Worst day of the year was last Thursday, but Monday was golden - what makes a shift go sideways?

Last Thursday I had three back-to-back jobs where every attic was a sauna and two customers wanted me to fish cable through finished walls with no access panels. Took me 45 minutes just to find a clear path on one house. Then Monday came around and I finished six installs by 2 PM with zero callbacks, all clean terminations. Same tools, same skills, different outcome. Do you think it's mostly the job conditions or your mindset that decides how a day goes? I'm leaning 60/40 towards conditions after that week.

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the_ryan1mo ago

Stop making it sound like a life or death thing. It's just hooking up wires, not open heart surgery. You had a bad week, I get it. But blaming conditions for a rough day is just an excuse to not look at what you could have done different.

thea_mitchell201mo ago

Oh man that sounds EXACTLY like the kind of week that makes you question your whole career choice. It's wild how two days can feel like completely different jobs when one goes smooth and the other is a total grinder. I've had days where I show up ready to conquer the world and the universe is like "NOPE here's a drywall patch job from hell." Honestly I think conditions are like 70 percent of it because you can have the BEST attitude but when customers are being unreasonable and the wiring is a nightmare it just drags everything down. But then some days you get that golden flow where everything clicks and you wonder why it can't be like that every single time.