Last Call for Alcohol
So……….this is the life of a government employee! It’s 9:00 P.M. on Sunday evening and where am I? WORK! How long will I be here? Who knows, I just filled out my time sheet for today. I’ve worked 39 hours of over-time since last Sunday. That’s right, 79 hours in the span that normal people work 40. One of the guys on my hockey team said, “you know what your problem is Todd? You care too much!” He wasn’t really being serious because I think it makes most people happy to see people who work for the government working their asses off. Since most people feel like we are leaches sucking the life blood out of every good and decent American tax-payer. The good news is that I’m designing a road the will access the construction site for a Chemical Munitions Demilitarization facility. In short we’re working on getting rid of old WWII chemical stockpiles and I think that’s a worth while cause. The other projects I work on include Unexploded Ordinance Removal and Military firing ranges, life has really turned out to be interesting. I’m also becoming one of the best there is in this building with a certain software package and that gives me a sense of job security. BUT, back to the qoute from the guy that plays hockey with me. I told him that it’s not that I care about the Corps as much as I care about letting the people I work with down. It gives me a great sense of pride to turn out a package that’s professional quality and something that gives us a good enough reputation to keep work coming in the door, but it also gives me a sense of pride that I’m someone people can count on to get something done, and I’ve spent enough time in the field with these guys that they’ve become friends to me and closer in some ways and that makes it impossible for me to do anything but work my ass off to get this thing done right. SO, I’ll probably be here all night or atleast into the wee hours of the morning, but when the sun comes up and a brand new day arrives this package will be ready to be fed-exed to it’s destination and I’ll be ready to go home, take a shower, change clothes and come back in and finish my day.
For now that’s all.
Todder