Who’d have thought librarians were so stressed.

Others enjoyed fulfilling careers that offered new challenges, interaction with a variety of people and room for advancement.

“Although police officers and firefighters find themselves in stressful situations, they are at least able to get out and about, and there is much more variety in their work.”

Librarians, on the other hand feel stifled by constantly stamping and stacking books in silence day after day.

“It seems they are sick of being stuck between the same shelves of books all day. They also found their work repetitive and unchanging, and overall had very little job satisfaction,” said Saddiq

As a result, they were most likely to cut work and take their frustrations out on their families at home.

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