First there is a lot of talk about this job being really stressful, and I'm not going to lie because there can be stressful times.  But it all comes down to how you organise yourself and how much weight you put on every task that you are doing.  We have a full time job of course, but we do have a life after that, we are all human beings and as long as you remain professional you keep your time organised it's not impossible to work as a project manager and again there will be more stressful times, but there will also be quieter times and if at any point you are dealing with a really high level of stress it's up to your manager and your company to manage that.  At least at RWS I've been able to talk openly about this with my manager so it hasn't been unmanageable and you can take it!

I would just quickly add something to that, as a manager of people and having worked as a project manager as well, it's very much the managers responsibility to keep the stress to a minimum. Everybody's job has an element of stress... a lot of my time, as you saw from all the meetings in the presentation, is spent resourcing, planning capacity, which teams are busy, which teams are not busy, does anybody need any help. I very much hope I foster an environment where everyone can go to their line manager and say I'm stressed because I'm too busy, or I'm stressed because a customer is being a bit weird in some way and the manager shouldhelp you to deal with that and take any stress that you are feeling away.