My job is pretty directly tied to the economy, and so the last couple years, and the next couple of years may be a little lean and scary.

I am a minor principal/manager of a small Civil engineering firm.

Some days (we landed a huge project!) are great, some days (you need to go lay someone off) suck. Most days are just fine, and I don't hate my job at all.

Yesterday, I had eight hours of frantic phone calls, e-mails, and meetings due to too much snow on the roof of an old manufacturing facility. My boss said I looked like: "A cat covering sh!t and getting the sand from the next county", but I can't complain. I was earning money for my firm, and ultimately helped keep the facility up and running, thus keeping about 50 people working in the times before holidays.

When I shut down my computer yesterday, it felt pretty good.

This morning I had a meeting with some people who we are doing a design/permit/build project for. The project is about 50% completed they were so happy with the results, we added a bunch of add-ons this morning. So, two great days in a row.

I'm going to cut out right now to make sure if something goes wrong now, it happens when I am on holiday.