Gayle, I feel the same way. I would much rather be less stressed. I don't handle stress very well at all.
When I was working in the lab at this company, the job was quite easy but I never knew if I would get a lunch break that day, or what time I would get home at night, or if somebody would call me to be out on site before I even got out of bed in the morning. On top of that, there were quite a few men on the construction sites who didn't like having a woman telling them their materials weren't passing, and then there were others who really liked having a woman on site. There's no worse feeling than getting and education and working really hard at your job and coming on site for an older man to call you "baby" instead of using your name
I was living with my grandma for that 8 months, and she fed me more than I've ever eaten, yet I still managed to drop about 30 lbs, handfuls of hair fell out in the shower, and my friends and coworkers started telling me how awful I looked.
Sometimes I feel that I'm not working to my potential because I'm just using a small amount of the knowledge I got from college. On the other hand, I've taken that knowledge and really expanded it with the extra courses I've taken since being out of school. Maybe it's better to be REALLY GOOD at one thing, than just kind of good at everything else.