Remembering Longaberger

Some of you know I spent 5 years working at The Longaberger Company. I started out in the communications department where we did a live TV show for the company each day. It was a pretty great work experience, and we won some great awards for the work we did.

After that I took a job as Manager of Entertainment at Longaberger Homestead. I did so with some trepidation as it was not exactly the job of my dreams (based on responsibility). But what I found was that it was a great work experience, not because of the job, but because of the folks I worked with. (Anita, Nancy, Dan, Bill, Salle, Elaine and Sue).

I mention this because I was lucky enough to run into a couple of the ladies I worked with the other night at a local restaurant (Anita and Nancy). We laughed, cackled, giggled, and generally made a lot of noise as we reminisced a bit.

And it occured to me that during the time when we were doing events every weekend, a parade everyday, and shows non-stop, it was not the job that I liked. I liked the fact that we LAUGHED ALL THE TIME! Maybe that was why it was a hard job to leave.

I like my job much more now. I love the freedom I have MUCH more now. But I do miss those meetings when we giggled past professionalism. Good times.