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Confessions of an Upholstery Fledgling: How Things Have Changed

By Tessa | Published: January 17, 2010
Changing jobs is always a big transition, especially when you go from an office job to physical trade work as an upholsterer. Now in my fourth month of work at Spruce, I feel very comfortable in the new environment and can look back on my old job with a sense of humor about how things [...]
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Confessions of an Upholstery Apprentice 1

By Tessa | Published: November 13, 2009
Tessa Cooper as her sugar paste self CONFESSION #1 So after six years of working in public relations, event planning and production, and finally advertising, I found myself not really liking the marketing world. Oddly, it took doing what my degree was in, advertising, to realizing this line of work was not for me. I [...]
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