Today is my last day at my old job.
I love the outdoors and the bush, but I'm a real city girl. I love dressing up and wearing high heels. I love sipping my Vida and buying my lunch at Woolies. I love being corporate.
After being unemployed for 4 months I got this job working at a company that does the administration for bananas. The biggest producer of bananas in the country, but still.
Bananas gets grown by farmers. Thus, I moved from being the corporate city girl to working with farmers and their wives on the farms.
No more Vida, but coffee made by the domestic while making the necessary comments about the new baby while helping the farm-wife with her Pastel.
No more high heels, but jeans and flat shoes.
We are only 3 people in the office, so by being the only girl, I was allocated the task of making coffee, shopping and photocopying. In my previous corporate life, I was made coffee and told someone else to do the photocopying.
In my previous corporate life your personal life was kept separate and strictly professional. In my new life the bosses wife and 4 kids arrived every day, bringing us treats and me playing with the 1year-old.
Getting used to this new job, new environment, new town and new life was hard. I felt like I didn't fit at all and I was missing my friends, not to mention the shops, markets and coffee shops that I left behind in Cape Town.
But now, 2 months later and standing on the verge of moving back to Cape Town to a VERY corporate company next to Cavendish with a Vida downstairs, I think I will miss it here.
I will miss wearing anything I want, the freedom, the coffee, the kids, the fact that it was chilled and the fact that I could make a difference. I was very unhappy in the beginning, but now I am sad to leave. Life is strange...
PS. And no, I haven't eaten a single banana since working here....
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