For Carl
Colorado seems to be only one of my stops along my career path, starting with my first job as a baby sitter (does helping my grandmother with chores for a dollar qualify?) I met so many different co-workers, some good, some bad, rarely extraordinary. Rarely, but they do exist. That didn't end in Colorado, it simply topped everything.
Working at the ranch had the magic of working with very unusual people. Not the kind of 9-5 colleagues. They didn't work at the ranch just for the sake of having a job, including CJ himself, but because the ranch offered the flexibility and diversity no ordinary job can offer. People working there needed the flexibility to support the non-material aspects of their life. I became one of them.
This was all possible under the reign of CJ. He provided a platform for the people to develop, even if it ment to drive them to the edge. He gathered all those different people together who otherwise would have never met.
With his imagination, spirit, creativity, strategic mind and the combined power of his employees, he created this unique business.
Do not mistake it for a playground or vacation. It's not easy to work at the ranch. It's tough, hard, challenging. But you went home each day, knowing exactly what you did, why and what for. Try that in big corporation!
Therefor Carl gets the
The Award for Best Boss
Why the German Maid? CJ took German lessons in school and knows a lot about German history. Well, he knows a lot about history in general, which makes me miss talking to him a lot.
I made the Dirndl out of an evening dress, cutting of a couple of inches. I bought some lace for the apron and the "blouse".
Besides, I just wanted to make sure he never forgets his German employee! For I will never forget my American boss who taught me so much, not only about Strategy and Marketing and to set the punctuation before the parenthesis.
Thank you, CJ!
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