Back to the Bakery for Me
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: South Jersey
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Great minds think alike--the EXACT same thought crossed my mind as Anvil's!
Sometimes it really is good to take a break from a job that's been wearing you down--sometimes you find out the grass really isn't greener and you have a newfound appreciation for it after some time away. I changed jobs back in the mid-late 90s when I moved to Colorado, and I couldn't WAIT to get back to my old job. Of course, I had left for other reasons (moved across country with second alcoholic husband--bit mistake), but it still gave me new appreciation for what I had.
Great to hear--and congrats on the deal you cut! Sometimes a break gives the EMPLOYER newfound appreciation for YOU.
Sometimes it really is good to take a break from a job that's been wearing you down--sometimes you find out the grass really isn't greener and you have a newfound appreciation for it after some time away. I changed jobs back in the mid-late 90s when I moved to Colorado, and I couldn't WAIT to get back to my old job. Of course, I had left for other reasons (moved across country with second alcoholic husband--bit mistake), but it still gave me new appreciation for what I had.
Great to hear--and congrats on the deal you cut! Sometimes a break gives the EMPLOYER newfound appreciation for YOU.
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Baton Rouge, La.
Posts: 15,238
That's awesome that you will return to
your passion for baking. Or will you decorate?
Be in management?
I had the opportunity and experience
to work in a local bakery here in Baton
Rouge a few yrs back. I didn't decorate
or bake, but was able to work in customer
service waiting on the customers, filling
orders and treating co-workers the way id
want to be treated.
If you have time to go to the website
I added below, you can find me in a
commercial where they are making
our famous king cakes and am the
lady at the front counter talking.
However, I decided not to remain
at the bakery, but was glad to have
had the experience to share with
others in that field of work too.
https://www.ambrosiabakery.com/tv-ads
My husband and I definitely enjoy
watching all the cooking shows on
tv, whether it be baking or cooking.
Wishing you so much joy back in
the bakery.
your passion for baking. Or will you decorate?
Be in management?
I had the opportunity and experience
to work in a local bakery here in Baton
Rouge a few yrs back. I didn't decorate
or bake, but was able to work in customer
service waiting on the customers, filling
orders and treating co-workers the way id
want to be treated.
If you have time to go to the website
I added below, you can find me in a
commercial where they are making
our famous king cakes and am the
lady at the front counter talking.
However, I decided not to remain
at the bakery, but was glad to have
had the experience to share with
others in that field of work too.
https://www.ambrosiabakery.com/tv-ads
My husband and I definitely enjoy
watching all the cooking shows on
tv, whether it be baking or cooking.
Wishing you so much joy back in
the bakery.
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Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Midwest
Posts: 11,481
aasharon, thanks for the links--I checked out the commercials, looks like a wonderful place! I myself won't be baking; I was a wholesale delivery person when I first worked there in 2001 and eventually branched out into doing the ordering, stocking, etc., for all the beverages for the restaurant/catering side of the business. Actually, XAH worked there w/me, and together we were the shipping/receiving department!
Then I left to go back to school for medical transcription, attracted by the flexible hours and ability to work from home. It was a decent job for the first few years but then pay and demand both dropped off sharply on the heels of advances in voice recognition technology. I ended up back at the bakery after 10 years away, but it seemed as if no time at all had passed--it seemed as if I fit right back into place, doing my delivery thing (and kind of becoming the "lead transportation person" who did scheduling for the drivers, took care of maintenance appointments for vehicles, etc.) and also handling a lot of the random things that need doing around a restaurant/bakery--picking up repaired microwaves, running to Restaurant Depot, delivering catering orders when the caterers were swamped, taking chairs to the upholsterer to be redone, picking up new artwork at the framing place...on and on.
Since the summer of 2014, I'd been looking around for something w/benefits, suspecting that divorce was not far off (XAH carried my health insurance as the bakery had no benefits at all). I found the lab courier job in the nick of time, literally being hired days before the divorce was finalized. I didn't really want to leave the bakery, but practical considerations dictated my actions, and so I had to go.
