A sigh of relief

If my working week could be represented by an open book, at the end of this week I would've closed the book shut, never to be opened again.

My job as a courier driver is usually fairly straight forward & simple. I might have a busy or bad day every now & then, but not every day as it has been this last week. I've had extra work to do every day, & have been home late most evenings.

Some reason this week, come the end of the day, there's always an urgent job to be picked up that must be delivered today, not overnight, as our system is supposed to operate.

The last couple of days our air freight from Sydney has not arrived on time, so due to no fault of our own, we ended up with two days of freight to deliver in one day. I managed to finish the week & got home at a reasonable hour, so now a rough week behind me, I can have a couple of days off & look to the week new ahead. It's gonna be great.

Routines

Yes I am a routine man. I like to know what I have to do & when it has to be done, so my current job at Network Couriers works well for me.

I have a set run twice a day, with certain places I go have to every day at certain set times. It's all in my head & I know it off by heart.

So when a customer decides that during the winter they're going to open half an hour later in the mornings, it can be, well, a pain in the neck.

I have to slightly re-arrange the morning schedule to suit, which means I have to do another job, then backtrack. It's really not that much of a hassle, but when you have your jobs set out as 1, 2, 3, 4 & you have to change them to 1, 3, 4, 2 it makes you think more. That's the problem, I don't like to think, I would rather just do it.

How about you? Do you get annoyed when your routine gets messed around, or do you like different things all the time? Too much to think about, gives me a headache, Arhh.