aug

taken 19/8/10, 12:44pm

i think what a lot of people under-estimate is just how much it takes outta you to do nothing all day. it's really quite mentally taxing as i've found out again and again.

like during the first month after i was posted to my station, i was doing 9 hours in the office or 14 hour shifts outside. i thought it was gonna be a good time but always wondered why i felt so damn tired when i went out with my friends after work. after all i've been doing nothing all day!

what you see in the picture is us trying to stay alive for 14+ hours a day, 21 days straight. everyday i would wake up at 6:30am and get home around 9:30pm or later, just in time to sleep for the next day.

before we signed up for this job, we thought it was going to be easy, doing nothing for good money. under-estimation at its worst. it's really easy to forget just how bad it gets.

fortunately though, i got a very cushy posting at a nice big hotel instead of some shitty outdoor thing that would have felt a lot worse i'm sure. but still, never under-estimate.