cieranc:
Happy Keith:
Is the answer to ‘know what you can do; know what you can’t do - and then learn the difference’?That’s not a question.
Yes it is.
Here’s a tip! A ‘Lukes Top Tip’ if you will! Think about things in the context of your life. How will I feel about this in 10/20/30 years? The day I put my lorry in the ditch was stressful of course, but I controlled the stress by remembering that eventually it’ll just be an entertaining story for the pub. You becoming seriously ill, a friend of family member ill or dying is something to get stressed about and will impact your life. Work is not. I like pressure, it’s no secret I used to run as bent as a nine bob note and I loved the pressure and thrived under it but making a boat/delivery/traffic never stressed me. I did/do my best and that’s it.
Meaning you dont run bent anymore ■■?
Marcelleke:
Meaning you dont run bent anymore ■■?
Don’t let the fact I drive for an Irish company deceive you, we run 100% legal. I’d say 110% but I hate that saying. But then I just said it. Balls
switchlogic:
Marcelleke:
Meaning you dont run bent anymore ■■?Don’t let the fact I drive for an Irish company deceive you, we run 100% legal. I’d say 110% but I hate that saying. But then I just said it. Balls
There were (and still are!) as many Scottish, Welsh or English companies which ran every bit as bent as the Irish, especially when trundling around the continent. It’s just that the Irish were more open about it.
A lot of people seem to forget that, it must be the lack of oxygen they are getting atop that high horse of theirs … 
switchlogic:
Here’s a tip! A ‘Lukes Top Tip’ if you will! Think about things in the context of your life. How will I feel about this in 10/20/30 years? The day I put my lorry in the ditch was stressful of course, but I controlled the stress by remembering that eventually it’ll just be an entertaining story for the pub. You becoming seriously ill, a friend of family member ill or dying is something to get stressed about and will impact your life. Work is not. I like pressure, it’s no secret I used to run as bent as a nine bob note and I loved the pressure and thrived under it but making a boat/delivery/traffic never stressed me. I did/do my best and that’s it.
I just think to myself “100 years from now no one will know and no one will care” never fails to calm me down 
Gogan:
switchlogic:
Marcelleke:
Meaning you dont run bent anymore ■■?Don’t let the fact I drive for an Irish company deceive you, we run 100% legal. I’d say 110% but I hate that saying. But then I just said it. Balls
There were (and still are!) as many Scottish, Welsh or English companies which ran every bit as bent as the Irish, especially when trundling around the continent. It’s just that the Irish were more open about it.
A lot of people seem to forget that, it must be the lack of oxygen they are getting atop that high horse of theirs …
Spot on there. In fact these days I reckon you’ll find more UK companies running bent than Rep of Ireland ones. Mainly because VOSA never pull them. I’ve been in the checkpoint at Holyhead in a long queue and the VOSA officer went down the line and told all the UK reg trucks to carry on their merry way, including one 7.5t that looked like it was held together with bailer twine, while they checked a selection of new to 3 year old Irish trucks.
Marcelleke:
Meaning you dont run bent anymore ■■?
no he dosn’t, but he is as bent as a nine bob note. 
SmashedCrabFace:
Happy Keith:
SmashedCrabFace:
‘…So, who thinks it is a stressful job and why…?’Is the answer to ‘know what you can do; know what you can’t do - and then learn the difference’?
No, that’s just another question Keith.
Without a definition of what ‘…stressful…’ is, then the thread ‘question’ is subjective to each & every one of us.
'…tressful…’ clearly means different things to different people, and all I’m doing is suggesting that the answer to whether a job is stressful (or not) is to understand one’s own philosphophy to stuff likely to raise stress and what one can do about it, eg, rant about it or otherwise calmly manage it.