This week covered restaurant maintenance, commercial repainting, finish carpentry, service window installation, and facility repairs — a good example of the variety that comes with working as a commercial handyman in North Georgia.

But headaches always grew into eruptions.

The frustrations the clients would go through when their buildings failed. With only the smallest movement to a resolve. The impossible feeling of those corrections, when finding a trade. Even the insanity of dealing with our own internal politics. It would break those who were not ready, for the unknowing and uncontrollable stress.

I learned very quickly, that I did not have a chance of accomplishing a single job from my desk.

Not without the sweat of another on the project.