What is a profession that you have limitless respect for?

Teachers. Big time.

Garbage collectors/sanitation workers.

Hospice Nurses.

Librarians and Archivists

Special education teachers.

Ambulance medic and drivers. I've seen what it is like when they can't get a person stable enough to transport despite trying desperately hard with a 36yo mom in front of her 2 kids. I've heard stories of trips that just didn't make it. I was once one of those stories. I was told they stuck around hoping I would make it because I was difficult to stabilize and barely made it. I've been told, the incidences involving kids are the hardest. Anyone that can do that job has my deepest respect.

Fire fighters and people who work for hospice.

• Climatologists. I took a fair number of undergraduate climatology courses, and witnessed first hand how researchers have to wade through the intense politicization of their discipline. I don't know how they do it? They must have nerves of steel.
• Veterinarians and veterinary technicians. Vets have to learn more medicine than most doctors and apply it across a wide range of species, because just having to deal with human physiology would be too easy. And yet it's not a high-paying profession and they often have to deal directly with angry pet owners feeling they're being overcharged. It's a high burnout profession. Vet techs, for their part, do everything a nurse practitioner would do, plus add a bunch of extras like anesthesiology, basic surgeries, and so on.

Kid's teachers. That job is HARD. Tried it and couldn't do it. College, on the other hand, is relatively chill; as long as you stay out of drama and politics.

Janitors, the crap they have to deal with I couldn't even handle. But somehow almost all of them are really nice people once you get to know them.

Stunt people.