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Being a CEO is one of the highest impact careers in terms of lowering life expectancy. Most high paid careers are extremely stressful and come with more serious

• medvezhenok 5y ago
  > Being a CEO is one of the highest impact careers in terms of lowering life expectancy. Most high paid careers are extremely stressful and come with more serious health impact than the average worker. Perhaps, though that effect must be offset by other things (and/or access to healthcare), since the life expectancy based on income graph is monotonically increasing for both genders. http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/health/ http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/health/ My hunch is that the well off might have stress on the job (though again, this is a subset of well-paid positions, and I think the subset is actually smaller than you think), but everyone else has a lot more stress outside of the job which is much more important. The stress associated with poverty cannot be understated - it lowers IQ by ~15 points. (Poverty and IQ: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/making-sense/analysis-how-poverty-can-drive-down-intelligence https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/making-sense/analysis-h...)
• bryanlarsen 5y ago
  Middle managers are more stressed than CEO's. Responsibilities cause stress, but power to address those responsibilities mitigates it somewhat. CEO's have much more of that power than middle managers do. https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/employee-relations/pages/middle-managers-are-miserable-.aspx https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/employee-re...