Brenda directed me to the application form which I downloaded and began completing until I got to the direction “Attach resume or else application will not be considered.” I thought that this would be a showstopper because I had sworn that I would never again do a resume. (Remember? This was #6 on my reverse bucket list.) In the space below the resume request I scrawled in “37 years at Pax, owner of Buzzy’s Country Store.”
Evidently that was enough of a resume for them to consider and I was recently selected to become a member of the MetCom Board. As part of my indoc orientation, MetCom Director Dan Ichniowski provided me a thick orientation book that contains more water and sewer info than I ever thought was possible to cluge together in one place. Doing that “begin with the end in mind”approach, I went to the back of the orientation binder and found something that I thought was kind of cool.
In 2010 a task force led by Mary Lynn Stone and Joe Densford was established to look into MetCom’s structure and operations. They generated this Task Force Report of 2010 which pretty much tells you all you need and/or ever wanted to know about MetCom, how it began and how it continues to operate today. I smiled when I came upon their summary statement on page 26 of the report which included this paragraph.
Nice to see Buzzy mentioned and credited with being a factor in MetCom’s establishment. Makes me feel a little better about Brenda having talked me into this. As I told her however, she wouldn’t be the first women to have ever talked me into doing something that I later regretted! Stay tuned.