Well, it is almost 9 AM and time to go to my job.  I have been a cheap auto insurance salesperson for a number of years now and I know it inside out.  I love the fact that I have the opportunity to help people get the best cheap car insurance rate possible and let them save some money too.

But I’ll be the first to admit that it wasn’t easy.  In fact, I think one of the hardest things that I had to do was go back to school.  Sure, the course to sell insurance wasn’t long, but it had been a long time since I had to study or crack open a textbook.  But, I was able to pass the test with flying colors, and therefore I am selling insurance to this day.

Today should be a little more interesting than most as I have an appointment with a client that is looking for classic car insurance - something that I haven’t sold in a long time.

I just started a new job at a store that rents just about everything.  Most of the stuff that is rented at the shop is pretty straight forward, and we do little but get the customer to sign the rental agreement, and send them on their way.  These are the easiest things that we do there, but there are other things that we rent that require a little more knowledge to do properly.

For example, the party tents, obstacle courses and inflatable slides are required to be setup on site.  We do this for the customer as both a service, and so that we ensure that there are no problems with them prior to the customer doing them.  Previously, we had let the customers set them up themselves, but we had a number of them damaged because of it.

So, today we learned how to setup the many items that we rent that require installation.  Though most of them were pretty easy to do, I had some problems with the party tent I was setting up.  Needless to say, I will be looking forward to setting up on site - it will be a nice break from the office.

For my last job  my company sent a team of people to get advanced training in Philadelphia and our company rented a Philadelphia car service for us. Since we all arrived at the same time on the same flight and there were about ten of us, the company sent out a mini coach instead of a limo.

It reminded me on the outside of a bus used by hotels and airports to shuttle people back and forth. I rode one of these from the Vegas airport into town to my hotel a couple years ago.

However, the cool part was that the inside was all partied out! It was custom on the inside with leather side seats and a mini bar and very fun lighting. The bosses felt we deserved some great treatment since we were top producers in our company. We were all really surprised but it didn’t end there. We had a driver of some sort ready every day to take us wherever we needed to go!

After my husband retired from the Army, he had difficulty finding work at a salary that wasn’t entry level. But we still had to eat, and our bank had this silly policy about wanting a mortgage payment from us every month.

A friend of ours was opening a door and window company that catered to contractors. He was sitting in his office wondering where he was going to find someone to handle the warehouse when the phone rang. My husband had gotten up the courage to ask if all the jobs had been filled. The rest is history.

In one week my husband was “fluent” in vinyl windows, atrium doors, sliding doors, you name it. As soon as we could afford it, we planned to replace our own windows. By the time that happened, however, my husband had another job and the company was sold. Still, he became the “go-to” person in our neighborhood on the subject of replacement windows. Knowledge is knowledge.

I remember all of the dreams I had about my future career when I was in school studying to become a registered nurse. I know that nothing ever pans out to be exactly what we think it will be when we have the big dreams, and things did turn out to be a lot different, but I can’t really say that I am disappointed with the way things have turned out for me.

When I finished school, I became part of a large medical community and thought things were a lot harder and a lot different than I imagined they would be, I was happy with the way my career was going. I had found myself a new family and we all had fun together. I made some really good friends and I got a lot of great job experience.

I am now a part of a much smaller office, but I think it is great as well. We are all very close and I am still really good friends with some of the doctors and nurses from my previous job. I can honestly say that I am very satisfied with my life.

I like to learn new things. This is one reason why I do not stay at a job for too long. I become easily bored and want to move onto something new. My family hates this about me, as they worry that I have no security, but I love that I have learned so many new and cool things by being this way.

I have just accepted a job with a solar company. I have always wanted to learn how to install solar panels and now I have the opportunity to learn this and to also get paid to learn it. I don’t know why anyone would discourage me from loving to learn.

In my last job, at the zoo, I learned how to take care of numerous types of animals and I take something special away from each and every job that I do. In that particular one, I learned a deep respect for animals and their habitats. There is nothing wrong with that.

I went to a French Immersion school from kindergarten through grade twelve and because of it, I am pretty fluent in the language. I decided that I was going to mix the two things I love, being French and traveling, and try to find a job in Europe.

I looked up a translation company London and sent in a resume and an application. It did not take long before I had someone call me and offer to pay my airfare there just to have an interview. Of course I said yes and I took a flight the very next day.

I was hired right away and I flew home and had only three weeks to pack all of my stuff and send it to London to my new flat. I am loving the job, loving my home and loving the whole experience. I can see me being here for many years, much to my mom’s dismay, but she will either have to get used to it or move here to be with me.

This past summer, I experience my very first street performance fair. It was wonderful and I am so flabbergasted at what kinds of lives some of these people must live. It would definitely have to be an exciting life, as going to “work” would never become tedious and boring.

All throughout the fair you could catch many fire jugglers and stiltwalkers. It was like they were just ordinary people and as if it was something that you would see every day. They talked to you like it was nothing at all and I was amazed at the confidence and talent that the exuded.

I often wonder what it takes to get into that kind of profession. I mean, do you just one day decide that you want to juggle with fire for a living? I am so glad that I went, even if it was to make me more aware of the different types of people in the world. Sometimes it is good to leave the little bubble that we call life.

To earn a little bit of extra money while I was in college I decided that I was going to become a tutor and offer essay help to first-year students who just could not figure things out on their own.  It was a good idea at the time, but I did not realize how time consuming it would be.

I have always enjoyed writing essays and in never have a lot of troubles with them, so I figured that I would be a natural teacher when it come to this.  But, I found that I was easily frustrated with students who just did not seem to get it.

I had one in particular to asked me for help with his philosophy essay and by the time we were through, I think I ended up writing his whole essay myself.  I also found, that I just did not have enough time to do my own work when I was spending so much time helping others.

I recently had the opportunity to have dinner with my boss.  I know that this might sound a little strange, but we were at a marketing conference and being his right hand man, I was there as well.  We were just having lunch during the lunch break from the conference.

My boss owns a number of self storage facilities, and I thought I could pick his brain as a self storage owner to see what to expect owning your own facility.  You see, I have the opportunity to purchase a facility at a good discount, and I have been really considering doing it.

He explained to me that when he started out, he was a little skeptical that it would work out, but everything worked out fine.  Investment wise, he felt that it was one of the best ones that he made in his life and told me I was making the right decision.

We went back to the conference and had a good day.  I think that I will buy the facility that is for sale - it sounds like a good investment for me.