My neighbor popped over for lunch today and we had an interesting conversation.
I’m a stay-at-home mom, and he works as an online data entry person.
It is great to have someone living close by that I can have an adult conversation with from time to time. At any rate, we got to talking about the news story that we had heard this morning on our local programs. One of them has been about a tragic fire that happened overnight in the city and, due to cold weather, firefighters had a hard time putting it out. They had to deal with frozen hybrids and the fact that the water was freezing last add hit the fire. Many are the fireman in the story with covered with ice himself just from spraying it. I couldn’t imagine having a job where I had to work out of the elements year-round no matter what they were. We started talking about all the professions that had to do this and I was surprised when he mentioned that he even felt sorry for HVAC technicians. All of the components for my AC system are located within the house so I never gave a thought to the fact that many have large units sitting in the yard. These units must be service and repair even if it is the middle of summer or the middle of winter. Trying to work on electrical components well either sweating to death from the Sun or freezing cannot be a fun job. I guess this is why you see so many commercials during the Spring and fall the try to get you to have your tune-up done during that time. I have a lot of respect for anyone who does a job where they have to be outside all the time. I don’t think that I would be able to do that.