With every job there comes responsibility, and with responsibility comes stress. Especially now, when young bizgirl’s find themselves lucky to have jobs, the pressure of staying on top of their game can sometimes cause them to crack.

Lauren Rozea, an Assistant Director of a nation-wide tutoring chain center said she compartmentalizes her stress away which is unhealthy for her.

“I bottle it up and try to ignore it,” Rozea says. “I know it’s not healthy but I can’t find anything that relieves it. I realized today for the first time the repercussions of this and completely became overwhelmed—I forgot to eat this morning, went to work, ran around like a chicken without a head for four hours, broke out in hives, and after everything quieted down, I sat down hyperventilating as all the stress I bottled up since Wednesday hit me.”

But the young career girl says she puts the pressure on herself.

“I put more pressure on myself than my bosses place on me,” Rozea says. “My bosses have “expectations” which I am to reach each day/week/month. These “expectations” are what should be done to be the most efficient in my position; however, some are not easily attainable. I see each expectation as a personal goal and do my best to reach it or even surpass it.”

Amanda Dickson, Marketing Communications Manager at a marketing agency in Pennsylvania, says the stress she faces is also self-induced.

“My bosses would never give me something they didn’t think I could handle,” Dickson says. “They know I can do it, whatever it may be, and I put the pressure on myself.”

“I tend to get overwhelmed and when that starts happening, I have to take a step back. I make a list of what needs to be done, and prioritize it.”

As a daycare teacher, Danielle Schaetzle faces stress on a minute-by-minute basis.

“Just being a teacher in a classroom with 19 three-year-olds is stressful in itself,” Schaeztle says. “But it’s more than just being a teacher, too—I spend the entire day with the children, sometimes you feel like a babysitter, mother, father, and it gets strenuous.”

No bizgal wants to be a part of a tension-causing situation at work, but sometimes it is inevitable.

“My responsibilities include proper staffing of part-time staff members,” Rozea says, “and just this week, I messed something up.”

Rozea says her mistake came when the center was understaffed and had students scheduled for times when no teachers were available. For Rozea this was a “big mess up.”

In order to repair her misstep, Rozea has scheduled multiple interviews per day for part-time staffers—making it her number one priority to hire and train teachers to handle the influx of students coming to the center.

Now the “head teacher” in the classroom, Schaetzle had an incident when she was a part-time helper she was sure would lead her to getting the ax.

“There were a lot of problems involving the little kids biting, hitting, and scratching each other,” Schaetzle says. “And, the parents were getting frustrated that this was going on and rightfully so.”

One day when the head teacher was gone, Schaetzle was thrust into the position and there was another altercation under her supervision.

Schaetzle was overwhelmed; she was alone, had to calm down the kids, file an accident report, and let the parents know—and one parent in particular had been very vocal about pulling her child from the school if something had happened again.

“And, of course, this was the parent of the child who got bitten on that day,” Schaetzle said.

Despite this stress-causing sitch Schaetzle did not face serious repercussions as she feared she would—and even though she was over her head, she handled the situation in the best way possible and after a few more months she was promoted to head teacher.

Now as the head teacher, Schaetzle not only faces hardships with the kids—but with her assistant teacher.

“It’s hard when you feel like you have to do everything yourself,” she says. “My assistant would rather try to be my friend, then carry out her assigned duties—and that adds stress to my day. I don’t want to be mean to her, but she needs to do what she is supposed to. So trying to tackle that situation day after day wears me down also.”

The girls face various stresses at work, but each have a way to conquer it.

For Dickson making lists and asking for help is a way to deal.

“It’s really helpful to organize everything and listing it out often makes it more manageable,” Dickson says. “Also, I try to always figure things out on my own but not be afraid to ask for help: that is a good thing to remember if you are getting stressed.”

She also thinks it’s important to deal with stress head on or it will only get worse over time.

Schaetzle says engaging in a relaxing activity alone or with friends helps her balance the stress at work. Things like seeing the latest chick-flick or taking a bath are on her list of “must-dos.”

“I get worked up over tensions I cause myself and even though there are some days when I feel like combusting—everything is going to be just fine,” Rozea says. “When I get home from work, I find that cooking dinner puts me in a better mood...even cleaning the dishes!”

All three agree that stress is manageable—each is well on her way to becoming a successful bizwoman and not letting that six-letter word get in her way.