Let me guess, you provide patient care in a facility that runs 24/7, all day, every day, even major holidays?  Hospitals, nursing facilities, EMS providers, police, and fire, all essential services that can't shut down for a holiday or chaos will ensue.   This means you have to work holidays.  It's a given when we signed up for this career.  Too bad we can't shut the doors like some in the service industry do on the major holidays. Perhaps we can alternate with a partner facilities, kinda like coffee shops do?  This location closed for Thanksgiving, please use this alternate location for care.  Nope, this would never work, never ever never.  It would be nice, lets get that right.  We would be able to spend the holidays with our families and loved ones, which is the point of the holidays.  Family! Now that we’ve succumbed to the notion that we are stuck being away from our families on these holidays, we have to put on our big boy (or...