I’m a freelancer and have to deliver and keep deadlines, but also I have a computer job so anything apart from brain damage can be somehow managed I guess. Still, I try to do this with maximum responsibility. I wear protection every day on the trails and don’t do anything I don’t feel ready for. I think you can do this sport with a risk level comparable to other sports if you don’t constantly pray and send it, like 80 % of those friday fails dudes. ER visits don’t have to be a regular part of the sport. But of course, you can just run out of luck. My neighbour as a kid, a pro violinist, fell on the the stairs, tried to protect his $200.000 violin, and so managed to break both his arms and the violin too (He recovered and was able to laugh about it a few years later).