Just stuff....
I can't remember exactly what year I started work with the Agway farm store. Maybe it was 1997ish. I could go look it up if I really wanted to know but it doesn't matter. It's enough that is was a long time ago. It was back when it was all really a farm store and there were still a lot of farms to keep it going. I took the job to just hold me over while I looked for work in my trade. After awhile I realized I liked what I was doing just fine. I turned down jobs in my trade and stayed.... and stayed... Agway went bankrupt and our DM bought our store. It was still Agway but then privately owned. We had a lot of fun, I worked with great people and I really loved the customers I worked with. A few more years, a few other opportunities I passed on and then a chain of events led to Glen selling our store to Aubuchon Hardware. Things changed a lot. Some changes happened quickly and others so slowly that it took a long time to realize just what it was that was missing. Funny, I always kept thinking things "have to get better" there and I was holding onto fun memories thinking that kind of work atmosphere would have to come back at some point when everything settled in. It never did.
It was a comfortable rut though after awhile and at my age I'm not ready for any major career changes... SO the whole point of that long ramble is that I don't have a job to go back to in the Spring. I have very mixed feelings and I'll be babbling a lot here to help my brain sort them out. I'm glad LJ stll feels like a cozy, safe, home kinda place for me even after being gone for so long.