Swimming against stress - DAY 16 of 30 day writing challenge
How do you prepare for a day that you know is going to be harsh and hard? Those days when do you want to call in sick, go missing or anything to miss this days but eventually can’t because you already traveled 700 km and checked in in the hotel. Such days when you say, o boy this is going to hurt.
Last evening I received such a call at 23:30 pm (I have to have the cell open 24/7 based on contract) where the guys from the factory informed me to be prepared that a whole assembly line which should start today will be not ready as two robots have collided and are broken. The problem is that today the customer is coming and the line should be running to maximum capacity. Good luck with that. This is a 30 million EUR project, so it must be running smoothly, at least this is what the customer paid for. But it is not, and I have to deal with it. The initial question is how do you prepare for such a day. I do sports before, so I try to book hotels with a swimming pool or at least a gym.
I find swimming like running, being alone with yourself and bringing your body on autopilot your mind can be free. I like the feeling of cold water; it pushes you to keep on moving. As I was young I played water polo in the national league(only league) in Romania, and now at my old age, played in Germany in the 3rd,4th and 5th.
I wanted to write today about something else, but this was bugging me the whole night and maybe I wanted to let some steam of.
By the way, now I’m in a short brake where I can post this as it did not work in the morning, and the customer is fine with my presentation about the problem. They gave us one more week, which is huge as they lose 50000 EUR/day.
i believe in you. the fact that you got this out of ya brain and into here means you have shared the task, if not physically but mentally! now go and crush that problem. make they pay you more, have a beer at the end of the day, take time to celebrate the wins!
Thank you! It went ok, as we came to an agreement to delay it for one week. It is more the ok for automotive. Now some boring presentations are held on the screen. I will need to take them on to dinner so there will be a more relaxed atmosohere, especially that I'm paying :))
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