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The job of president is stressful and unrelenting, and forces fast decisions even when maybe you need to sleep on it, former secretary of state and likely presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday.

Heres what I worry about, Clinton told a Boston audience. The stress on anybody in a leadership position, multiplied many times over to be president. The incoming never ends.

Clinton has said she is thinking about running for president for a second time and is likely to make a decision after Jan. 1. Friends say she is genuinely mulling whether she wants to take on both the arduous job of running, and the even harder job of governing.

Technology connects you around the world instantaneously, so youre constantly being asked for opinions, to make decisions that maybe you need more time to think about, Clinton said during a question-and-answer session at the Massachusetts Conference for Women.

Maybe you need to sleep on it. Maybe you need to bring in some people to talk to about it. But the pace of demands is so intense that you feel like youve got to respond.

She was speaking as an up-close observer of presidents and also as a former cabinet member called upon to make weighty decisions. But she was also giving voice to her own misgivings, however much they may be outweighed by her drive to run.

The job is unforgiving in many ways, so therefore I think you need people around you who will kid you, make fun of you, Clinton said. I have no shortage of such people in my life.

The reflective remarks camewhen amoderator said she had one last, important question to ask, and one that was on everyones minds: As a former first lady, what qualities did Clinton think made for a good first gentleman?

Clinton chuckled and went along with the joke, then turned serious. She noted that she had spent an hour talking with President Obama in the Oval Office on Wednesday, and that she had known several presidents.

It is such a hard job. I dont care whether youre a Republican or a Democrat, where youre from, what your political aspirations are. It is such a challenging job.

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Hillary Clinton: Its really, really hard to be president