competition: Most Stressful Place To Work

1 they live ten years less

2 one of the highest rates of suicide

3 highest for alchoholism

4 later leads to hypertension

5 you will know someone who is a friend that will die in an aviation related accident

6 You will hear a strangers last words before he dies

7 you need to be proficient in the knowledge the FAA requires you to know. Just look up 7110.65 in a search

8 you need to learn to speak another way, or someone will die

9 you need to know almost every aircraft make model version and performance characteristic or someone will die

10 if you screw up and people are killed. You have to carry that with you for the rest of your life. one controller was murdered in front of his family by a father who lost his.



Air traffic control is statistically one of the most stressfull jobs today. Most of you probably couldn't get a feeling for this kind of job unless your in it. This is what I am studying to be.