The never ending cycle . 3 a.m. ..drag your carcass out of bed . Drive for an hour through the bush ( that part could be worse , kangaroos , emus , the red ball sun cracking over the brown dirt and eucalyptus trees ) .. enter the hell of an underground minesite . Get mentally assaulted as soon as you arrive . Problem after problem where they want some sort of miracle response immediately . Meetings with suppliers , meetings about targets , tour the surface workings acting like you give a #### . Journey to the centre of the earth ( well , a mile down anyway ) to check the latest spur drive or stope . Meeting with the GM and listen to why the dumb , lazy #### is not happy about whatever peripheral issue this time . Look through 40 resumes .. none which even address the essential criteria in them ? Eat some food , first spoonful in and more people wanting solutions crashing through the door . Finally 12 hours later putting your plan for the night shift to the shift boss ... knowing full well when you get back tomorrow none of it will have been done as you said ... then the hour drive back to sanctuary.... for like what ? ....the 9000 time since you first walked onto a minesite as a nervous , anxious 15 yr old .
There must be more to life than this ..... well , there probably isn't , but there ###### well should be .... once more into the breach .
#### work .