Turning the page

[carolina-rig-01]

Well a few months ago I told a couple of you guys that I was going to be losing my job at the end of March. The vinyl siding company I have worked at for the last 7 years was closing down. Well yesterday was my last day of work. They paid us 2 weeks in lieu of notice and shut down 2 weeks earlier than they planned. This could not have happened at a worse time, literally the day that we learned that we were losing our jobs was the day that they broke ground on our new house. I knew that building a house in this economy was a risky decision but business had sucked for 3 years and they hadn't shut down yet, and they kept talking about how 2013 was when things were projected to start getting better so I felt pretty good about job security. Anyways we are going to land on our feet, I found a new job a few weeks ago. My new job is a better job anyways, with better hours and it's not a production which is worth a lot to me. I will now be home every evening with Britney and Lake so I am excited about that. I have been talking for the last 3 years about finding a new job but I just never did, so in a way this is a good thing because it forced me to find another job and I know in the long run I will be happier. Yesterday we went in for a good bye dinner and then we all went to the bowling alley for a little party and said our goodbyes. It was a lot harder than I ever thought it would be to say goodbye to all the people I worked with, honestly the people I worked with was the main reason I never found another job. I worked with several people that I consider my best friends and it was always fun working with them. We will all still hang out and do stuff together, and I fish with a few of them but it still won't be the same. Anyways, I just thought I would let you all know that I am turning the page and starting a new job on Wednesday. I am going to be a product development technician in a prototype shop for a company called Leggett & Platt. Basically engineers design new products and then we will make one of them to send of to be destroyed through testing, then we will make changes and build it again and again until we get it right. This is going to be a good change because I was tired of working in production and the noon to midnight shift was getting really old.