What is the most stressful time of your professional year?
Is it April and May, for all you bookkeepers and accountants?
Or June through October for the construction contractor.
Maybe its every couple weeks when payroll is due, or when you have to, must do this or that for a client and if you don't, well.....
Consider that time, thing, deal that takes all your concentration, and see the strain and worry of it reflected on the face of the highway worker who plowed your way to work, or school or possibly even hospital.
Know that he feels personally responsible for your safety, and that he would much rather be home, taking a snow day, sledding with his kids.
Will he make over the mountain one more, two more, four more times tonight without 'finding' the invisible edge of the road? Can he be gentle with his equipment, make it last long enough to get you and you kids where they need to be, or will it breakdown and lose him hours?
And what about those kids, driving way to fast and that road he just cleared, will they make another corner, another mile? Who will be there first to pull them from their car, to call for help.
Consider his family, who want to share their day, and be with him, and all he wants is to eat, shower and shut down. To wake up for the next shift to see that all his effort, skill and professionalism gained him nothing.
Four more inches of snow, freezing rain and a tricky commute.
Let me help, I'll go first, just give me room to work.
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Being Unabridged
8 years ago