idrivethetruck
Slow & steady wins the race.
"Man up"? I could also go on about what my own father endured after contracting Polio at the age of 17, spending months in an iron lung, years in rehab, and then over 55 years confined to a wheelchair. He bought a mail order art class and spent years practicing so he could earn a living for himself. The Polio destroyed all of the big muscles in his body but he still had the smaller muscles for dexterity. He would paint the bottom half of a painting or commercial rendering and then someone would turn the picture over and he would complete the top half upside down because he couldn't lift his arms.Man up or back away.
Around the age of 7, I became his muscles. While my friends were playing baseball, football, riding bikes, etc, I was pruning, mowing, digging, cleaning, and everything else that needed to be done around the house that he wasn't able to do. I became the maintenance man for some rental property my parent's owned. I was sanding floors, painting, plumbing, and repairing electrical issues before I was a teenager. I believe I "manned-up" long before I actually became a man.
Someone asked how to become a driver, and I gave my opinion about the job as it exists today. When I was hired, I was completely blind to what a UPS man actually endured on the job. I figured he needed to know the dark side of it also. I do believe at the end of my comment, I wished him luck.
Another said it couldn't be that bad if I was still working for UPS. I merely explained why it was I was still driving and for some reason, you felt the need to butt-in and attack me personally?