Episode 199: Top Jobs & Career Sectors Linked to Hair Loss & Stress

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Hello everybody and welcome back to the Alopecia Angel podcast. Today we are gonna be talking about the Top 5 industry sectors or jobs that create the most hair loss. This is pretty important because potentially you are in this job or maybe you’re just coming out, or maybe you’re looking to transition out of it because of your workplace or industry that you’re in.

The thing with hair loss is that a lot of people just say: Oh, it’s just stress. It’s just this. It’s just that. When in reality, it’s much more than just one thing. It’s much more than just stress, it’s much more than just what’s happening. The here and the now, if we have hair loss, it’s because all the ingredients that create hair growth, just as the fact that it creates hair loss have been combined in a certain way, almost like how a hurricane forms, how a tsunami forms. This is how I view hair loss, it doesn’t come from nothing. It comes from many factors and your job or workforce workplace, your boss, your coworkers can also influence this as well. So let’s go ahead and talk a little bit about these industries and these sectors.

So the first one is hospitality. This is a big industry, which includes anything from hotels to flights and travel to restaurant workers, and when you start to think about hospitality, anything on cruise ships, right? People on cruise ships, people who work for people’s essentially enjoyment, right? When hospitality workers are working, it’s normally when we are on vacation.

That’s more than likely how the situation is, whether it’s business or personal, family, vacation or other, those hospitality workers are working. They’re working nights, they’re working days, they’re working the night shift. They’re working long hours, especially when there’s short of staff. They’re also working on holidays with, anything from Thanksgiving to Easter, Christmas, New Year’s, there’s always somebody there serving you at a restaurant, at a bar, at the, at the hotel, or anywhere else that you choose to spend your holidays or nights, weekends at these certain places. And so hospitality is a big one, and it is a big stressful industry in many areas. I’ve had the privilege to have many friends who work in the industry as well. Whether you’re an event planner, at a hotel or doing events worldwide, this too can cause a lot of stress and impacts who you are, how you sleep, how you live and everything else.

The next sector of jobs that have the most hair loss is anyone in transportation. Transportation is also very similar to hospitality, but a little different. Because yes, it is planes, trains, and cars. Think of your Uber people, right? Who picked you up at

3:00AM, or your taxi drivers. Think of people who work on the trains. I think of the trains in Europe, that system is so on point, and even in Japan, right? Trains are a mode of transportation for the masses. And this is so key, especially in places like New York City or Boston or San Francisco, if the train is down, this means that millions of people can’t get to a to b, to their home, to their work to pick up their child in a timely manner.

So transportation, that sector sees a lot of hair loss as well, or potentially has more stress than others. And again, that ripples into hair loss. The next sector, lo and behold, as we probably experience the most is healthcare. Healthcare, you think of the night nurses on staff call for doctors and for, operations. Many times I’ve heard this from many doctors that tell me that if they’re not working, they’re not getting paid. So there’s almost an incentive to work more, they’re incentivized to work more. And we saw this during COVID, right? There was a lot of burnout, there was a lot of stress. It was a bigger situation that over flooded not just staffing, but the hospitals and the system, the healthcare system in many countries, not just in one or two, but in many countries and in many areas. And so healthcare always tends to be an area or a sector of high stress and high hair loss. And that could be you, that could be you working in this situation.

The next sector is real estate. In real estate, I would probably presume that it’s because of the highs and lows of the market, whether people are buying or not buying, whether the, economy is stagnant or what’s happening with interest rates or what have you. And so real estate is a roller coaster. You have good years, you have bad years, and then you tend to see where everyone goes in charging full force into real estate, getting their license. And then they pull back, and then they go into whatever they were doing before then. And so this can also create a lot of stress and uncertainty, right? If you have this type of job, potentially.

Public administration, the survey and the report and the study that I was reading about didn’t mention or expand upon public administration, but this could be potentially governmental offices or maybe people in just very high level positions, executives, potentially CEOs of this nature, because of course there’s a lot of things riding on you and a lot of decisions to be made, and the course and the trajectory of the companies and the organization are solely on your shoulders. And so that too can create a lot of stress and surmount a lot of, anxiety of sorts.

The next, but not least, are the caregivers. This actually correlates a lot with healthcare. But when you think of caregivers, it doesn’t have to be a night nurse. It doesn’t have to be a nurse from the nicu. This could be just a regular daughter who’s helping her aging mom or aging parents, go through this transition of life to death. This could also be a caregiver of a mom taking care of her child or children just in general or. A mom who’s playing double duty, maybe working with her children, maybe some who are special needs, and then potentially also maybe another adult, loved one who is sick or ailing or needs extra special attention or tender loving care in terms of their needs at the time.

And so this can also pull people in different areas and create added stress because it’s not just, let’s say, working or even being, let’s say, a stay at home parent, but this is also

the responsibility of helping loved ones, children, aging parents, etcetera, to that next phase of life. And that too creates a lot of stress and also worry and concern. So what to do, my personal thoughts on industries on work that causes stress is to see what other options you have. Maybe you can transition into another sector. Maybe you can take a different type of position within the same industry, which is less stressful. Potentially you can evaluate your current organization and see how they stack up with other organizations or other competitors and see if maybe there’s better benefits or more mindfulness, health and wellness options within these other organizations.

The other thing too is to revamp and restart from zero and many times, having a fresh start is also a wonderful way of doing things. I know a lot of people who have, let’s say, switched careers and industries just by going back to school, potentially getting another degree or even learning a new skillset or having that skillset translate into a new industry or into a new way of working. And so a lot of times having these ideas and really pinpointing where the stressors are coming from helps because this way we can start giving these stressors some solutions. Because if you stay in the same environment, that’s not gonna take you to that next level. That’s not gonna help your current situation. If you are experiencing hair loss from your job directly, and that direct impact is impacting you and your health and your hair ultimately.

And so at the end of the day, it’s you who gets to decide. It’s you who gets to choose what that next step, what your future looks like. You can be stuck in this job or you can start looking for a new one. And if you have any recruiters or any guidance that you would like, in this last episode, previous to this one, it was episode 197 I believe with Teegan Bartos. She is a highly trained, skilled, corporate recruiter and she can help you with your resume and she can help you with that next step into your career. She could probably even give you more ideas and more options into what your next career path could look like. So this is something to always keep in the back of your mind because, many times we’d like to think that we’re stuck with where we live, with how we’re living, with our jobs, with everything. And yet we’re not. We’re so flexible and we can be, and it’s up to us to be flexible.

I’ve moved around to different countries, i’ve moved around and done different things in many different areas of life. And yet then at the end of it, I get to choose how I want to show up in the world, and so do you. And this also impacts your health. It gives you choice, freedom, fulfillment, and it also allows you to reduce and eliminate that extra added stress that potentially you are experiencing with your job or your career.

So, something to think about because different stages of life call for different careers, positions, and even maybe a step away from the workforce just ever so slightly until we’re ready to come back. And again, something to think about. If you need extra resources, I highly recommend Teegan Bartos who was on the podcast with me last week.

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