Hard day? Yeah, right!
It was only four years ago that I was banging back and forth between SOU and GCI for what was then Jersey European, in the venerable F27.
I can remember days when we flew six sectors when both places were fogbound, that's six approaches to minimums with at least four go-arounds, holding and diversions, all in an aircraft with no autopilot or flight director, agricultural de-icing, and all the other joys of 1950s technology (like running out of pneumatics because the system couldn't recharge quickly enough with the demands placed on it by short sectors and go-arounds).
Sounds like our hero mentioned above had a pretty easy day, actually.
And you try to tell young people that today- and they don't believe you...!!!
(apologies to M Python Esq)