It’s Furious Balancing

You can tell that your level of job stress has reached an all-time high when you wake up in the morning with the following prayer on your lips:

Sweet Jesus, let me make it through the day without anything catching on fire.

A yep. There was a electrical fire in my boss’ office yesterday. Old space heater, old wiring, no surge protector. There were no injuries or loss of legal papers — just flames coming out of the outlet. This made for a very interesting morning, I must say.¹

There were no fires at my office today.

I’m counting it as a “good day.”

It’s important to have realistic expectations.

1. I come back after two days of a nasty head cold to 16 voice mail messages, 3 clients throwing what can only be described as hissy fits, and 4 gentlemen from the Ann Arbor Fire Department. [↩]

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