Here We Go Again
I have not been blogging lately and it was due to the fact that I had been struggling with darkness in my life and my blogs when I have some depressed feelings are too dark to read. Very simple, I did not share the pain, you did nothing to deserve any of that stuff. But, this week I am in Northern Virginia starting a new job in a converting plant that takes giant rolls of tissue and towel and cuts them to size and packages them for distribution in your local stores. I will be a Base Paper Engineer and be involved with product development, manufacturing trouble shooting and most importantly, interfacing with the roll producers to get the best product into the plant. So my career path now veers back into manufacturing after a 26 year stroll through the supplier forest. All the technical information that I have gathered over the decades will come to play in the new role and also people skills will definitely be challenged. Converting is stressful...