After 37 years, every once an awhile you look back and reminisce about what you've gotten really good at, but don't care to admit to anyone.
Five Things I Hate & Love About My Copier Career
1) Over the years, I've become an expert at adding, subtracting and multiplying tenths, hundredths, thousandths and ten thousandths in my head. At times, I find my self spewing the correct math calculation and then wondering how I did that so quick. Guess, that's why memorize our multiplication times tables in grammar school.
2) Why.....such a little word, right? From time to time my wife will tell me, if you ask why one more time I'm going to ......... . That three letter word has grown on me over the years and I'll bring it out on every appointment. After years and years of using the Why word with appointments, I find myself using the Why word too many times in normal conversations. Yes, people have told me that I'm annoying at times.
3) I'm a fracking walking, talking road map for the State of New Jersey. Who needs mapquest (so nineties) or google maps? Not me. There's no possible way I could ever get lost in New Jersey. Wow, now that's really something to crow about!
4) I've become a contrarian salesperson. Everything is questioned, nothing is absolute, and doing the opposite of what most salespeople do is fine by me. If you're just like every other salesperson, then you'll be treated like all of the other salespeople (The Contrarian Salesperson).
5) Junior High School, age 14 or 15, uneasy, and zero self confidence made me take Zero's for oral reports, and I was ok with that! Today, I find my self yearning for more chances to share my knowledge in front of others. Years and years of telephone and in person rejections has turned me into a fearless speaker in person or via the telephone.
You've probably guessed that I've kept this somewhat light hearted. Actually, there's probably not much that I would change about my career in the copier industry. What I can tell you, is that my career is not even close to ending and I'm hoping for another twenty awesome years in the crazy ass business.
-=Good Selling=-
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