Endurance: Part 2, Chapters1-3

“Nevertheless, there was a remarkable absence of discouragement. All the men were in a state of dazed fatigue, and nobody paused to reflect on the terrible consequences of losing their ship.” (Lansing 63). This in many ways reminds me of my own work. When I first started at Jimmy John’s I often times should have gotten discouraged because I messed up on a delivery by forgetting something, but I was so tired of working I didn’t care. I was not used to the working life. Of course the crew of the ship Endurance had a real reason to be dazed and fatigued though. They worked a lot harder than me, and their lives were in real danger. The crew constantly impresses me these men were not discouraged even after their ship became stuck in the ice. Not only was it stuck but it started leaking because of the pressure of the ice and the men under Shackleton’s orders abandoned ship. They had to start living in tents and even Shackleton took some for the team he tented up with some people he didn’t  like including someone you could call his opposite or antithesis Reginald W. James the physicist.