In Indian Universities, Professors are more stressful if they work in all four activities:

1. Teaching

2. Research

3. Consultancy

4. University Governance

Otherwise they are not stressful.

No. It is one of the easiest jobs that exist. However, it is not particularly honurable, for two reasons. There are more and more professors in this world, and the level of their knowledge is constantly falling. Second, adminstration rules; professors are powerless and irrelevant.

Dear Mario,

thank you for your answer. I think the two reasons you give enough to make University professor a stressful job.

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In Indian Universities, Professors are more stressful if they work in all four activities:

1. Teaching

2. Research

3. Consultancy

4. University Governance

Otherwise they are not stressful.

I do not think that, is a fun job .. There is a lot of teaching and scientific research and the scientific team that provides what serves the community ... It is a job that feels happy because you have gained the effort that you made , both students who learned from you a lot or the research side ..this my personal think ..

Haitham: "I think the two reasons you give enough to make University professor a stressful job."

You may be right; but I consider my administrative environment irritating rather than stressful. I have no problems with students.

Professors are more stressful when they involve themselves in politics in the University. Academics at Professorial level is a fun and fulfillment.

Nothing comes easy. Being a university professor is a great fulfillment and accomplishing one's assigned duties may be time consuming. However, if a professor bites more than s/he can chew because of money then the stress sets in.

Dear Haitham Hmoud Alshibly,

Each work is tense. Professor's job a respected profession requires a lot of work.

Regards, Shafagat

It depends on your department and the type of leadership in it that would enable your experience to be enjoyable or stressful, but either way, you have to be able to make the best of it.

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Debra

My take is that it depends on the institutions administrations.

Current trends point to conflicting goals in administration of academic institutions. My experience with some institutions have been that they want to lower the requirements for entry but at the same time they want to focus on retention. These conflicting goals then puts the professor in a bind. The professor wants to give quality education but the students are not up to it. Then, What does the professor do?

Lower the level required for the course?

or

increase the dropout rate?

Institutions that have this problem and expect publications from professors are more likely to be stressful environments

yes, I thank

being a University Professor is a stressful job?

Your 3rd year review can be a very stressful time. You think you're doing well, and your mentors may be saying positive things, but until you have a committee of senior professors focusing on your career and how it can be made better during your 3rd year, you will not really get the critical feedback

It really depends on the university. Some provide enriching environment to help faculty grow both personally and professionally while others provide a job. It is really up to each faculty to determine their own level of stress. Being a professor can be truly inspiring and joyful.

If any problem is causing a condition of a stress in the person...

But I think that being a University Professor brings a lot of enjoyment!

I am following the answers,Thank you All

I don't know for other countries, but in Greece it is a highly non stressed work.

And many professors have it as a second job (they are called 'part-time').

It is a respectable profession. It is stressful for those who work honestly to give results and outcome, not for those who do not bother the true essence of teaching. Yet the stress is positive if the output is positive otherwise negative and affecting the health of professor.

Thank you all for your informative and constructive inputs, it seems the subject matter is controversial, However, in my case, since, in addition to the academic duties , I have been involved in administrative duties for more than ten years by now, I found it stressful, especially as Dr. Ghazala said" it is stressful for those who work honestly to give results". All the best.

It depends on the administration and work culture being followed at the University.

Nonetheless, Teaching is a noble profession and I find it as really fulfilling and satisfying.

No it is not. It is the best profession to me.

In my opinion, it is a profession which gives satisfaction to those who love teaching in the first place provided you are in a proper environment; students and admin wise. Thanks. @Aldmour

A career as a college professor isn’t for everyone. It requires a true passion for learning and an expert level knowledge base to even be considered for a college professor job

I think this related with the place of job and depends on the university.

best regard

Teaching is a stressful job but with experience coping will be built.

University professors live in a challenging and highly questioning work environment with respect to their competences, therefore, if it is stressful.

In an analysis, raised from a Vigostkian conception, there is a coincidence on the importance of cultural preparation in the self-care of health, in this analysis there is also a judgment in terms of necessity with respect to constant enrichment to counteract the stressful influences that come from of contact with the school environment. This regardless of the level of education in question.

It is from here that we can see the contribution of methodological work, not as a final solution to the cultural problem that unleashes the stress of university professors.

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Chapter FUNDAMENTALS OF THE PREPARATION FOR THE SELF-CARE OF TEACHERS 'HEALTH