Occupational Stress Is Less Challenging Than Family

I personally believe that occupational stress is less challenging than family stress. Your occupation is something that you can somewhat control. In other words, it may be hard, but if you are stressed in the job you have you can always leave it. Also occupational stress can be handled very direct and professionally if it deals with other people. You cannot say the same for family stress. Many of us have very close ties to our families and this also includes a very strong emotional connect. Therefore, being stressed out by your family can be taken very personal. We invest a lot of emotions and care into dealing with our families and this makes it harder to deal with anything involving them. 

Also occupational stress can be predicted to a certain

extent. When working you have an idea of how you would like your professional life to be. Also you learn everything that your job entails. This can give you the opportunity to prepare yourself for any obstacles that could potentially cause stress in your life. With family, it is not that simple. Anything could really happen. As previously stated you are dealing with other people at a very intimate level. Also you cannot necessarily plan for how they will affect the level of stress in your life. You cannot really predict what they do and how it affects you. In my opinion this is the biggest difference about the two types of stress.
Therefore, in regard to managing these forms of stress family stress is harder to manage because it is more challenging than occupational stress. I beliefs are based off my experience as someone who works and the stress it causes me in comparison to the stress I feel from my family. I believe being a working college student away from home may play a role and my opinion.