[turbocarrera]

In 1990 I was 19 or so and worked in a gold-exploration camp in northern British Columbia - my longest stint was 9 weeks of 14-16hr days, 7 days a week. I was close to the breaking point, or so I thought...

There was a Vietnamese guy there who never seemed to have taken his fly-out weeks. It turned out he had arrived in camp over Easter and worked every day till Thanksgiving - no small feat to split drill-core for 180 days straight. He said he made more in one day than his entire family of 12 could make in a month in Vietnam and he was working to bring them all to Canada.

I always think of him whenever work gets me down.