ABSTRACT
It is true of most jobs that you don’t really understand the diffi culties and pressures unless you have actually done the job or have lived with someone who has. I occasionally have pipe dreams of owning a small café or possibly improving my fi tness by becoming a postman. Yet these brief fantasies usually involve a steady stream of customers coming into the shop, never too many. It is always possible to serve them quickly, I’ve always got exactly what they want, and they’re always happy. In my life as a postman it is always sunny and all packages are correctly addressed. There are no hailstorms, angry dogs or packages that don’t fi t into letter boxes.
