At one point during service, Bingochea asks me how I'm feeling.
As someone who appreciates their sleep, I'm honest: "I feel exhausted," I say. "How do you feel?"
"I could go another 12 hours," he tells me.
Baffled, I ask him how this could be.
"You either want to be here or you don't," he responds. It's the people, he says, that keep him going.
It takes a certain kind of person to be energized by other people. They're what you would call extroverts. It may not be a required skill for the job, but it certainly helps in Bingochea's case.
"This job will test your skills with people. It's not for everybody," he says. Even he has bad days, he admits.
But, he says, "Coming here, you regroup and re-instill your faith in yourself and your fellow man."
And if you can't manage it? "Every time we lose somebody, there are 100 people waiting for this job," Bingochea says.