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re: What is today’s most difficult job?
Posted on 4/17/24 at 2:31 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Posted on 4/17/24 at 2:31 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Working with a dude who worked at an iron foundry for about a year. Says he worked the overnight shift, and it was miserable. He came out of the Marines, so I’m inclined to believe him.
Mortality-wise, I think it’s still firemen in the lead, although the politics of police work have got to suck—not to mention the hazards of dealing with the general public.
Mortality-wise, I think it’s still firemen in the lead, although the politics of police work have got to suck—not to mention the hazards of dealing with the general public.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 3:40 pm to FCP
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Mortality-wise, I think it’s still firemen
I see a lot of replies thinking a dangerous job is a difficult job. Being dangerous isn't what always makes it difficult. I'm an electrician and a FF/EMT. Both dangerous.
On average, there's a LODD every 3.5 days in the fire service, around 100/year not including 2001. Electrocution is one of the top 5 causes of on-the-job fatalities per OSHA.
Changing out a transformer by hand in tight quarters sucks. Pulling in a few hundred feet of copper conductors sucks.
The most difficult part of being a FF/EMT is when you get back to the station after not being able to anything despite your efforts. When everyone just sits down at the dining room table in silence until someone breaks it. Those are the difficult times you leave at the station and do your best to not take home with you.
My wife(no pics) is a former cop. She gets that part of it. She's a HS teacher now and, to some of you that have mentioned LEO's, says she couldn't be paid enough to go back to being a cop.
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