The choice for me is very easy. Get a shot that might kill me suddenly or cripple me any time at random, for the foreseeable future, and risk leaving my family behind with no breadwinner by my death or permanent injury... Or leave a career and find another, legality be damned if it comes to that.
As a stoic, I try to make the best judgement to change a situation that I can change. Everything else I am not concerned about. I will deal with it when I get there. I know that I may lose my job and prospect of future employment (thankfully it did not come to that) but I will find another means of sustenance, whether it be mowing lawns and driving around the state with my welding rig, generator, etc., and do nomadic handyman stuff, or hustle. And if it really needs to be, I'd fucking street hustle. I am from the hood to begin with. I fucking went to high school routinely LOADED with Black & Milds, Dutches, blunt wraps, and made a reasonable amount of pocket money off that shit because that's how we roll in Fort Greene and downtown Brooklyn. School security took away your Newports or shit and you need a quick light up in the staircase at lunch? Look no further. Newport hunnerds'? Marlboro Menthols? Come on man I got all that shit just keep your voice down dawg, ight? Hey I got a Bic too. I'd give you a light at no charge but you want the Bic as well that'll be a dollar. No problem, I got you, that's what we fucking do around here. Stoicism in Brooklyn isn't learned from some Greek philosopher in a history book. You learn it right on the block when you see homeboy peddling some side shit when he's coming back from driving an MTA bus still in his uniform because he knows everybody on the block wants some. No limit to what you gotta do, just don't take no dick in yo mouth or ass thats about it. Don't hurt innocents either.
Decisions. You can make em when you are alive homie. Not when you are dead. So going back to that "shot", it was easy about what decision I was going to make and I knew that if it comes down to the worst, I am gonna have to ride any available current, but I ain't ending up dead or crippled. I told my coworkers already that if ever that shit is mandated door to door or some goofy shit like that I am gonna take a bitch ass muthafucka with me.