Maybe you're a cop or a firefighter or, like me, a utility worker.
Maybe you're working a cash register at a gas station.
Or selling concessions or parking cars at a sporting event.
Or driving an ambulance. Or working the emergency room in a hospital where that ambulance will show up.
Maybe you're guarding our borders or patrolling our coasts.
Maybe you're answering the phone at a suicide prevention hotline.
Or you might be the concierge at a fancy hotel. Or a maid at that same hotel. Or a dishwasher.
Whatever it is that you do that causes you to be working on a holiday, you have been deemed "essential". The wheels of our economy simply cannot turn if you don't forego quality time with your family and show up for work.