Now I know why you're wincing!

I read these postings, and one of the things that I wanted to comment on was how important the people you work with (and for)are. Often, they make the difference between going into work with a knot in your stomach, or looking forward to telling someone what you did over the weekend. The best job can be Hell if you have a lousy boss or some obnoxious person you have to work with, and the lousies job can be reasonably enjoyable if your're working for and with the right people. I'm glad that you had a stretch of time with good people to work with, Wincing. I was Director of a large Museum for many years, and had a great staff... intelligent, creative, positive people who I enjoyed as co-workers and friends. When I retired a couple of years ago, there was a complete shake-up, and within six months almost all the old staff was gone. We all bemoaned what was lost, but I reminded people that we got away with a great working relationship for thirty years. I consider it a blessing to get five years. I've also worked on an assembly line for Fisher Body, doing mind-numbing, repetitive work and had a good time doing it because I was working with friends, and the repetitiveness of the job freed our minds to horse around and have a lot of fun. The ideal job is one that's creatively challenging, well-paying with good people to work with. Those kind of jobs are hard to come by. I don't think that you find them by chance.

Who knows, Wincing... maybe you'll get an even better job and have to change your Mudcat moniker to Dancing Devil! :-)

Jerry