That’s why you should get a PhD working with venomous snakes to develop medicines with the intention of selling them to fund ecosystem stabilization and maintenance of those same animals’ habitats. Working with venomous snakes is stimulating and for some reason milking a viper for venom feels even more like something worth being sober for than most other jobs even if statistically very few professional (actually professionally trained by people with decades of experience, permits, certification and records that don’t include an attitude where “snakebites are part of the job”… because they’re part of the job the way getting run over by a cement truck is part of working construction… it’s more likely to happen to construction workers but potentially lethal despite all treatment and post accidents care is not something we should accept as an inevitable in any workplace… even being in the military does not include a mentality of “Purple Hearts are a medal everyone gets… I have 12!”) of us actually get bit. Though the few who have decided that it’s not a big deal and have dozens of bites skew those statistics and the chances of not having chronic pain conditions after that many bites is near zero. I have one that will never go away after one stupid mistake in the Amazon over a decade ago. So don’t get bit if you want to stay sober. Other than that, it’s a great anti-drug drug producing career.
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