Take a walk in our shoes: “I signed up for this job, and I continue to do it. I still don’t want to quit. But that does not mean that the daily burden of risk does not take its toll. That toll is fatigue and chronic anxiety for many. That toll becomes bitterness when coupled with a system that keeps lowering what they pay us while raising our exposure to risk.”
The daily burden of risk
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