“Who do you want to be today, who do you want to be…?“,

Not the Oingo Boingo song, although it’s a great one, but just a thought that went through my head recently. It has to do with work, and community, and making just a little more effort,

One thing my company does well, Foster’s a sense of community and celebration and fun, when they can. There’s a culture of periodic, potluck events, seasonal, maybe 4 to 6 times a year,

As personnel have changed evolved overtime, there’s a few key people that have kept the torch burning, and then everyone else, many of them anyway seemed to rally,

Like this summer, there was a barbecue summer style theme, hot dogs, and hamburgers and sausages provided by the company, those key people I mentioned, leading with the organization and barbecue efforts, and others are supposed to bring side dishes, potluck style,

I almost didn’t, but then past years I have made a simple cabbage salad from a recipe. I got from a friend more than 30 years ago, it’s called hobo salad.

And so last minute as this potluck was coming together this summer barbecue themed fun fest at work, I made a spontaneous effort to put the salad together and add to the potluck table, so glad I did, so glad I did.

For some reason in recent years, I have been swept up more and more in the pressures and dynamics of working in Intl supply chain, some days it mostly consumes me.

And then I thought, “who do I wanna be? “, Somebody who is narrow, focused, to “busy“ to contribute, and participate even a little? I don’t want to be that person.

It took me less than 20 minutes. Taking a few minutes to branch out, get outside the normal routine and make a simple dish to share, while it makes all the difference in making my work life, balance, a little better.

All because of a simple cabbage salad

Good.