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It is hard being on the road over 200 nights a year...away from your family, isolated in many ways. It definitely isn't for everyone. This blogs represents the thoughts of just one such person. Read along and find out if the road is for you.
This is my new blogchalk:
United States, Georgia, Gainesville, Unity of Gainesville, English, John, Male, reading, RE Investing. :)
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Tuesday, April 13, 2004
If you can't tell your friends secrets, then what kind of life are you leading?
I heard that being said on a movie the other night and gave it some real thought. And you know what? That is right!
Of course there are different types of secrets that you share with different friends...
- Work related secrets - the type of things that you only share with really close work friends. What type of things you ask? What your true thoughts about the boss/company are, what your plans are both long and short term, the reasons why some folks at Da Company are getting where they are getting, etc. I only have a couple of folks at Da Company that I can share those things with. And Julie never really gets involved with 95% of those secrets.
- Relationship secrets - These you usually only limit to one or two. In my case, I have one friend who I have known for 20 years that I can literally tell anything to. And another close friend at work who has a similar situation to mine and we share secrets with each other.
- Secret thoughts - these are the juicest of secrets that you can only share with one person...usually your spouse (which is true in my case) These are the ones where you diss folks, rag them out and then smile to them and tell them how nice they are the next time you meet them. These secrets are also the ones that gnaw at you the most.
I have been sharing some secrets with a few folks recently. But the one I really haven't shared with anyone is that I am giving serious consideration to quitting Da Company. I got some money saved, some real estate to bring in some do re me and have been really thinking about the Coffee House again.
If I could get someone to put up 15K more, I would be done tomorrow. But like I said, I might do it sooner rather than later.
The reason I haven't spoke about it is I am not sure I am going to do it, but more importantly, I really don't want to talk about it all that much. But on the other hand, now that I wrote this, maybe I am.
Getting off the road would be good. Da Company doesn't seem to offer much in the way of opportunity, so that may be the ultimate decision maker.
Stay tuned.
Blog on!
posted by John Panico at 9:49 PM
Sunday, April 11, 2004
Trying to live under the radar...
There are several reasons I haven't blogged much in the last few weeks: They are as follows (in no particular order):
- The Schedule - I have worked several weekends for Da Company (no, they really don't appreciate the efforts) and that has taken up a significant amount of time. In addition, even when I plotted out some time, a problem customer would suddenly arise like a phoenix and suck it up. This happened with 2 cusotmers. Da Company's response? Do whatever you have to do to make them happy (In other words, use your time to make other folks problems right)
- Church - The demands have been great there too. It all culminated on March 28th when they had their big celebration/ordination ceremony. I bought the LCD projector, made arrangements to get it installed, and in my free time, created 5 power point presentations choreographed to music.
- Personal - I am not complaining about this time spent, but it just added to time that I needed to spend with Julie that I didn't really have. To her credit, she has been (and always is) my biggest/best supporter. We spent the last week in San Francisco together and it was awesome...complete with bay dinner/dancing cruise and other fun things. It was good to spend some time with her without other obiligations getting in the way.
- Business - One house fell through (I probably helped it along when I became stubborn, but hey, I was tired and didn't want to argue a $400 point) and I have come up for air. I am now refreshed and ready to hit the wealth building road again.
- Career - Da Company acquired another company last week. And one of the folks got an "instant" position in my opinion. That is a total disregard for folks here who have put in the time. Two - three more houses and I can think about my options. Which I am giving serious consideration to at this very moment.
I could fill you in with the blow by blow boring stuff, but suffice to say, that Da Boss and I have had our moments and I am most thrilled that March is now behind me.
I will get back to blogging, but still have some things that I am working on that have to remain under the radar.
Blog on!
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