If someone asked you to step into a cage with a Bengal tiger, you’d say no. No hesitation. No debate. Just a flat-out refusal.
If someone told you to square up to a grizzly bear, you’d be gone. No shame, no second thoughts.
If someone suggested you lower yourself into a plague pit, ankle-deep in the bones and bile of past pandemics, you’d probably (and rightly) tell them to piss off.
And yet…
Every morning, you lace up your boots, put on your high-vis, and walk headfirst into dangers most people couldn’t even name, let alone face.
You climb scaffolds where one wrong step comes with no second chance.
You work near equipment that could crush a man flat without even slowing down.
You strip asbestos that can lodge in your lungs and shorten your life.
You breathe in dust, diesel, and fumes; not because you want to, but because the job needs doing, and someone’s got to do it.
And still, you show up.
Even when the world shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the streets were silent and shops were dark, you kept turning up. You were labelled “essential.” A key worker. While everyone else stayed home, fearful, you carried on. Not for applause. Just because it was expected… and because you always have.
But here’s the question no-one really asks you. What would actually stop you going to work?
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