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<blockquote data-quote="air_dr" data-source="post: 817282" data-attributes="member: 29929"><p>What do you mean by things getting very bad today...?</p><p> </p><p>I have been at UPS for over 11 years now and am a part time air driver. I worked preload for close to four years. Your posts bring up memories of my own feelings in my early days at UPS. Presently I see UPS as my life career. During training, when I was first taken out to what would become my work area and met the guys there, I remember feeling I didn't think they were the kind of people I wanted to particularly be around and I would neither fit in, nor even particularly want to... Over time I sort of became one of them...</p><p> </p><p>And for the record, I am pretty skinny...but I have good endurance...and have found myself having been able to do the work in the hub.</p><p> </p><p>Finally, as far as the monotony, this comment may seem off the wall, but I'll take a chance and say it...finding meaning in your work is almost a spiritual question... "Practicing the Presence of God" was a book written centuries ago by Brother Laurence of the Resurrection. He was assigned many mundane jobs in the monastary and he learned to find genuine joy, meaning, and purpose in even the most dull tasks... Whether or not you stay at UPS, I would encourage you to give very serious thought to "What is worthwhile under the sun?" to use King Solomon's phrase from the Book of Ecclesiastes. It's a big life question for us all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="air_dr, post: 817282, member: 29929"] What do you mean by things getting very bad today...? I have been at UPS for over 11 years now and am a part time air driver. I worked preload for close to four years. Your posts bring up memories of my own feelings in my early days at UPS. Presently I see UPS as my life career. During training, when I was first taken out to what would become my work area and met the guys there, I remember feeling I didn't think they were the kind of people I wanted to particularly be around and I would neither fit in, nor even particularly want to... Over time I sort of became one of them... And for the record, I am pretty skinny...but I have good endurance...and have found myself having been able to do the work in the hub. Finally, as far as the monotony, this comment may seem off the wall, but I'll take a chance and say it...finding meaning in your work is almost a spiritual question... "Practicing the Presence of God" was a book written centuries ago by Brother Laurence of the Resurrection. He was assigned many mundane jobs in the monastary and he learned to find genuine joy, meaning, and purpose in even the most dull tasks... Whether or not you stay at UPS, I would encourage you to give very serious thought to "What is worthwhile under the sun?" to use King Solomon's phrase from the Book of Ecclesiastes. It's a big life question for us all. [/QUOTE]
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