There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.
You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.
There is what might be called a Catch-22 of hazardous occupations: The more hazardous the job, the more men; the more men, the less we care about making the job safer. The Catch-22 of hazardous occupations creates a 'glass cellar' which few women wish to enter. Women are alienated not just out of the fear of being hurt on the job, but by an atmosphere that can make a hazardous job more hazardous than it needs to be.
You can be an astronaut, knowing it can be super dangerous but understand intuitively what the risk issues are. Not having the same usable knowledge about the risk of football, or any line of work, doesn't work.
A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.
I oppose increased black-lung benefits for miners, because ‘they chose to be miners.
Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.
Injuries are part of the job.
I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that's part of football. That's like a firefighter knowing he is going to go into a fire at some point. You know you are going to be put in danger's way, and you accept that risk, and you do it.
Scorpions like holes. We had to put our arms in the holes to dig out the smelting residues. We always performed critter checks before an excavation, but one morning, I put an arm in and felt a sharp pierce. When I brought my hand out, it was red and already swelling.
What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any other profession.
A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.
The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.
Being in a Chinese coal mine for 30 years is like an epic novel. It's tragic.
None of us can promise any of you that what you now do for a living is absolutely safe from now on.
My father lost an eye to a snapped cable while trying to rescue trapped miners, though he kept on working for fifteen years afterward.
People who go to the polar regions are statistically less likely to die than salesmen who drive on motorways in England.
I'm not necessarily in a vocation where I'm at risk; it's not like I'm a police officer. I'm a musician, so when I leave home, my family expects me to come back.
On 'Grey's,' if you have a bad day as a doctor, you lose a patient. But what's crazy about 'Station 19' is if you have a bad day as a firefighter, the patient dies, or you die, or your partner dies. It's a whole other level of stakes.
In this profession, you hurt the body a little. It's normal. Part of the job.
My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around.
My ears are shot. I'm a musician.
As far as I am concerned, ambition is the most dangerous occupation in the world. I have never been ambitious, or if I have, it's only been by default.
Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk.
There's not many jobs that I would put my body on the line for.
