At this point in my life, my daughter Olivia is now almost 15 months old, and is walking and talking (sporadic words here and there, not sentences). I was working a lot, trying to provide for my family, and was finding it hard to brew as regularly as I used to.
Nonetheless, I've been making efforts to try to turn Mr. Rufus Brewing Company into a reality while I worked a retail schedule. That is to say, a schedule that was as far from regular as it could get.
While I still want to make my dream of owning/operating a professional brewery a reality, life had a funny way of guiding me in that direction. Last week, I started a new job that has a regular Monday through Friday schedule. And this is my office...
Ladies and gentlemen, I am now the assistant brewer at a local microbrewery! It's called Wop's Hops, in Sanford, FL and they have been around for almost 2 years. It's running a 3-bbl system and has a taproom and beer garden, and now just a couple weeks ago opened a kitchen to serve food.
Needless to say, I'm beyond excited to have landed this new job that will be my career and the experience gained here will be immeasurable. While, of course, I must put plans for MRBC on hold (whether temporarily or permanently), I'm just glad that I'm in a point in my life where I feel like I'm actually doing something worthwhile. Something that feels like I'm not actually working, but living a dream. Not to mention that I can finally spend weekends with my wife and daughter!
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