Everyone has a pair of shoes that they have had for a long time. A pair of shoes that you may have worn day in and day out for seven or eight years. And while they are comfortable, and you comfortable in them, they start to lose their appeal. You find a different pair of shoes and are excited about them. But in the back of your mind, you still think about those shoes. Those shoes were practically your identity. And when you get a chance, you slip those shoes back on and everything feels. You all get that the shoes were a metaphor for work right? Right?
I was given an opportunity to work with food again. Still within the same company and store I am in now, so no big move or anything like that. They are realigning how the departments are overseen and the furniture department is being reworked. So, I get a chance to get back into a food department. It feels like I have never really left working with it. It's nice because I work early in the morning, can listen to my own music for the majority of my shift, and have the afternoon to do whatever I want. Mostly sit around and nap. But there's times when productivity will come into play.
The store has already seen improvements within the department in terms of sales and stocking, so that's a plus. I have had many people at work ask me how I like it. And I tell them it's like I've never left. It's like an old broken in, comfortable pair of shoes you wore for so long that when you left them in the closet for a year and a half, you almost forgot about them. The metaphor might make more sense now, but whatever.
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