While I may not have had a lot of luck with other things in life, I certainly consider myself lucky for the jobs I've been able to acquire over the years.

The past couple of months I've been working at a bakery just a few short blocks from where I live. While I won't be baking any pastries any time soon, I'm learning more about different cultural delicacies and how to function in a much more high paced environment than what I was used to.

Working for a small family business is something important to me. Both of my parents worked together to start and bring up a children's clothing company, and they still work in the small business realm by running a successful inn. It is something I value and something that I've grown up in. Having a previous background in a corporate setting, I had none of this. Questions had to be relayed through a handful of managers, everything was done by the book and not by efficiency, and I could not stand that god awful swag and polyester bowling shirt I had to wear. Instead of being proud of my hard work, I abhorred it. One can only live in a world of corporate, Made in China rock-and-roll for so long. We were constantly told "Dare to be an individual!" Just make sure you fall in line with everyone else.