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If it's emergencies only and you get compensated handsomely many people will feel it's worth it. Of course reality often looks different.



depends on how you value your vacation time with family/friends/to yourself.


In my experience, people jostle to take part in a rotating on-call roster where they are sufficiently compensated, in my case $1700/week, to occasionally answer one or two calls.




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