• "Well written, well researched, and the thesis put forth is well argued.... Woods has opened up an area of historical analysis that should invite further study."
    -Journal of American History

  • "During these times that challenge our freedoms there is no one more qualified to make U.S. history relevant to the fight against big government than Thomas Woods."
    -Barry Goldwater Jr.
    Former Member of Congress

  • "I strongly recommend Woods's work."
    -The Honorable Ron Paul,
    U.S. House of Representatives

  • "Written with great clarity and fluency, making the complex philosophical and theological concepts approachable."
    -Journal of American Studies

  • "A must-read."
    -Barron's

  • "An excellent reading source for anyone interested in financial markets, and much more so for anyone interested in learning about capitalism without all the misinterpretations being thrown about in the financial media."
    -Asia Times

  • "Provocative, well-written, and deserves to be read."
    -Catholic Historical Review

  • "An engaging and important contribution to scholarship on the history of American Catholicism."
    -Journal of the Historical Society

  • "Woods and [co-author Kevin] Gutzman appeal to both left and right in this constitutionalist jeremiad…. The authors' exegeses of the Constitution and court decisions, heavy on original intent arguments, are lucid and telling."
    -Publishers Weekly

  • "A marvelous read. Every chapter taught me something new and unexpected."
    -Tom Bethell, senior editor,
    The American Spectator

  • "The hottest book today is Meltdown, by my friend Tom Woods."
    -Judge Andrew Napolitano, senior judicial analyst,
    FOX News Channel

  • "Should be required reading."
    -Economic Affairs (London)

  • "Woods, one of the best classical liberal [libertarian] scholars of his generation, has once more placed us in his debt with this lucid and tightly argued book."
    -David Gordon, The Mises Review

  • "Tom Woods is one of my dearest allies in the struggle against wrong-headed and dangerous economic policy."
    -Peter Schiff

The 10 Most (and Least) Stressful Careers of 2013

According to CareerCast.com, the most stressful are:

10. Police officer
9. Taxi driver
8. Newspaper reporter
7. Photojournalist
6. Senior corporate executive
5. Public relations manager
4. Commercial airline pilot
3. Firefighter
2. Military general
1. Enlisted military personnel

The least stressful are:

10. Drill press operator
9. Librarian
8. Hairstylist
7. Dietitian
6. Audiologist
5. Medical laboratory technician
4. Jeweler
3. Medical records technician
2. Seamstress/tailor
1. University professor

Unlearn the Propaganda!

  • Anonymous

    Hmm, I think I’d like to be a librarian, seems like a nice job. Although people might get upset when they find a library full of nothing but classical liberalism books.
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    More Thoughts…

  • http://twitter.com/DWMFtweets DWMF

    Military enlisted is HIGHLY variable. I’m currently military enlisted (getting out in July). I make over $40k a year. I’ve never had to leave the United States. I’ve never had to carry a gun. I work less than 40 hours a week. I share a large office with a window with one other person. And I’m not like a nuclear technician or anything, I’m an admin guy, a job practically anyone could quality for.

    I won’t claim my experience is typical. But there are a LOT of real cushy gigs out there for enlisted people if you know how to find them.

  • Scott Lazarowitz

    Our stupid imbecile government bureaucrats are the ones who MAKE the cops and military careers stressful with starting wars that shouldn’t have been started, and making just about everything illegal that shouldn’t be illegal.

    “Newspaper reporter”? Stressful? Hah! What a joke! (Perhaps if you work for a newspaper that opposes the Regime in control, maybe.)

  • tourniquet

    Oh man, I was enlisted for 4 and a 1/2 years and did two deployments in Iraq. I enjoyed my deployments to Iraq and I was a medic in an infantry platoon. The most stressful part of my whole enlistment was being in New York with a dumbass sargent first class who was visited by the good idea fairy on a dialy basis. THe main reason I never reenlisted was because I was not going to take orders from the dumbest people on Earth, it wasn’t the war for me.

  • Bryan

    Keynesian economist must be a sub-category of 1. on list of least stressful. It’s almost unfathomable that one can suffer no job risk for being wrong, day after day, year after year.

  • http://twitter.com/vpostman Kevin Daley

    From what I hear, “PhD student” is almost surely not in the same category as #1.

  • Anonymous

    I should be stressed, according to this. I don’t feel stressed. I feel happy.

  • Jimi

    I’m a career Firefighter/Paramedic and it’s variable as well. Some days are pretty laid back, and I wonder to myself how I get paid doing what I do. But on other days I’ll be up for 24 hours straight running call after call after call thinking to myself that I don’t get paid enough doing what I do. It’s unbelievable at times. It also matters where I may be stationed. If I’m stationed in a rural area we’ll run only 1 or 2 calls per shift. But if I’m working downtown we can run anywhere between 15 to 20 calls on a regular basis.

    It’s a very rewarding job. I love helping people when they really need us. But on the other hand it’s frustrating how many people abuse the EMS system. It’s a byproduct of our entitlement society. It’s sad.

    All in all I love it.

  • Anonymous

    I know a GREAT library in Auburn!! They wouldn’t complain.

  • ABT

    i can attest from experience….
    PhD student is very stressful (wouldn’t call it a career though).

    and non-tenured university faculty is very stress. tenured faculty not so much…

  • Pastor Ko-Rect

    After studying this list, it has become clear to me why Tom chose his link of work.

  • http://www.facebook.com/joy.holowicki Joy Holowicki

    Medical lab tech jobs are actually very stressful… I’m one, so I should know. University professor also seems stressful.

  • BrunoT

    Firefighter? What a joke. The ones I’ve known were so “unstressed” they all had side jobs on their days off and slept/watched TV a majority of the time when on duty. They finally had to institute restrictions on how much TV they watched, as they couldn’t even be bothered to wash the trucks or do maintenance properly. I worked for one part-time and he’d hear a call on his day off and race there in his huge truck(endangering many), so he could direct traffic at a fender bender. This was his THIRD JOB, btw, as he was also a volunteer in another dept who worked paid shifts on his nights off. Easy money, he said.