Hmmmmm.....So where to start?
After nearly 8 years of being an "at home" mom, I (like many other moms in 2008) was nudged to rejoin the workforce. I received an email that the local cable provider was hiring Customer Service Reps and jumped at the opportunity. This should be fun, right? A steady little income for myself, good benefits, adult conversation, and a chance to lessen the load on my wonderful hubby! Ha! Boy was I wrong! Well...not completely, the job afforded me all those things. However, I soon learned how much I did NOT enjoy punching a clock, being monitored, selling goods I myself had zero interest in, apologizing for some other idiots mistakes, and for heaven's sake committing to being on time everyday!!! Fast forward 6 months.
Although, I'd met a few co-workers who made the days quite enjoyable, I still wasn't exactly thrilled to come to work everyday. I guess I was spoiled because 5 days per week seemed a bit excessive! LOL. My husband had only requested I work 6 months and then I could resign and stay at home with our two boys again. Now that the time had come for me to possibly quit there was a new variable...You guessed it moolah! I hate to admit it but I became accustomed to our two person income. The sound of a couple extra dollars rustling around in my pockets was a sweet one. So I had to really consider, was work really so bad that I would give that up. I mean, I guess I could deal with the daily grind for the sake of my checkbook, right? So I did. (Damn, that evil dollar bill!) I decided to stay , but I'd need to distract myself from all the things I didn't like about work with my knitting and crocheting. Seriously, that would be the only way for me to stay sane!
I started bringing 1 or 2 skeins of yarn to work and working up hat and scarf sets here and there. These were easy because they didn't require patterns and I could do them while I worked without totally spacing out on my customers. But as you may know, the typical hat and scarf can get a little boring and uneventful after so many. So I started working on elaborate knitted cable patterns, which caused me to constantly ask my customers to, "hold" while I searched for my place in the pattern. Well obviously, my supervisor wasn't too happy about that, so I needed to find another way to maintain my sanity. Enter: Amigurumi! My 1 or 2 skeins turned into a rubber storage bin filled with colorful skeins of yarn and a few back up size "D" crochet hooks. My amigurumi patterns are all simple and because they finish quick, I never get bored with them. For the first time in my yarn-working life, I finish just about everything I start! My workdays are soooo much easier now! I'm not as drained when I get home and don't tell my husband but, sometimes I'm excited to go if I'm finishing up another fun project!
