As some of the people being interviewed for this The Dailypodcast, “Stories From the Great American Labor Shortage,” were talking, it made me think about emergency managers and how we live our professional lives. We are on call all the time. There is the threat of failure to perform in a disaster that haunts us. We have all these different requirements that we are expected to do, yet most of the time we don’t have the resources to do all of them or to even do any of them well. But, it is what we do, so we get up, put on our shoes and off we go. We don’t know any better. It is the life we are living.
Take an extended period of time off and you too might re-examine how you are living your life and thinking that there must be another way. It is Sunday afternoon and here I am in my office writing this...
