What Is Work Stress and What Can We Do About It?

Creative and knowledge workers are supposed to love what they do. Tara McMullin explains why these jobs are still so intense—and difficult.

The stress of work can be especially tricky to describe for creative and knowledge workers who love what they do. That doesn't make it less real.

“Oh, you’re a writer? So you sit at a computer all day? What exactly do you do?” Goodness, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard this question, and how I’ve also wanted to know just what other creatives d…