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I Have to Sit Down

But it’s not my job!

Last updated on: May 5, 2015 at 9:21 am   by Simcha Fisher

But it’s not my job! 2015-05-05T09:21:02-05:00 Simcha Fisher

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Any normal person, when faced with a heap of excrement like this, would go get the shovel and clean it up. Maybe they wouldn’t be happy about it, but they would clean it up, because it is a pile of dog poop in the middle of the yard. Instead, I started listing all the things I had already gotten done that day, all the things I was still going to do, and I said, “No! It’s not my job! I had enough things that are my job. Not gonna do it. Not. My. Job.”

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