I recently left my job about a month ago. I found a job in the same market with the same pay but closer to my house. My old job was hell, it was the most stressful thing I have ever gone through. Now don't get my wrong, I loved my job because it pays well and I actually like what I am doing (data science). But the company I worked for was going through massive fines by the government and the OCC (I worked for a bank) due to a lot of failed regulations. I was stressed every day because everything I was asked to do was to fix problems that were costing millions of dollars. Needless to say that these requests had to be done as fast as possible.
Fast forward to my new job. I'm still in banking and I'm still stressed. The only thing that is different is that I'm stressed because my job is not stressful. I have no pressure to get things done as soon as possible. I have no pressure from my boss that I am costing the company millions of dollars because I haven't fixed the issue yet. I sit in my office and feel like I am doing things wrong because I don't feel pressure.
Having a really bad job has caused me to be stressed at an amazing job. I don't understand how this can happen but now I am stressed that I am not stressed…