In all honesty I am amazed that I didn’t botch a repair or cut my finger off during that day
During my career as a certified HVAC repairman I have learned a long list of things over the years. Unfortunately for me, the majority of the lessons that I have learned, I have had to learn the hard way. One of the latest lessons that I learned was that having coffee before starting my day of work as a certified HVAC repairman doesn’t work for me. This is something that I learned a long time ago when I first started this job, but now that I could be considered a “veteran” I have started to slack a little bit. Two weekends ago I ended up having a very long weekend celebrating my best friend’s birthday with a little too much bottles of beer and late nights. By the end of the festivities I was completely drained heading into the workweek and I thought that coffee was my only hope to get me through monday. The thing that I failed to consider was just how nervous and crazy I get whenever I have such a high amount of caffeine in my system. During the entire time that I was out helping customers and fixing up heating and cooling units that day, I was so twitchy and sweaty that I was making tons of mistakes and cutting myself on a few different occasions. In all honesty I am amazed that I didn’t botch a repair or cut my finger off during that day. I learned a lesson from it all though, and from now on I am staying as far away from coffee during the workweek as possible.