It was an absolutely strenuous transition for myself and others when I took the job up here.

For one, there had never been a female managing this operation prior to myself and others taking the helm. It’s a pretty big business with offices nationwide but it’s also a fairly male dominated industry. So being a southern woman coming from all that sun and air conditioning system to a location with all dudes and all that chilly wasn’t self-explanatory. I have to say that the first Wintertide almost sent myself and others packing. Thankfully, the little location that I bought had recently undergone a heating and cooling component upgrade. If it hadn’t been for that charming gas furnace of mine, I don’t know I’d have had anything positive about that first winter. The reception I got that fall when I arrived was as chilly as the weather outside. There was no doubt that I was not the choice for the local crew in the office. What’s worse, the guy I beat out was still now working there and actively trying to undermine me. Then, it was just the office itself. The location was not all that nice and easily not conducive to myself and others getting my stuff done. I had to bring in a section gas furnace in order to just get hot enough at my desk just to work. But I persevered on that first Wintertide and did nothing but go from the central gas furnace at the beach house to work and back again. Eventually, before the Spring, things started to turn around and the office was beginning to thrive with people making bonuses. Plus, corporations rewarded that effort with zone controlled heating, ventilation and A/C for the office. That meant I could take my section gas furnace beach house with me.

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