After working at the adrenochrome factory I got a good look at how things are going in healthcare in the US. I wouldn't be shocked if some crisis befell everyone. For work I wouldn't feel comfortable having someone without a relevant degree doing, we were making less than some fast food workers. Not to denigrate them, but I would trust a respectful high schooler to be able to help with the responsibility of feeding people. That shit had corporate shifting everything around, we had clean rooms that would pop for fungus, and we were constantly on edge of running out of shit like ethanol and containers. We had turnover >50%. I know someone who had to file a complaint with the labor board to get their overtime paid out. Meanwhile someone was making money hand over fist about it. I was so upset with how society handled this service that any rational actor would believe a civilized society required and how they just mismanaged it for profit. The wonton disregard for the work that had to be done weighed my spirit down. I started going to lunch instead of meetings - I had trouble saying no to two attractive people instead of falling asleep during the meetings as my reputation had declared.

During the quarantine in the US, they had nurses wearing trash bags as PPE. Burnout was spreading as much as the virus. I'm sure with insurance money flying everywhere like a shell game for shell corporations all sorts of bullshit comes before making people better. If a hospital has that managerial browbeating flavor where in addition to helping people for 12 hours, you had to learn a new payroll system that some slick tongue in a suit sold them, I can't imagine helping people is primary for the leadership. It all falls on people going the extra mile for people in spite of the incentives.

It makes my stomach wretch because I did follow the incentives. I work for the CIA monitoring leftist forum activity now. It's decidedly less important than synthesizing adrenochrome. I'm much more like the payroll salesman. But now I have monetary hope for the future. When there's work to be done I do it and I don't pretend to be busy when there's not. I take on a reasonable load of responsibility and I'm appreciated and compensated for it (most of the time, some people are assholes for whom contracts and laws don't apply). I would go back and do a lot of jobs if the CIA went under, but I would be so distraught if I were in healthcare again.