Being "Clariton Clear"

I took a job this week working for Slim. I didn't want to admit it, but I was secretly excited, just itching to do something, anything to peel myself from the sectional which had become my "office" for the last six months. Two hours in and I began to breakout into a sweat, I was bored, I caught myself counting down the hours until I would be done, and I had a headache that would last for the next seven hours. Could it be that during my short time of unemployment, I had developed an allergic reaction to working?

What I once considered a fictional ailment to excuse me from my chores as a kid, was now my adult reality. I shook it off as first day jitters, but just in case I did what anyone suffering from illness in this new age of information would do, WebMD. I found info on every allergen under the sun...food, pet, nasal...but nothing that would be of actual use. My last couple of jobs have been so repulsive, I'm surprised that nausea hadn't set in long before now. Fortunately, the pain of work subsided once I was comfortably back on my home "office". Hopefully, unemployment is not the Zyrtec to my problem. Perhaps my real problem is the fear that I will fall back into the corporate rat race that used and discarded me. I can't say the experience has been all bad, there are worse things than not having a job.

Slim decided to put me on "working training wheels". Two days a week, 16hrs total. On day two, no sweating, I wasn't as bored, and the headache didn't last nearly as long. Maybe I'm not allergic after all. Perhaps the real cure for any allergy or itch is a paycheck.