By Performing Volunteer Work, Are You A Hero?

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K firefighters aren’t even in the top 10. Delivery driving is more dangerous.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in By Performing Volunteer Work, Are You A Hero?:

@George-K firefighters aren’t even in the top 10. Delivery driving is more dangerous.

I am in no way disputing that. I'd just love to see where you got that information.

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in By Performing Volunteer Work, Are You A Hero?:

@Doctor-Phibes said in By Performing Volunteer Work, Are You A Hero?:

@George-K firefighters aren’t even in the top 10. Delivery driving is more dangerous.

I am in no way disputing that. I'd just love to see where you got that information.

Google, I'm afraid...but I'm pretty sure it's true.

https://www.invictuslawpc.com/most-dangerous-jobs-osha/

According to this other list, firefighting supervisors are number 9, but it sounds as though it's mostly dangerous due to vehicle accidents:

https://www.ishn.com/articles/112748-top-25-most-dangerous-jobs-in-the-united-states

[LuFins Dad]

I have never understood the purpose of having these guys living at the station for 3-4 days and being on duty 24 hours a day, then 3-4 days off… Why not just have 3 8 hour shifts?

[Horace]

@LuFins-Dad said in By Performing Volunteer Work, Are You A Hero?:

I have never understood the purpose of having these guys living at the station for 3-4 days and being on duty 24 hours a day, then 3-4 days off… Why not just have 3 8 hour shifts?

I am sure the unions spin lofty tales about the purpose of this most awesome fringe benefit of that job. It allows full time fire fighters to take months at a time off, and/or maintain second jobs.

[MainerMikeBrown]

I've done a lot of volunteer work over the years.

However, I have never considered myself a hero because the volunteer jobs that I've done aren't anything that risks my safety.

I've never been a volunteer firefighter or anything like that.

[Horace]

In my company’s internal messaging, we employees are called heroes. We are also asked to find other heroes, and we get referral bonuses if we’re able to find any.

[George K]

@MainerMikeBrown said in By Performing Volunteer Work, Are You A Hero?:

I've done a lot of volunteer work over the years.

However, I have never considered myself a hero because the volunteer jobs that I've done aren't anything that risks my safety.

I've never been a volunteer firefighter or anything like that.

In your opinion, does encountering personal danger need to be a qualification for being a "hero?"

[Doctor Phibes]

I worked in some pretty dangerous places back in the UK. Most of the people there scored pretty low on the hero spectrum and pretty high on the moron spectrum. Present company excluded, of course. There was a totally inappropriate tendency towards playing practical jokes, particularly on smarty pants knobheads straight out of college.

[Copper]

Playing golf in retirement is probably top 10

Count the number of old men who died after playing years of golf

It is not a small number