My somewhat estranged father

has found a new job!

Published on August 16, 2004 By Melinda Stanners In Home & Family

This is great, because since selling his photography studio last year he's just drifted from one crappy job to another. FINALLY he's landed, and he seems pretty happy about it.

I'm glad that he's found a new place to settle, because there's something satisfying about imagining my father wearing a tie and going to an office and working with people that he likes at a company that he's revved about. And I like to think of my father being semi normal!

Apart from his music, I haven't seen him this enthusiastic about anything. Well, his email was enthusiastic, anyway. He lives in another country, so the advent of email was a great thing for our distanced relationship.

He started out in retail when I was a baby, buying stuff for one of the largest chain superstores in New Zealand. All that time he complained about how photography was what he really wanted to do, and he went out every so often with a gang of photographers to take pictures. Anyway, after the separation he decided to open a photography studio, and he built it up from the ground (literally! I used to help when he and his friend were renovating!). This went great guns for years, and then last year he decided to sell up, come and visit me for my 21st, and start on something new.

He took up menial tasks when he returned, and had large plans about starting at the bottom in an up-and-coming company and rising rapidly to the top. To be honest I didn't hold out much hope that he'd settle for anything after the autonomy of owning his own business, but he seems really happy to be working in a team again. I guess there's only so much freedom a person can take.

For no reason at all I wanted to share my joy

He's Client Services Coordinator, and his company just hopped onto the stock market. He says:

SDL (Solution Dynamics Ltd) is a data management company, that has 4 divisions, about 70 staff, a good attitude and are racing forward and leaping over competitors in a single bound, eating them whole and spitting out the bones.
I work for the Comit division and we co-ordinate a factory that runs machines that fold and stuuf things into envelopes. WOW I hear you say, - but we put thru about 50,000,000 letters a year (in rain, hail and snow) and deal with clients with lots (maybe 20,00 to 100,000) of customers.(Electricity and power companies, local council and major public companies thru the stock exchange etc) Try licking 30,000 or so envelopes and stick stamps and you'll soon see why we're so popular.

Forgive me for sounding like the doting daughter, but I feel like my father has really grown up over the past ten years since we left NZ. This could be a really good thing for him.

And it would be nice if he could donate some money to the 'replace Melinda's 1982 rust-bucket sigma' fund too

but that's beside the point.

Yay!

Comments

mignuna

on Aug 18, 2004

well done on getting your dad trained, melinda

good luck with the car !

vanessa/mig XX

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