LONG TRIP AHEAD. . .
What a week this has been. My son was here last week and he left on Saturday. Now, the big news is the terrible shooting massacre at Virgina Tech college. Now I'm sitting here in the airport on a low battery (pos laptop) and typing furiously to try and get this entry hammered out before I get on a plane on my way to Portland for my trip. My sidekick Steve is already out in Portland, having taken the early flight out. Being a night owl, I opted for the late flight. I can sleep or read, whatever. Three and some hours to kill – f u n
Today is the day after the massacre at VT, and now the names are being released of the 33 people who were killed. What a sad and depressing day for a LOT of people. I can't imagine sending my son of to college, never to have him return. Guess they're having a hard time finding out information about the shooter as well. He was a pretty big loner and had a lot of issues he was probably dealing with, In one of his classes, he refused to say “hi” to anybody, and simply signed in with a “?” instead of his name. His creative writing professors also mentioned his writing was rather disturbing. So much so, they referred him to counseling. This story is going to have a ton of legs and will probably dominate the headlines for some time. Read all about it here
Anyways, what else is new? Not much, my son came and went in a flash, It's like I always say, it goes by way too fast. My job has been rather taxing as of late. I'm the point person for this new AM training program the director requested. I wanted the program to be for all incoming AM's, as opposed to all of the existing account managers like the director wants. This last week was pre-testing for the first module and it was a bit rocky. Some people can really get on my nerves and I have no idea how Jon keeps a level head dealing with these people. It seems like no matter what, they're never happy. One woman is married and I don't like her – she bugs. She always has a chip on her shoulder and no matter what I do and try and accommodate her, its just not good enough. Oh well, she can STFU and FO for all I care. Other than some really minor push back, things finally went a lot smoother. This next week (April 23rd) is the start of normal training. It will be nice to not be so responsible for so much because I didn't get much done last week, which sucks. If I didn't have the training program to take of, I'd probably be around 60K in renewals. I'm still closing in on 40, so it's all good. I figure if I can book a half million in renewals, get my star and pull this training program off, I'm in for some major bonus points with Pat our director.
More later. . . .
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