rambling

Initially i started this blog as a way to vent so that Patty didn't have to take the brunt of the garbage i usually can home and talked about. It's been a while and i realize that it did not work very well. Most of the time when i get home from work she still has to listen to the garbage and it does not go here as intended. So i would like to officially appologize, and thank my lovely wife for putting up with all the crap. That said, in my last post i did manage to complain and it felt good to get it out. However, i do not want to give the wrong impression that my new job is all bad. It has it's good days and some days that are not so good, but overall it is a massive improvement over what i left behind. I am in a position to be the captain of my own future. I have a lot of freedoms that were not afforded to me in the last position i held, and the whole thing is a blank slate for me to fill.
On a personal note, i am living in the new house and it is a massive improvemtent from the apartment. Most of the projects are either complete or under way and soon to be completed. Patty and Aimee will be joining me in 2 weeks and that is cause for celebration. I can not wait to have my family back together. They came to visit me last weekend and even though there was a bunch of work that had to be done, i really enjoyed the visit. I don't think they know just how much they mean to me or how much i miss them when they are not around. Just like Patty, moving has been hard for me. I miss the friends we have made over the last 8 years in Cincinnati, and the ward family is going to be missed very much. Steubenville has a very different pace of life to it, it is much slower and is taking a lot to get used to. although they do have the big city driving mentallity. Over all, life is good, God is great, and things are lookin up.

It's starting all over again

   As most of you know i have started a new job in Steubenville, Oh. I am opening a new office for a new company, as with most new openings it is a challenging time, made worse by the fact it is a new town for me and i know nobody in the area, whice means i know no clients either. All of this is made worse by the fact i have to spend a lot of time away from my family.
   In my last job my employer and i did not see things eye to eye. He wanted me to be a full time sales person and i was hired for remediation and doing spills. So we constantly argued about sales. Well when i interviewed for this position i told them if they wanted a sales person, i was not the person for the job. His response was they did not believe in seller doers. I thought that was great and accepted the job. Well now 2 months into the job i get a call from the bosses boss and am told i need to focus all my attention to doing sales. Now you have to keep in mind that (not trying to be concided) when i get into see someone i can sell snow to an eskimo, but i can not do cold calls or appointment setting to save my life. My question is this, does anybody understand the old addage that a mans word is his bond? What happened to truth and integrity? I don't want to sound like i am venting and bad mouthing my new employer, i just want at least 1 employer to keep their word. I truely love the work i do but i absolutly HATE doing sales, the cold calls and appointment setting anyways.