I’ve been showing up four days a week at the same time & place for the past 20 years, as of today. I’ve been trying to wrap my head around that for a while… a plant just showed up on my desk that spells it out in black & white, so I guess it’s really true.
My work life has always represented stability. I’ve worked since I was in high school, except for five years after Maddy was born when I was determined to be a SAHM*, but only a handful of jobs/employers. And I’d still be happily working as a typesetter at the Northwoods Shopper, the Bargain Bulletin, the Tillamook County Shopping Guide, or Metro Press if any of them were still a thing** (and where I’d be staring down 50 years in that occupation)! I worked for my dad at the first & third of those jobs, and for the same large family at the second & fourth — and it was connection to that large family that landed me where I am.
I had just discovered knitting blogs 20 years ago, having rediscovered knitting (again), and began blogging myself just a few months later, so the two are very much entwined. When I think about all of the things that have happened in that time — much of which I blogged about (but not all) — it boggles my mind. It actually makes me a little anxious! So here’s a gallery of skies, all taken at work — in the morning, in the evening, or on my walk to the mailbox — the sky is always calming (even when it’s not). Remember Saturday Sky?
I plan to be sitting here for another five years… though, as of the new year, I’ll be cutting back a little. At first, I was going to cut back to three days a week, but 20-year-old habits die hard, so I’m easing in with cutting back to three days every other week. haha. It truly is “a little.” Technically, still full time, but I’ll have a stretch of five days off every other week, alternating with regular weekends off — and that, my friends, is the game-changer. I cannot wait! (It might make cutting back every week a little easier.) (But I like my paycheck, too!)
*It was difficult to get used to not working, but I did get used to it… and I loved it!
**Or for my mom at On The Avenue Antique Mall.
