Sometimes it’s really difficult when people want to challenge you in life. I feel like there are a lot of humans who want to test others to make sure that they live up to certain expectations. This is definitely the case when you’re starting to date somebody new, when you are applying for a job, and when you are dealing with difficult relatives. For me, I have been most majorly impacted by my employers consistent desire to test my practical skills in our specialized field. You see, I work as a heating, cooling, and ventilation technician for a large indoor air quality control corporation who tends to hire their HVAC workers directly out of the heating and cooling certification school. Because they always want to hire the youngest kids in the heating and cooling industry, they are also always trying to test us for practical skills in repairing and servicing are handling devices. They want to make sure that we actually know what we’re doing with forced air furnaces and air conditioning systems before we are on the job and giving them a bad name for faulty HVAC repairs. I understand their concerns, but I am quite tired of their sneaky tests in practical air quality control management. Most recently, I was frustrated after being sent out to an AC repair job which was apparently a test of my air conditioning knowledge. The owner of the shop sent me to his own house to inspect his cooling system after reportedly experiencing hot and cold patches all day. After hours of toiling at the AC unit… I found out it was all a test. There was nothing wrong with the cooling system.