So, what can you do about stress on the job? chronic stress is inevitable, right? Not necessarily. There are stress reduction techniques that may help.

First, determine whether chronic stress is affecting your health. Look for the telltale warning signs. These include headaches, teeth-grinding (sometimes at night), tension in the back, shoulders, or neck, anxiety, insomnia, inability to fight off minor illnesses, irritability, and a constant sense of impending doom. If you’re not experiencing these symptoms, you may not need to do much more than simply monitor your stress level and be ready to act if stress does start to negatively influence your life.

But if you’re suffering from stress related symptoms, probe a little further. Ask yourself which parts of your job cause you the most stress. Interacting with clients? Paperwork? Presentations in front of the board of directors? Dealing with a particularly annoying co-worker? While you’re identifying the stressors, don’t forget to identify the things you do like about your job. Perhaps you enjoy the thrill of landing a new account or the satisfaction of coming out exactly on budget month after month.

Although most jobs will not allow you to completely eliminate the stressful activities in favor of the enjoyable ones, perhaps you can reduce the amount of time you spend on stressful assignments. Cut a deal with a co-worker, for instance, that you’ll take on the face time with his clients, which he hates, if he gives you a hand writing your daily reports, which you hate.

For the stressful parts of your job that you can’t avoid, techniques like progressive relaxation (relaxing one set of muscles after another, starting at the toes and working up to the temples), visualizations (imagining yourself in a relaxing, peaceful place), and affirmations (reminding yourself that you are more than capable of completing the job successfully) may help. You can learn these techniques on your own, or a counselor who specializes in stress management can teach them to you in a few sessions.

If you find there is far more stress than joy in your job, or if you have trouble coming up with any positive tasks at all, it may be time to consider changing jobs, or even changing careers.

You will never find a job that is completely stress free—and if you did, you would probably be bored—but if your current job is causing you chronic, grinding stress that is affecting your health and your non-work hours, it’s time to either learn stress management techniques or make some big changes in your life.

Like it or not, we spend the majority of our waking hours at work. Those hours may sometimes be stressful, but they shouldn’t be miserable.

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