Moving back up the rungs of the ladder.

Step by step and rung by rung, I am slowly getting back to where I was career-wise when I left Ireland to come to the U.S.
Back then when I left I was quite happy designing for the packaging industry and working alongside a lot of you all. When I did come over it was not immediately easy to get back to this business and restrictions placed upon me over here was such that I could not seek any kind of employment until I received authorization from the government and got my social security card. This was over a period of 6 months and in this environment it was hard to find the exact type of work I specialized in. It became apparent that I would have to take whatever work came my way and I got a placement at a local mailing facility. (This subject matter has reminded me about that time and I will write more about the tales of this period in future posts.)

This lasted for exactly a year and for a time I was moved on by the agency to a furniture receiving place, the agency knew I was not too excited about this place and thankfully one of the ladies found me a position with a packaging company. This was the first sign that I was getting back to where I had been. However it had taken 18 months and this packaging position was not in designing, it was warehouse and product line work. I enjoyed it though as the manager knew of my previous experience and held me in some regard. As such I did get some different and interesting assignments (again perhaps a story for later). I was at this place for maybe 6 weeks and that was when I got perhaps my best break yet. A position to run the sample table with a large company and that is where I have been now for what in March will be 2 years.

So after 2 years I am now doing some semi-design work and getting back to where I was...slowly but surely. Which brings me to my news....something which had been in the pipeline for a while. The company have been trying to get someone in to take my place so I can design and now it seems like it may be happening. It will be part-time and that was the reason why it was taking some time to come to pass, but its another step. Another step back up the ladder. Another step back to designing.