Where are you moving from?

Snow is a fixture of life in the winter. Minnesota kids are traditionally given shovels on Halloween to dig out driveways while trick or treating. From then, there's a snowpack of about 6-8 inches on the ground until around Memorial Day.

Since it's such a commonplace thing, snow isn't a great excuse for missing work. Your boss and coworkers went through the same slop to get in as you did, so you'll be expected to arrive within the first 6 hours of your shift. You'll want to leave 3 hours early during the bad storms. 1 hour to account for the ice and snow and 2 hours to account for the dozen accidents on 494 that will surely be waiting for you.

More of a problem than the 144 inches of annual snowfall is the 22 hours of daily polar night during the cold months. You'll see just enough sunlight to melt a patch of ice on your walkway which will then re-freeze into a sheenless matte of treacherous death glass overnight.

While you're digging out from the snow plows which have inadvertently blocked you in, you may notice that the -20 degrees being bolstered by howling prairie wind is pretty nippy and that several of your fingers have been frostbitten and fallen off. These are called Minnesota blueberries and it's kind of a rite of passage. Also that's what you get for buying your gloves at Walmart.

So all in all, yeah, winter can be a challenge at times, but overall still better than living anywhere else.