Airdude said:
I should also add that I refrain from working overtime shifts during Sabbath hours unless I know that there is no one else able to work. 
Airdude...now I know where your name came from...cool.
In my opinion, you have nothing to feel the least bit guilty over. My daughter works as a cook in a nursing home here in town. She is in charge of the kitchen that prepares all of the special diet meals.
When she became Adventist, she marched right in there and told them that due to her religious convictions she could no longer work on Saturdays. She thought for sure they were going to say, "fine, don't let the door hit you...", but they didn't. They respected her wishes and granted her a schedule with Friday/Saturday off. However, this is a retirement facility/nursing home. The people there are all elderly, and many of them are sick.
THEY HAVE TO EAT. If, therefore, due to vacation schedules, someone getting hurt and being off work for awhile, or someone calling in sick, she covers their shifts no matter what day of the week it is. There is a lovely eldery woman in our congregation that just frets horribly whenever my daughter isn't at church. One Sabbath, she went a little too far for my tastes in her words. She asked me, "isn't there any place else to work in this town?" I gently told her that the people in this facility are elderly, many are sick, they cannot fend for themselves, and they have to eat. I asked her, "if you were in a facility like this, and YOUR cook was a Sabbath keeper, would you appreciate being told you aren't going to eat at all today because your cook won't work on Saturdays?" People have to eat, and as Jesus said, "if your lamb fell into a pit, you would lift it out, are people of less value than a lamb?" Not verbatim but you all know the story. A sheepish look came over this lady's face, telling me that she got my drift, and that she had been thinking selfishly.
My sister, years ago, worked as an RT. She had a pager for awhile, because she was one of only two therapists at the time, in this particular hospital. There is nothing worse than not being able to breathe. May God bless you for the relief you bring to your patients, as well as for the deep sense of caring you have for them, that I can feel through your posts.
You have NOTHING to feel guilty about, in my humble opinion.
to just give up your job and go out there and find a new one probably, but God will bless you for it!
