I was in a high-risk profession.
Historically, being a jester was a high-risk profession.
It provides for increasing those thresholds by $1,350 for individuals and $3,000 for families in cases where workers are in "a high-risk profession or employed to install electrical or telecommunications lines".
But if we find eighty-fifth-percentile teachers who can teach a year and a half's material in one year, we're going to have to pay them a lot both because we want them to stay and because the only way to get people to try out for what will suddenly be a high-risk profession is to offer those who survive the winnowing a healthy reward.
But if we find eighty-fifth-percentile teachers who can teach a year and a half's material in one year, we're going to have to pay them a lot — both because we want them to stay and because the only way to get people to try out for what will suddenly be a high-risk profession is to offer those who survive the winnowing a healthy reward.
22 These findings seriously question the generally held belief that policing is a high-risk profession with respect to mental health: is it perhaps a (partial) myth?
Policing is generally considered a high-risk profession for the development of mental health problems, but this assumption lacks empirical evidence.
Of those 125 who provided a reason, 34% said poor pay, 17% said it was a high-risk profession, and 9% expressed concerns about personal insecurity or patient violence.
Despite these limitations, the present study demonstrates that, although policing is generally viewed as a high-risk profession, mental health disturbances are not more prevalent in police officers as compared with various other occupational cohorts in our study.
Of those 125 who provided a reason, 42 (34%) said poor pay, 22 (18%) said high pressure from work, and 21 (17%) said it was a high-risk profession.
