The last few years I’ve finally had jobs where I mostly speak with people and work in an office. But I’ve spent years working in facilities where alarms and drills and screaming were just a constant whole 40 hours of the week. On top of it, I’ve spent years riding buses and trains that were set-up with total disregard for noise pollution. All of these were situations where adjustments could have made the environment much healthier for hearing but lazy managers and organizers just couldn’t be bothered to protect their pawns. Now, I’m white collar but I pretty regularly fear the day when my hearing starts going in a big way, probably just as I’m hitting my stride career wise and I end up functionally disabled. So stupid and selfish.