From now on

Photoshop fun with a photo I took last Monday while a new well was drilled at the camp.

After being busy like bees all summer long, it was time, last Saturday, for all the camp's employees to take a well worth break and a plunge in a friendly staff cocktail party. Of course many of them were buzzed by the alcohol drank during the evening but the ambience stayed polite and it didn't became a wasps' nest. I was a bit afraid that a few of them would take advantage of the occasion to sting their unappreciated co-workers because their has been many tensions in the hive during the season, but it all floated smoothly.

Although, even if a swarm of employees has left the camp already, the season is not over yet. There will be many other vacationers flying in in the upcoming weeks but it won't be as intense as it has been in the high season.

So now, it's back to work for the off-season until october when the camp will hibernate.

I'm taking a small pause tonight to write these lines. I have been working since Monday of last week. I also have spent my first nights sleeping at the camp.

Yes, it has really begin. The employees are hired and have started working for real. I have arrived at the camp last Friday to open the water system for every buildings. It wasn't a piece of cake since many pipes were broken because they froze during winter. By chance I had a plumber with me who was as competent as gentleman so we have worked hard but everything was done.

And Monday it was the first day for the majority of my new employees and, without bragging, I have to say that I am really pride of myself. For the first time in my professional life, I had the opportunity to make things my own way and this is what I did. I told them what I want from them, how I would like the working ambience to be and what I was willing to give them in return. It seems that the current has passed because today I had a happy working team giving more than I was expected. I'm proud because I have present my vision of work to them and I believe that this vision can be viable and can satisfy the employees as much as the direction. That being said, I wouldn't have been able to deliver the speech I have delivered a few years ago. You can't buy experience...

Our first clients will only arrived on the 28th of May but before that, we have to put the camp into shape. And on the 16th, we have a big three days group chore where many volunteers will come to help us. It's a lot of organization and by experience, these events can quickly become hard to managed and deceiving for the participants and the organizers, so without putting to much pressure on my head, I will try to organized a super group chore where everyone will be happy and a lot of work will be done. Without putting to much pressure on my head, I said...

Hey! This project 52 really work, I only sat in front of my laptop to post this week photo and here I am blathering about my job again. To bad my photos aren't as great as I would wish they would be. Maybe if I would take as much photos as I was taking when I did my 365 project, the quality would increase. Maybe this summer, when a routine will settle and I will find the way to find more times to do some personal stuff, the results will be better.. Until then, here's my 6th week photo: 3 Canadian geese migrating back to the northern lands. A sure sign that spring has really arrived...