Seventh Anniversary..

This past week I celebrated seven years at my job. Now most people don't celebrate or even consider celebrating the anniversary of working at a job...it's just a job. Well that's not me, I really like what I do for a living and never dread going to work,unless I'm ill. I've been working off and on since I was sixteen years old. My very first job was at a Dairy Queen in my small home town. I've worked three times as a waitress, twice at garment factories, three times as a cashier for Wal-Mart and once as an overnight toy stocker for Wal-Mart.I've pumped gas,washed windshields, put together picture frames, delivered newspapers, and tried my hand at cosmetology. I've cleaned homes, was a receptionist/hairdresser at a funeral home and last but certainly not least a homemaker and mother. Before I was hired at my present job I worked a couple days here and there for temp services. Then in November 1999 I was sent by a temp service to my present job and after working as a temp for three months was hired full time on February 14,2000. At that time there was one daytime (me) and one nightshift employee in the printing department and the local division of the company employed a little more than one hundred people in a small three story building downtown. Now we are in west Little Rock in our own big beautiful building and the division employs more than four hundred and growing.Two years after I was hired I was placed under a different manager and with this change came big changes for me.My new manager placed me in a supervisory role and hired four employees for me to manage.I had no prior experience as management, but my new manager had confidence that I could handle the job.I'm proud to be able to say that in my years over the printing service department I have managed to cut staff by 50% while increasing production yearly.Each year I come in under budget and continually receive outstanding reviews from both my manager ,as well as excutive management.We're in the process of upgrading all equipment this year and increasing production in the process.It's going to be an exciting year and a busy one. If I sound proud, it's because I am.I use to tell people I felt that the only good thing I had accomplished in my life was raising my son,now I feel I have another good accomplishment , my job. My hope is that I will still be working at this job when it becomes retirement time.I have to say I'm not looking forward to that time, I can't imagine sitting home everyday and I hate soap operas. So I pray the good Lord allows me to stay in decent health to continually work many years to come, or I become a millionaire and can spend my days traveling.First stop Italy...second stop Vermont....after that, who knows........