Sunday, March 2, 2008

An Evaluation, and Future Expectations

So its the first week of march, 67 days after Christmas(The day after I stopped selling christmas trees). I spent an average of 12 hours a day selling Christmas trees for 28 days. Some days I put in 14, 15, 16 hour days. Granted I wanted too and I was going to reap all the benefits of the work. I did everything from the book keeping to the building of the display and signs, to tying the tree on the customers car. To make a long story short, I worked my butt off for the better part of, the coldest part of winter while heating a 5,000 square foot green house and managing to manage my time, be an accountant, a marketer, a business man, a laborer, a sales man, and me. And to top it off right in the middle of it I managed to stick my fingers in a fan and get them mangled, good thing I heal fast.
Anyways after all that, I decided it was finally time to go back to school. I said to myself, alright I have had enough of this "hard" work. Anyone who works in most blue collar, or trade will tell you that it is hard on your body. So I asked myself what type of knowledge will I be able to add and apply to what I am doing. Just so happens that the force of nature, some might call it god, put my best friend in front of me, who already had that figured out. He had found two classes that he wanted to take, Principles of Marketing and Management. So I started my formal education again. This time I have been a little more successful than before. Which leads me to the point of this blog, which is to evaluate how much I have learned and How I have applied it to my work, my life. I also want to include future expectations, goals, objectives, and plans.

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