Dakrys

Ah, because he "picks them up."

I was going to make this joke, but I didn't want to come across that creepy.

Props to you. No shame.

I have a friend who's a paramedic. I once asked him about his first time finding a dead body.

Basically, the dude had a heart attack, lived alone, died alone. But they show up on scene after some calls of stinking and whatnot, to find him lying on the floor on his back.

I guess, because it would become a crime scene should the body be dead, they weren't allowed to enter the room unless he was still alive. But they still had to verify that he was actually deceased. So he was leaning into the room while his paramedic buddies held onto his belt. I can only imagine he loves that belt after it didn't snap open and drop him face-first onto a dead guy.

I'm like in highschool hearing this story (friend's older brother), so I'm like, "Wow, that's pretty hardcore. What did you do after that shift? Were you like upset or anything?"

"We all went to taco bell and talked about dicks."

"...Oh."

It makes a lot of sense. People love to hate on lobbyists for their potential role in taking peoples' jobs away, but lobbyists can also work to protect those same jobs.

Everybody hates a defense attorney because they represent criminals and try to get them out of jailtime. Until somebody who is considered to be innocent takes the stand, and the guy is a beacon for truth and democracy. That's probably the best comparison I can come up with.

Assuming you're a somewhat frequent reddit user, what is it like? Your profession is constantly the scapegoat for every political discussion. "Those evil lobbyists, doing their job and getting paid for it. Why I oughtta...." Even when reddit scapegoats do show up and do AMAs, they're either jumped on for some semantic issue in a reply or they're exonerated as "One of the few, few, good ones," without disrupting the circlejerk scapegoat flow. So mad props for doing this.

Q: If you had to pick the top 3 misconceptions about your job, (as it relates to the field, not necessarily to you specifically), what would they be and what is really going on there?