Working for a Living?

I just got back today from a two and a half day seminar for my current sales job.  Call it brainwashing if you want, but I feel like I can make a real difference in people’s lives with what I am doing.  I work for a major home fire and security company, and I realized [...]

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Family Tour

Whirlwind!
 
That’s the word to describe this weekend.
Easter Weekend was a torrent of family affairs.  Saturday my grandmother, sister, parents and uncle all came to our house for the day.  This was a little more stressful than most.  Beside my grandmother, and sister, we had no idea anyone else was coming until Thursday.  So the planning [...]

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OK

I know, I said I would write more, and I haven’t.  So, I write now with way too much in my head.
I got a job.  It is not the one I wanted, or even one that I thought I would like doing, but so far it has been good.  I have some freedom and latitude [...]

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Magellan

What a great name.
I tried without any level of success to get my wife to name our children after this explorer.  Yes both the boy and the girl.  I figured that it was a stately name with a huge amount historical significance.  But it did not catch on.  So, now I implore anyone having a [...]

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HELP WANTED–Applied Within

OK, so, I am back in the beautiful Central VA.  I’ve taken a couple of days off and now I am ready to return to the keyboard and try and put some sense back into my world.

I find myself pretty much right where I left off at the beginning of December when I left to [...]

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Going Home

That’s right listeners, I am going home!!!

I fly out Saturday AM.  I got the call tonight that Friday would be my last day on the assignment, and Saturday would be my paid travel day, sweet, I guess.
This assignment has been a learning experience on so many levels.  I had never been a consultant, a representative, [...]

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