I had heard that most people who work for someone else never quit worrying about getting fired. That is at least until they are forty, but probably until the day they retire or die. Today, I came to a point in some of my work where some of the problems I thought belonged to me were not really anything over which I had any control AND most of the people around me understood that. After the meeting where I arrived at that conclusion, I looked out the window and saw our magnificent Mt. Rainier. It is not any different than it has been since we arrived in Centralia and the same is true for my job. I am at the point in my work that if there is a problem in my domain and I cannot solve it, there are probably very few others that could either. That is more a product of longevity and experience than brilliance, but I need to remember that. People are almost never against me in these contexts, they just have their own burdens and their own angst about getting fired. I need to be on their side.