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Steve Grobman and Allison Cerra, The Second Economy, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2229-4_6

6. Playing Second Fiddle

Steve Grobman1  and Allison Cerra2

(1)Santa Clara, California, USA

(2)Plano, Texas, USA

I’m attracted to computers, and some people can’t understand that. But some people are attracted to horses and I can’t understand that.

—Dan Nydick, Electrical Engineering major at Carnegie-Mellon, 1983 1

In 2016, CareerCast, an online job search site, evaluated 200 jobs on 11 stress factors and published a report ranking the most and least stressful careers of the year. Those in high-strung positions faced punishing deadlines, physical demands, hazardous conditions, and even life-threatening risks to themselves and others. ...

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