May 10, 2020 – My time has been served, 41 days of quarantine and in just a few hours, I will be returning to my job. It is bittersweet. I hate to use that term, but it fits my life a lot it seems. I have thoroughly enjoyed being able to be on my own schedule, somewhat.
I was a stay at home mom for so long. I returned to work, in the school system in 2007 and after three years, I was laid off, that is a whole ‘nother blog post. So, I settled back into the stay-at-home mom role and became very involved in my kids’ lives and activities. Then, I started feeling like I needed to prepare myself for the inevitable. My kids were growing up and I could see that I wasn’t going to be their taxi service anymore. Life was going to change again. I wanted to be ahead of that and I started looking for work. I had NO clue what I was going to do.
My husband had been deployed several times and returned each time only to find it hard to get a job. We had our share of rough times finanacially. We held on strong and made it through those times. Now, I had a tough decision ahead of me. I opted to branch out and look for something I considered “fun”. I wanted to be paid to do something “fun” again. I had been an event coordinator for Michael’s and really loved it. I was able to do creative stuff, meet creative people and kinda had my own schedule. That was a short stint, worked great while hubby was deployed. So, I scoured ads and found one for an “embroidery operator”. Heck. That was easy! I could do that. So I applied.
That was 2012, the same year I lost my daddy, then my nanny and my best friend – I needed a distraction. I needed to get out there again. Fortunately, after a trial run I was offered the job and started in January 2013. Here we are 2020 and I have to say, this is the LONGEST job I have had in my life! To say I love it, is probably an understatement.
Getting back will mean I give up some of that free time. I have never taken that free time for granted but since June 2019, I had really been working my ass off. The “shut down” was a break I needed to get that wind back into my sails and get my spirits back up. My home projects had fallen so far behind and were weighing on me emotionally. I hate to have unfinished things! As always, I wish I had more time but I know that I made the best of the time I had.
Don’t expect much to be posted. I don’t even know what work is going to be like at this point. Hope I’m busy again but maybe ease into it at first. The “healthy at work” guidelines are enough to make ya wanna stay home, but I don’t have a choice. I was called up and I gotta go. Can’t ride this government gravey bowl no more.
Be sure to check in on the podcast, SASS WITH CASS. I hope to still have time for it. I have an episode recorded that I hope to publish after this post. Plans are to still record on Friday and publish on Saturday.
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