My daughter is a paramedic. Her husband is a state trooper.
He will go to work if the brimstone is falling from the heavens.
She....will call in sick. Only after grabbing enough IV needles and bags for her family.
She is sick of sick people already.....
I did a ‘ride along’ with the local police when I worked doing some software for them.
The 8-hour day was over in a flash- I can see why some of them get a rush from it.
When we went for lunch he had a sugary cinnamon bun and added maple syrup to it- I would have gotten diabetes from eating just one- he had 2.
It is a very different existence.