I take of cancer patients. I love my job and take it seriously. Even though I get sick of work sometimes, I also feel like it’s my saving grace and I am incredibly thankful that I fell into this line of work. My therapist has said a few times that we don’t end up in helping professions by accident. I assume he’s referring to something in our past experiences that has led us to seek relief in some way by helping others get through a hard time. For me it might be that my parents were distracted with events in their own lives leaving them unable to be attuned to me, so now I spend my work hours taking care of others and giving them my full attention in ways that I didn’t have. I clearly fulfills a need for me. I’m curious how many of us have ended up in helping fields? It doesn’t even have to be medical or psych fields, but any fields including teaching, writing, or volunteer work, etc.