Being self-employed, I get each and every single t/c, wakes me up many nights. I used to be the only one on call for like 10 years continuous, weekends, holidays, Christmas, New Years, everything. 24/7/365/10 years, no break at all, not for anything. Not because I wanted to, but because of the lack of savvy in the labor pool. Some people can't be trained much, if they don't have enough gray matter upstairs to begin with. Not to mention the huge amount of substance abusers and behavioral problems they used to shove my way w/o warning. Now after 16 years in business I can afford help with the duty, but I still have to handle the initial reports, dispatch, and take it myself if the duty on-call guy decides to get drunk, or won't p/u his phone, or forgets he was on call. Either way, every call doesn't get past me w/o some kind of stress. Wish I could just completely turn my back on it, (lord knows I've paid my dues), but that risks everything.
Last edited by Vic; 09/13/12 03:47 AM.
