's 1 year anniversary working at The Great Canadian Soap Co.

[Guest guest]

Today celebrated his 1 year anniversary working at The Great

Canadian Soap Co. He loves his job. He has worked 5 hours/day, Monday

to Friday, since May 17th 2010. He'll likely soon work more hours in

a day because they are busy enough to need him and he does such good

work, whatever the task at hand.

I couldn't have invented a job as perfect as this one is for .

The work itself is as diverse as cutting soap, bottle feeding baby

goats, computer data entry, packaging mail orders, labeling products,

greeting customers and running the video presentation and on and on.

His co-workers are wonderful and quickly learned to accommodate his

communication issues and the rest of his autism. In fact, his autism

is an obvious strength in this job - his attention to detail,

appreciation of routine & repetition, focus on the task at hand, etc.

It's also just 5K from our doorstep. The odds of having a job that

close, even having a business that close, where we live in rural

Prince Island isn't high. Most businesses in our area (and

they aren't that close) are seasonal, based on tourism, fishing or

farming. While they do get a lot of tourist traffic, they operate

year round in the Shop and through the mail.

Last summer I was dropping off at work with my bike and he biked

home. In February he started running home. This daily running is

paying off now at his weekend passion - the PEI RoadRunner races. In

the last few weeks he's set Personal Best times in his 5K, 10K and 5

Mile distances. This past Saturday he dropped 3:25 off his 5 Mile

time, a time he set in 2008. The week before he ran a Personal Best

5K in 18:22. His 10K PB is now 40:03.

He is still anxious to get to work every morning, takes great pride

in all he does there, and loves watching his bank account climb as

his running times fall. Like I said, I couldn't have invented a

better job for him.

His employer, Em Zember, is to be commended for giving the

opportunity. She's certainly not sorry she did! But really, it is

*Opportunities* that we need more than anything.

I'm not going to plug their wonderful products here except to say -

they hand make natural Goat's Milk Soap. If you want real soap (not

the " Soap " sold in stores today) or if you want or need 100% Natural

soap & skincare products, with scents or unscented, check them out.

They do have products with " Fragrance Oils " but they also have 100%

natural varieties (scented with " Essential Oils " or unscented) of

everything they make.

If you want to see what they're all about, and/or if you want to

" support " a great employer, sign up from their newsletter (they have

monthly contests there to win products - this month's involves naming

the soon to arrive baby goats!), or " Like " their Facebook Page or

Follow their Tweets...

There's links at the bottom of 's blog post about his " One Year

Anniversary working at The Great Canadian Soap

Company "

http://therunman.blogspot.com/2011/05/one-year-anniversary-working-at-great.html

-jypsy

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