When you think your job is difficult:

Different field, I do Pharmaceutical development. 30 years and have been through 8 layoffs resulting from other departments not doing their job. Missed being cut 3 times, got cut 5 times. Relocated my family 4 times to get another job in my field.

I somehow have managed to make chicken salad out of the chicken sh*t I've been served and have clawed my way up in the ranks. 70 hour weeks for decades and one year I did 104 airplane flights in 43 weeks chasing vendors and contracts. I was home less than 1/3 of the year.

My level and experience now puts me above being cut since there is always another firm that wants my expertise and will pay to get it. Only took 28 of the 30 years on the job to get to that level. :BangHead:

Now all I want to do is retire and get my life back.