I drive ~70 miles one way Saturday morning, do a day shift, sleep in the company apartment Saturday night, do Sunday day, drive home. Maybe 1 night shift during the week in the month. Worth ~$200K/year.
Not dangerous, I get M-F off, and I really like the crew with which I work.
I don't fault people who have their one job they have ever had, and love it, and so on, but don't try to tell other people that what they do isn't right. It's like marrying your first girlfriend you met when you were 15 - prom date, first girl you kissed, first girl you screwed, married early, deathly in love, maybe a couple of kids - that is lovely and perfect. However, your advice to another person about who to date or where to find them is of little value. Or, to put it another way, it's like people on SDN from Canada or Australia or the UK, who talk about doing "X", and, collectively, people raise their eyebrows, saying "we don't do that because of COBRA/EMTALA/whatever", and the first people say "well, that's how it is where we are!". Umm, OK.
Or, to belabor the point
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, if we were talking about the weather, and if I was still living in Hawai'i, for me to say "I don't have to shovel the snow. Roads are clear and it is sunny and warm", and I wasn't being sarcastic, but sincere, my weather on a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific cannot be extrapolated to the US at large.