Feed the Beasties!

I swear, there are so many times during the week where I just cannot believe I actually get paid to do this job...or can't believe the various tasks I must get done to keep the shop up and running. I have to tell someone about it!

To give you a little history of my time with the Paul Robinett Aromatherapy Candle Shop, I will start back in 2002 when I moved to Columbus with my husband, Nick. We moved into an apartment in the High-Buttles building above the candle shop in September 2002 and entered the Master's program at OSU's Department of Theatre. This was in a futile effort to make some sense of "What do I want to do with the rest of my life?" Throughout the two-year program, we visited the little candle shop off the lobby often, bringing family and friends there as they visited. One gallery hop (a big arts festival in our neighborhood the first Saturday of every month), the manager, Joe, asked me to help out with the register. I was hooked! The atmosphere, the customers, the smell(!) were all too intoxicating, and I knew I had to work there again!

Over the next few years, I subbed for people and helped during the busy Holidays, but it wasn't until Joe left the position of manager in January 2006 that Paul approched me and asked me to take over. When I stepped in as Operating Manager, I knew this job was for me. It fed every hungry beastie inside of me, including Anal Retentive Perfectionist, Artsy Creative Designer, Hardcore Organized Neatnick, and ADD Idea-Driven Delagator. But, instead of being satiated, they just wanted more!

So Paul hired me to organize his...life..., per se. I now run the Online Orders Department of his invention company, Renetto, as well as help manage his new-found YouTube celebrity. I also help keep him sane by taking various other organizational things off his plate. This supplies me with the most random 'To Do' list possible, and I love it!

So I wanted to share this for all of the people out there who don't fit into a major, or desk job, or category, because when people ask me "What do you do for a living?," I usually just smile and ask "What don't I do?" But I think now, I'm going to answer "I feed the beasties!"

And I want to show you how I do that.