Hibernate Blog

There is nothing like a move to bring out the perfectionist in a person. The crew here at SaraBear is varied, with some people being very linear and organized and other of us being, well, more of the artistic and free form persuasion.

A softer, more feminine version of Felix and Oscar comes to mind.

Maybe a dash of Bosom Buddies without the drag aspect.

I am struggling to find a female comparison, sheepishly, all I can come up with is Sweet Valley High’s Elizabeth and Jessica which I’ll chalk up to being 9 months pregnant, rather than making a broad sweeping accusation that there are no great female buddy duos in entertainment history other than Thelma and Louise, which frankly wouldn’t be quite right.

We entered into this space with the idea that we would make the most of the raw space, reveling in the beautiful natural light and exposed brick. We were excited knowing that we are can-do girls, low maintenance, easy-to-please. We discovered though, that we wanted more. We put our hearts and souls into this business, pulling late hours, sending pre-dawn emails and studying market and consumer trends. Turns out when it comes to the place we work, we are perfectionists. How humbling it is to find you are decidedly high-maintenance, or, as I like to call it, “exacting.”

The last few weeks of transplanting from one office to another have seen us painting walls, overseeing the construction of new walls, navigating the installation of a server and new phone system and much more. Today as I answered emails and lunched on a divine salad with fresh baked bread from Rockhill Bakehouse a contractor worked to repair the work done the week before by one of his employees. I felt a bit rueful as I watched the owner of this telecommunications firm rewiring a phone jack and tidying wires, that was until he said, “Boy, Scott doesn’t do very great work, does he?”

Why is that it would take someone else declaring something bad before I felt justified in demanding something better? We unapologetically pursue perfection in the work that we do, but somehow when it’s a personal thing, a task being done by someone else, we hesitate. Is it so bad to know what you want and not be afraid to demand it?

What do you think?