While some jobs are less stressful than others, it seems to me that the larger issue is learning how to deal with the stress that comes with any job. (Your own petsitting experience more or less proves my point.)

Since I am writing a book on spiritual practice (like meditation) and dealing with the struggles we go through in our practices (like thinking that everyone else is having an easier time of it than we are), this is a subject near and dear to my heart. Whatever the job, learning how to quickly center and ground, practicing meditation, using biofeedback, and otherwise developing strategies to deal with the stress just might trump jumping ship and starting a new career.

Of course . . . I left the high stress corporate world and started my own businesses (which are, on even the most stressful day, less stressful than those corporate jobs)so I must admit that there is something to be said for finding less stressful work, too.

Melanie