Alright everybody, As most of you know I retired from nursing last year about this time, before that every six or seven years I took a break for about a year from nursing to do something else, usually in some sort of sales (still helping people) to re-focus, usually going back to nursing, last year, after 20 years, I decided, I wanted a change, I will always have nursing in my heart, but the changes in healthcare are just not for me and my heart was no longer in it was time. I found myself, finding a new passion. Those who know me well, know that I am what some call a tom-boy I enjoy cars, motorcycles, grease, dirt, but dont get me wrong, I wear make-up doing it! I started working for Car-x Automotive a year, knowing very little, the basics, it was really a challenge from my husband, he knew I could sell anything and we have our differences, but he believed I was smarter than anyone else they had hired as managers and that I could do it. So, with the managers and technicians, even some parts-houses thinking I wasnt going to make it, I set out to learn everything I could about the auto repair business and industry itself. I become one of the top sales advisors and managers and worked hard, I found myself and I enjoyed the heck out myself, September 27 the owner sent out an email that I did not agree with, I will just give you one word that was in the email. MANager describing why an individual was succeeding. September 29, I was no longer employeed for questionable reasons. At first I was so angry that my integrity was questioned, that I just wanted to fight back, and I could have caused a lot of havoc for them, still can. Do I feel this way now? Well, I found, that this has given me the opportunity to search myself, was what they did right? No, absolutely not. My husband and son-in-law still are employees of this company, they are good and loyal employees as I was, do I want to cause any problems for them? Again, no, absolutely not. Now, Car-x has one less good and loyal employee, their customer count and reviews for the shop that I ran have dropped as well the sales, they continue to have a district manager, who might I add has less managerial experience than me, (by 15 years) and only 2 years more automotive experience, that has handled situations with documented less than professional behavior. I have learned so much from this employement and I am grateful for the experience because I have a new focus and a I feel more alive than I have in years. For so long, this last year I have had so many trials in my life, illness, emotional, financial, but the good Lord gives you trials to bring out the best of you and I think He knew that I have been surviving but not truly living for almost a third of my life. I have been in and out of school trying to finish, I have been just here, but as you can tell by my long(and probably boring to most of you) post I am living with a vengeance now. After much research and deleberation I have enrolled in DeVry University and have been accepted to the Bachelor of Science Business Management focus on Sales and Marketing, I started my first term on October 28, 2013. Why I am telling you all this? Because I want to share my life, my risks, my rewards and my failures. I am not ashamed to say I have failed to finish so many times in the past and this is not my first attempt. But this is my first attempt that I am not afraid. After all, I know where I am going, I know how to get there and I know now there is nothing I can not do. So, thank you Car-x for showing what I can do, what I want to be, how not to do it, and giving me the strength to do it. Today Novemember 2, I working on my first research paper for Business 115, so I will see you on my breaks!! Have a great weekend everybody!!!
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 17:20:53 +0000
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