Many view firemen as guys who sit around all day, cooking up delicious meals in the firehouse, only to be disturbed when the occasional fire call is required.
Not many people in the population understand the demands of an entrepreneur because they assume the career choice brings a lifestyle of relaxing on the beach while making the occasional conference call.
After so many months in which his primary human contact had been an occasional phone call or brief conversations with an inmate down the tier, shouted through steel doors at the top of their lungs, he found himself unable to carry on a face-to-face conversation.