A Stressful World
Yesterday I spent the day helping my friend to set up a booth for a MasterChef expo down in Sydney. Her brother is a famous Chef at a local organic restaurant. As I was contemplating all the work that is involved with being a Chef – cooking, managing staff, judging competitions... I said casually “That must be quite stressful for your brother to do all that”. To which my friend replied: “It is stressful; I heard Chef and bricklayer are the 2 most stressful jobs.” Chef, I can totally see that it is a stressful job, especially if you’re not just cooking but also building a reputation, running a business as in the case of my friend’s brother, and trying to advance the culinary science with innovative recipes. But bricklayer?... Who would think being a bricklayer is a stressful job? Hard-working job, certainly. Physical job, absolutely. Stressful job? I’m not quite convinced. I still have the image that bricklayers are well-built guys with a nice tan, and they whistle at pretty girls w...