[zapperdapper]

I suspect that stress is "baked into the corporate cake" - in other words, most corporations are quite toxic to mental and physical health by their very nature. A lot of the stress is caused by things like changing requirements, unrealistic deadlines and poor management - you know, the usual stuff. Something like sys admin in a University might be less stressful, but it's been a long time since I worked in academia and I left because things were changing drastically (and not for the better). If you want really low stress you might be better off outside of the software industry altogether...

[newdaynewuser]

Deadline driven development is leading cause of 90% of my professional stress. I would understand if deadline was due to some external factors like customer demands or security vulnerability. But I hate when I ask why such a tight deadline and the answer is well higher ups fault.