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Least stressful jobs

Feeling overworked and overwhelmed? Maybe it's time for a career change to one of these 10 fields from Money and PayScale.com's list of America's best jobs.

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8. Software Architect
Software Architect
Best Jobs rank: N.A.
% who say their job is low stress: 51.6%

Their forté is designing software for cool new products and computers, or creating new versions of software for new computer operating systems. That can often make for a creative, relaxed work environment -- at least when tight release deadlines aren't staring them in the face.

NEXT: Occupational Therapist

Last updated October 13 2009: 1:26 PM ET
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