surgeon
7. astronaut
8. Police officer
9. Pro football player
10. Air Traffic Controller


Let's look at each one:
1. President     I think this is a job you gotta want to have, you don't just put in a general application at the employment office and this is the only job you hear back from. Plus you have to spend about a billion dollars to get elected, I kinda think you know what you're getting into before hand so get over it. Then the job only last for four years but the salary is for lifetime, don't that make it a little better?
2. Firefighter     Yea, this one is stressful but not for the redneck volunteers that just want to chase the fire truck and think the flashing red light in their pick-up will help them pick up chicks.
3. Senior corporate executive   No, not stressful. There's always someone below you to blame things on unless you get in too deep and then it's your own fault.
4. Race car driver     I think car racing is a sport, right? You wreck your car, who gets hurt? You or some other race car driver. I think everybody knows that's part of it. If it's too much for you, take up taxi driving.
5. Taxi driver    It's your job to drive around in traffic. What's the problem?
6. Surgeon    OK, that's stressful. Unless your some plastic surgeon working on some rich woman's lips because she doesn't want to look old.
7. Astronaut     You don't get drafted to be an astronaut, it's like the president, you gotta want the job.
8. Police officer    Like firefighter, this one is stressful.
9. Pro football player     It's a sport, like race car driving and the MINIMUM salary in 2010 is $325,000. Most of the players that make minimum sit on the bench, the ones that play make more. What's stressful about that, getting tackled? I can solve that, don't get tackled, no stress and you'll make more money.
10. Air traffic controller     I don't know about these guys but if it's that bad, maybe they should go stand at the door at Wal-Mart.

I don't think we really know what stress is today.
Imagine this:
It's 10,000 BC, winter time, about 20 degrees out, you're a cave dude and haven't eaten in three days. You have to go out, hope you can find something to eat AND hope that a saber toothed cat don't find you for his supper first. Now this dude can say he's stressed out....