its so funny working in an Old School CompanyTM, the old mom N pop luxury shop, because for several of us we’re setting up to have our whole careers here, and a lot of the more seniors workers are elderly and the company just went through a big hiring phase, which saw my hiring as well as several other young people, and now the cards are falling that we’re each being mentored by a senior member of the staff and you can see the next gen being set up. We’re all becoming friends outside of work as well, it’s tempting to see a little window open into the future all laid up, in five to ten years when all our mentors have retired and we’re the ones old and in charge. It’s gonna b so weird.
If we really do spend our whole lives working in this small factory, living in this small village, hanging out and hiking in the weekends, it's gonna be so wild and so so good to see all my friends faces older, be there for their kids birthdays, build a life together out here hidden away, support each other, build community, networks.
It'll also be like oh this old fucker? Weve known each other since our twenties! And as someone who's always been passing through places, never there for long, all I want now is to stay.
To stay with places, to stay with people.