In the face of collapse

I do not recall ever feeling like I would fall over from exhaustion. In my time of exploration on the bicycle I have climbed Mt. Lemon, Trail Ridge Road and Clingmans Dome. I have run over thirty miles through Canada, contributed to several iron pours as an artist and stayed awake for a week straight for a summer intensive during undergraduate school. I have hike several ridges in the Sierra Madres. I have done some tough tasks. I have also worked some physically demanding jobs, but nothing like I have experienced the first few days at my new job. As a new Dent Tech trainee for Dent Wizard International I was run through the guantlet the first week. Standing for 9 hours is no problem. Bending over repetitively for that period of time is a bit tougher, but bending over and staying there for 9 hours is a different story. Once you can figure out how to do that then you are now in the desperate postion that enables you to visualize damage incurred on a car door. I would describe the task of a paintless dent removal technician as nothing less than miraculous. You have to be able to touch a penny with the end of a yard stick and repetitively move that stick around the center of the penny with millimeter precision. While doing that you have to stand bent at the waste with your head at your knees. If you can manage several hours of this ritual without falling over on your face, you might be able to do the job.

I am tired. I will now sleep.