This past year has been hectic. My final semester at Clemson University flew by in a matter of fleeting moments. Then, I had to hurry up and wait in a 6 month purgatory period of working as a server in a restaurant in an empty college town during the summer months. Meanwhile, I finished paying off the lease on my apartment before I could move to Charleston, South Carolina and begin my brand spanking new career as a... "to be determined". Life felt like an in-between space and like I was just living temporarily until I got to the next big thing. Everyone told me hunting for a job was a full-time job and they weren't kidding. After I moved to Charleston, it took another month or two to find the Craftsman position I was hired for at the new fantastic company I am working for, now.
My experience at the company alone has been a wild ride. First, I was interviewed for a Glass Artisan position that I really wanted and the company ended up rearranging some internal positions and the glass position was absorbed from within. They told me to hang tight for a bit and they would call me back when another opportunity presented itself. They called me back within a couple of weeks. This time, in the form of a Craftsman Apprentice, I was hired on to the team. Here, my duties included building luxury lighting fixtures from kits (provided by our source department) of raw materials, like copper and brass. I soldered the structures together and sanded down the materials to refine the edges and begin to prep the surfaces for the finishing department. About a month in, my skin was becoming increasingly irritated by the finely sanded metal particles floating around the production area as my coworkers and I were sanding down dozens of lights per day. Eventually, this irritation was more obviously an allergy as I was the only one with red, swollen eyelids and scratching like a got into poison ivy from head to toe. Many people from the company did their best to help me find a solution for my allergy, but ultimately I was moved to section known as Glass Wire Pack (GWP).
I am grateful I was kept on board and get to continue working for a really forward-thinking and progressive company. GWP requires me to install the glass in the finished lights, wire and install the lighting clusters, and then package the final product to be shipped out through our shipping department. Easy and a bit repetitive, but its a job and its getting me started on hopefully a very fruitful career. However, another position has opened up in the glass department and I practically tripped over my own elbows and knees trying to turn in all the necessary documents required to be evaluated for this position. I am very interested in the glass position because it will allow me to flex my artistic skills and challenge a part of my brain that I enjoy being challenged. The deadline for applications was this past Friday. So, I should be getting some results by next week. Fingers crossed!
SO, I've shared all of this to basically explain that I have been overwhelmed, lost, confused, lazy, busy, moving, and a million other things that have made me slack on posting to my blog. I insist that this must change and knowing myself very well I will promise to post at least once a month to start. Additional posts will just be bonuses, but there is no reason why I shouldn't sit down with myself and write at least once a month. Even if no one reads these posts, I feel like writing and blogging are a healthy mental practice and I need the centering every once in a while. I will be here periodically
to update my life's happenings and my thoughts whether you like it or not!