Martian

It depends on what you're going into and what sort of position you expect to get into. I've worked in various environments from fast food joints to construction yards to the tech support call centre I'm in now. In the warehouse I had firm to-the-minute deadlines; that truck departs at 09:37, that one at 10:03, both need to be loaded up with all necessary stock before they go. The construction yard was the same, although the pressure was on the boss he'd make sure we knew when the job had to be done.

In my current position I don't have deadlines because I don't get involved in any long-term projects. However, I'm also in the process of starting a new business with some friends and we have very strict deadlines as to when products need to be delivered, when advertising material needs to be at the printer and so on and so forth. Same goes for our R&D, although I'm not directly involved there they have very firm deadlines as to when projects need to be completed. The company's in it's infancy and is only just balancing out expenitures and profit now, but as our client base and therefore business increases, we expect the deadlines and pressure to increase accordingly.

So basically, by my experience the higher up you are the greater the pressure gets.

EDIT - It's worth noting that I never went to college, so my work experience is likely to be very different from a college graduate.