Hmm, okay, let's say we compare:
- Working in the back of the house in a restaurant
- Someone who visits old people and also cooks and cleans for them.
The first one, while requiring skill and being a relatively low-paid job that a lot of people might not want to take, technically doesn't require customer interaction. (And perhaps not even much in the way of English skills, which makes it a more practical job for some immigrants.)
For the home visit, the actual cooking and cleaning, though important, might not actually be the most important reason they're there?
I think the difference is that there are two ways to burn out from the job, or the pressure comes from multiple ways, than other jobs.
This is anecdotal, but my mother in law spent a decade paying home visits to disabled vets. This is not senior care, but you see similar situations of people with special needs and an inability to care for themselves fully. Two things that she emphasized were how she was hugely underpaid for the work she actually did (as opposed to the work she was minimally required to do) and how she needed frequent, long spans filling paperwork to recover from the physical and mental duties. I may be wrong, but you don't often see that with jobs that require exertion on a single front unless it's extremely stressful and salaried accordingly (e.g. surgeon).
