Luuuunch. Food helps.

[ladynorbert]

I've recently come up with the notion that my job is roughly, vaguely analogous to that of the President of the United States. (I don't mean Bush specifically, but any President.) Here's why.

1. There are people who love us and think we're doing a fantastic job; and then there are those who don't particularly like us; and then there are those who don't give us much thought either way. And then there are those who think that we suck and can't wait to see us leave the post.

2. We are vastly outnumbered by the people we serve.

3. There will always be at least a few people who watch us closely and take great satisfaction in seeing us screw up.

4. People who have done our jobs before us are perfectly well convinced that we can never do it as well as they did.

5. We're more or less perpetually on duty, whether we like it or not.

6. We find ourselves in situations that no amount of job training could possibly have prepared us for.

7. We are tried and convicted on a regular basis in the court of public opinion.

8. Yet at the same time, we have the weird sort of security of knowing that nobody really wants anything to happen to us, because who would step in to take our place?

This place can really make a person mental.