So who's really putting a shift in these days?

How difficult is your job? Mine obviously requires unparalleled levels of genius but what about other vocations — nursing, teaching, law enforcement for example?

- ANDREW HAIGH

Take off school holidays and training days and teachers probably put in fewer hours per week than a Premier League footballer spends on the pitch.

And just how arduous is confiscating mobile phones and extolling the virtues of some bloke from Stratford-Upon-Avon?

Granted, nursing does have its tricky moments but the NHS has plans in place to limit the workload.

If you’re awaiting treatment in A&E — every now and again a nurse will appear, to inform the assembled sick and injured that the wait for bandages will be approximately three days — in the hope that the majority of cases will do the decent thing and expire elsewhere.