I got a job with Hosmer Mountain Soda. They found out the clerk who worked at their outlet store had been taking money from the register, and fired him. In need of someone they trusted, they called me and asked if I would be interested. I was, and started shortly after getting back to CT.
It’s an easy job that has plenty of downtime. So far I haven’t been able to use that time too constructively, but I’m starting on a few online classes. One just because it’s interesting, and the other to further develop my web design skills. I’m only doing three days a week at the Soda Shack, so the other four can be devoted to freelance web work.
Steady money from Hosmer, with opportunity for much more on my own terms, is a really nice situation to be in. We were pretty low for a while there, with problems mounting and opportunities dwindling. Friends, family, and fortitude got us through it, and things are looking up again.
There’s a newspaper clipping in the Shack of the obituary of the man who worked there for many many years. Though I don’t think he was ever an owner, he was a dedicated employee of the company, and had the epitaph ‘Soda Man’ put on his headstone. Looks like I landed a -man job after all.