The courier job turned out to be very different than expected, but I did eventually make my peace w/it. It was no more than a paycheck to me, but again, we do what we have to do...and the story of how I come to be returning to the bakery has already been told in the first post.
So today I just returned from picking up the van I'll be driving for work as well as using to commute to work (mutually beneficial--vans were being stored near the warehouse in a shaky neighborhood and were often vandalized, so if I take mine home, I get a free ride to and from work and the boss gets a van kept in a safe place). I'm looking forward to starting on Monday--I know there will be a lot of variety, a lot of ways for me to make a difference, and a feeling of satisfaction at having done something real. It certainly comes w/its own set of frustrations, but I'm willing to deal with those as part of the package. No place has ever felt as much like home to me as this place, and I have to think there's a reason for all that has happened.
Here is the site for the place I'll be working: The City Market No bakery pics, but if you scroll to "Cafes" and click the "menu" button, there are things from the restaurant side that will make your mouth water!! Pear and gorgonzola flatbread, oh my....
Then I left to go back to school for medical transcription, attracted by the flexible hours and ability to work from home. It was a decent job for the first few years but then pay and demand both dropped off sharply on the heels of advances in voice recognition technology. I ended up back at the bakery after 10 years away, but it seemed as if no time at all had passed--it seemed as if I fit right back into place, doing my delivery thing (and kind of becoming the "lead transportation person" who did scheduling for the drivers, took care of maintenance appointments for vehicles, etc.) and also handling a lot of the random things that need doing around a restaurant/bakery--picking up repaired microwaves, running to Restaurant Depot, delivering catering orders when the caterers were swamped, taking chairs to the upholsterer to be redone, picking up new artwork at the framing place...on and on.
Since the summer of 2014, I'd been looking around for something w/benefits, suspecting that divorce was not far off (XAH carried my health insurance as the bakery had no benefits at all). I found the lab courier job in the nick of time, literally being hired days before the divorce was finalized. I didn't really want to leave the bakery, but practical considerations dictated my actions, and so I had to go.
The courier job turned out to be very different than expected, but I did eventually make my peace w/it. It was no more than a paycheck to me, but again, we do what we have to do...and the story of how I come to be returning to the bakery has already been told in the first post.
So today I just returned from picking up the van I'll be driving for work as well as using to commute to work (mutually beneficial--vans were being stored near the warehouse in a shaky neighborhood and were often vandalized, so if I take mine home, I get a free ride to and from work and the boss gets a van kept in a safe place). I'm looking forward to starting on Monday--I know there will be a lot of variety, a lot of ways for me to make a difference, and a feeling of satisfaction at having done something real. It certainly comes w/its own set of frustrations, but I'm willing to deal with those as part of the package. No place has ever felt as much like home to me as this place, and I have to think there's a reason for all that has happened.
Here is the site for the place I'll be working: The City Market No bakery pics, but if you scroll to "Cafes" and click the "menu" button, there are things from the restaurant side that will make your mouth water!! Pear and gorgonzola flatbread, oh my....
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Baton Rouge, La.
Posts: 15,238
I believe things are meant to happen
in our lives for some sort of reason
whether we like them or not.
I am from Baton Rouge, my hometown,
but at about 6 or 7 yrs sober my little
family, husband and 2 little ones made
a move to Houston to give our kids more
options in education and opportunities
in life.
Me, I never wanted to go, but I prayed
in the beginning to my HP Higher Power
that I would leave everything I had to
follow Him where He would want me to
be. So off to Houston I went.
I continued on my recovery path
being a mom and wife, working a
few odd jobs as the rest of the family
grew and matured in their life. Me,
all I wanted was to return to my home
in Baton Rouge and had no idea how
I would do.
We were in a 25yr marriage and in
my heart I wasn't happy so I began
doing my footwork by reaching into
my past at those jobs I had before and
after my little family.
Department store retail, bank teller,
customer service in grocery store,
cleaning homes/apt for a few folks.
So I filled out applications and got
a bite in one of the Banks here in
Baton Rouge. While doing that I
prayed that if I could just get a
ticket back to B.R. in banking then
that would be His will and not mine.
I did get the job and my husband and
I separated. Banking had changed a bit
since I was a teller back in the early 80's
so I didn't grasp the computer as quickly
as they wanted me, and thus was let go.
