| Occasionally I get these flash-back things, usually under extreme duress, like a tanked market and my company running low on cash, tapping into the forward funds again <sigh>. All of the unresolved old issues come waltzing back in the door. I don't always find the axe-handle in time.
Greg only thinks Tech Support is tough. Try riding a corp, that you are the majority stockholder of, though this quarter. It hasn't been fun and it isn't going to be fun for a while. In most jobs, if you perform well, you get to keep it. As the head of a company, even if you do well, there are outside factors that you have no control over (NorthPoint?) and you not only lose your job, but all the folks working for you lose theirs as well.
Tech Support may be the third most frustrating profession (engineering and police beat it on stress-points, according to official stats), but Greg ought to try writing code for a living.
The single good thing ... whatever happens to me now can't ever equal what happened to me back them. No one is shooting at me and I don't have to shoot anyone first. Every day above ground is a good one, by definition. |
