Took the beefs out the dehydrator this morning. They got overdried. Been a minute since I've done it before gonna take a few batches before I get the hang of it.

Washing the dehydrator trays and got to coughing and sneezing again. It even got to the wife sitting a room away.

They're insanely hot. Might be beyond my limit. When I put the pepper dust on them I only dusted the top tray in the smoker, anything on the bottom caught a little runoff but they aren't red/orange like the ones that were on the top. I tasted one from the bottom.

I think maybe I shouldn't have used all the peppers. I think there were about 15 scorpions and 6 habaneros. The habaneros are fine for me, but maybe 3-4 scorpions would've been plenty.

When you promote and become the boss... remember how you feel right now, and be the boss you want. 🌫

I need to mow the lawn. Back to work tomorrow so gotta do all the things today. Need to do the ditch too.

I hear ya, I will never go to management cause I don't want to deal with askholes like me... But that is sound advice.

Yes. That can work.

UNTIL you get bosses (yes, multiple) who don’t give a shiite and put unrealistic metric expectations on you, and you are forced to pass that unrealism to your people or you will be considered either not Onboard or a Team Player.

That is when you are in the vortex.

Even Jesus had a boss.

I did a brief stint in low/mid management.

It was awful. Everyone above you hates you if everyone below you likes you. If the higher ups like you, the ones below you do not. It's impossible to get balance. You are blamed for everything from both sides. I quit after one of the machine operators stabbed me.

The hospital is constantly trying to get me to take a management position. At least 2x/yr I'm getting emails and phone calls asking me to fill a management job that's opening. I tell them no every time but they keep trying.

What do you know about the ghost pepper beef-jerky from Buc-ees?

That describes part of the way management was at the law firm I worked at for 9 years. On top of that, I'd get conflicting orders/rules, after the fact, that made no sense. I was a serious team player for 5 or so years, then said fuggit. Did myown thing and figure out work-arounds to stupid rules. Major support staff turnover too. Just tried to do what I thought was right then and finally got the nerve and capital to go out on my own.

8-Track, when this job is over, in several years, get a job you will like. It's life altering.