Yes, I did understand and accepted what
had happened because the bank job was
merely my golden ticket to return to
B.R. where I had aways wanted to be.
Again I did my footwork trying to find
a job to support me now that I was going
thru a divorse. Then in talking to another
member in recovery about my situation,
it was suggested that I check out a local
bakery looking to hire.
Sure enough I went and yes I got the
job in customer service. Whew....!!!!
Eventually I remarried 6 yrs now and
also retired with my husband.
I looked at all the delicious foods
on the menu and they look awesome
and tempting. I hope you settle in
comfortably there where it seems
like home for you to enjoy each day.
in our lives for some sort of reason
whether we like them or not.
I am from Baton Rouge, my hometown,
but at about 6 or 7 yrs sober my little
family, husband and 2 little ones made
a move to Houston to give our kids more
options in education and opportunities
in life.
Me, I never wanted to go, but I prayed
in the beginning to my HP Higher Power
that I would leave everything I had to
follow Him where He would want me to
be. So off to Houston I went.
I continued on my recovery path
being a mom and wife, working a
few odd jobs as the rest of the family
grew and matured in their life. Me,
all I wanted was to return to my home
in Baton Rouge and had no idea how
I would do.
We were in a 25yr marriage and in
my heart I wasn't happy so I began
doing my footwork by reaching into
my past at those jobs I had before and
after my little family.
Department store retail, bank teller,
customer service in grocery store,
cleaning homes/apt for a few folks.
So I filled out applications and got
a bite in one of the Banks here in
Baton Rouge. While doing that I
prayed that if I could just get a
ticket back to B.R. in banking then
that would be His will and not mine.
I did get the job and my husband and
I separated. Banking had changed a bit
since I was a teller back in the early 80's
so I didn't grasp the computer as quickly
as they wanted me, and thus was let go.
Yes, I did understand and accepted what
had happened because the bank job was
merely my golden ticket to return to
B.R. where I had aways wanted to be.
Again I did my footwork trying to find
a job to support me now that I was going
thru a divorse. Then in talking to another
member in recovery about my situation,
it was suggested that I check out a local
bakery looking to hire.
Sure enough I went and yes I got the
job in customer service. Whew....!!!!
Eventually I remarried 6 yrs now and
also retired with my husband.
I looked at all the delicious foods
on the menu and they look awesome
and tempting. I hope you settle in
comfortably there where it seems
like home for you to enjoy each day.
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Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: USA
Posts: 2,393
Originally Posted by Kboys 
When I read the title of this, I thought it was going to be a metaphoric post about going back to the bakery for bread, instead of to the hardware store....
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Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Midwest
Posts: 11,481
I just want to thank each and every one of you who has posted here. I've been enjoying a lovely summer day, sunny and warm w/o being humid or sticky. I've got some Ben and Jerry's for my dessert this evening and my little dog children are keeping me company.
I'm slowly learning to silence that little voice in my head that says "don't feel TOO good; you'll jinx yourself if you feel too happy!" and learning to enjoy feeling good when it happens.
Right now I am feeling very good--hopeful, joyous, and standing firmly on the good solid earth. A far cry from where I was last year, and even farther from where I was 3 years ago.
I'm slowly learning to silence that little voice in my head that says "don't feel TOO good; you'll jinx yourself if you feel too happy!" and learning to enjoy feeling good when it happens.
Right now I am feeling very good--hopeful, joyous, and standing firmly on the good solid earth. A far cry from where I was last year, and even farther from where I was 3 years ago.
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Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Blue Ridge Mountains
Posts: 816
What a great success story! Love it. So happy for you.
Funny you would mention about things you say to yourself when
you are feeling really happy- its something I was thinking about the
other day & now think it is another facet of recovery-another
"unfamiliar" feeling somewhat. But, oh joy! I'll learn to live with
it ;D
Funny you would mention about things you say to yourself when
you are feeling really happy- its something I was thinking about the
other day & now think it is another facet of recovery-another
"unfamiliar" feeling somewhat. But, oh joy! I'll learn to live with
it ;D
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