I had an extremely fast-paced and difficult day today at my job. I am a local certified heating and air conditioning technician. I am an independent contractor, so I set my own schedule. This is actually very convenient for me and I love working for myself and working at my own pace.That being said, sometimes mistakes can be made. Recently, you can say that I got a little overeager in trying to schedule as much business as I possibly could. The way I set things up today, I had to move extremely quickly from appointment to appointment. I still tried to put in the quality work that I built up a reputation for doing, but it was difficult! I would finish fixing one furnace or troubleshooting one HVAC system, and then I would have to drive over to the very next appointment with a very short time frame between trips. As I said, I set my own schedule, so I wasn’t really forced into this extremely tight and stressful situation. It turns out that I had simply made the mistake of overbooking one of my work days. I did this because so many calls for HVAC service had come in, and I lost track of them all. The next time that I find myself overbooked, I think I’m just going to have to tell my customers to look to a different HVAC company. I would not necessarily want to leave them hanging, but I really need to avoid such stressful days!