Doing well

The learning curve is over I really feel optomistic my new career. I see outragious success. I love it.

New Job

My new job is everything I've always wanted and more. I work for a super company. I'm surrounded by intelligent, honest, and competent people. I sell the best product on the market. We are higher in price than the so called competition, but that's the challenge of being a salesman verses being an order taker. I get to do a good deal of marketing as well. I'm still in a learning curve, but it won't be long now. I just know this will be a super success. I thank the Lord every day for His tender mercies!

I'm back

After spending 6 months in a failed business and 5 months in the job search I landed a job. Oh! I'm back in business, this time we will kick but and take names.

Job Landing

If everything goes right tomorrow I should have landed a job. Not just a job but a great one that will help me further my career and be fun and rewarding. So I look forward to confirming the good news.

My Strong Suit

After reading this from Brian Tracy I'm convinced that I can do all that and have done all that.

Brian Tracy:

Competence Makes the Difference
Now according to Dunn and Bradstreet, 96 percent of businesses in America that fail, fail because of what is called "managerial incompetence". Managerial incompetence means that the people running the businesses don't know what they're doing. And here are the two critical areas of managerial incompetence that cause business failure.

First is sales and marketing. 48 percent of businesses that fail in America fail because the business cannot sell enough of its products or services. Very few businesses fail when they have high levels of sales and revenues coming in.

Control Your Costs
The second reason that businesses fail, 46 percent, is because of poor cost control. They may be selling enough on the front end, but they're losing so much on the back end that they go broke anyway. Sales and marketing, financing and cost control, both require experience. And if you're serious about becoming financially independent, you have to learn how to do both of these.

Put Luck On Your Side
You must learn the skills you need to be successful. Business success is not a matter of luck. Business success is a matter of application. It's a matter of ability. It's a matter of experience and skill and intelligence, and wonderfully enough, you can learn what you need to know to be successful. And you can start by learning through on-the-job training, which is called OJT. Most successful businesspeople become successful because they get all their training by working for someone else. (Been there done that got a Tee shirt)

Looking up

I have a couple of good potential jobs on the table. It's this waiting game that's killing me. I guess it will make me a better employee by appreciating what I have even more.

Networking 2006

How do we connect?

30 Second Elevator Speach

My name is Dave Rockey I am an expert in customer relations. I have 34 years experience in dealing with, managing, and selling to all levels, genders, social strata, etc. I can move easily among all people groups. My main strengths are common sense, team building, customer service and a varied background with a lot of transferable skills. Think of me as a Swiss Army knife. I have sales, management ,marketing and computer skills. I have a hunger for learning and growing. I am adaptable and teachable. I enjoy getting what I want by helping others get what they want. I only want to be a part of win-win situations.

Networking

I really need a network or I need help in establishing one. Invite me to your linked in by clicking on the sandwich board or go to my website and join our yahoo group!

Great Depression

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I hate this. I have never ever been out of work for more the 3 days. This is beginning to suck like a chest wound.

Christmas Bah Humbug

I really hate this unemployment at the holiday season. I thought it was bad enough when I worked like a dog in retail. But, I would give anything to be working right now. I 've gotta say this is really Bob Cratchet like. Merry Christmas.

Pajama Jobs

I've been stuck in this rut for three months. Searching the Internet for jobs sending my resume into the great vacuum called the Internet. My son seems to be stuck in the same situation. I really need to get out. But for the life of me I can't figure out how to start a network. They say start with everybody you come in contact with. Do you honestly think that people cutting my hair, bagging my groceries and scooping my french fries have great connections. Dude, get real. Maybe it's the guy behind the glass at the gas station -who incidentally looks like Mohammad Atta. Maybe its the hard working Mexicans I meet at 7-11 filling their coffee cups 1/2 full of the little creamers thinking their getting milk, then piling on relish and condiments on their hot dogs- evidently believing they're getting their veggies for the day. I attend a couple of career workshops and church. But that's about it. I got a couple of guy's to meet me a Starbucks once a week. I can't even get to know my neighbors. They drive into their garage then maybe stick their nose out to get the paper or mail and retreat like moles into their hovle. I guess we will continue to surf aimlessly. Hoping to connect out here somewhere. It seems such a waste. But, until I get some better idea's here I'm stuck.

The Times They are a Changin'

As I recall that song growing up I never would have thought how fast things would start to accelerate during my mid-life years. I think this is a good thing though it forces us to have to stay current and keeps our mind sharp.

I was perfectly happy in my perfect career path. I was selling classroom reading books to schools. I was the manager of a brand new branch office. The owners wanted total "hands-off." So I got to do it all. All I started with was 2 folding chairs and a phone sitting on a couple of phone books. I bought the equipment, hired and trained the staff, did all the marketing, and sales. Then as computers and technology became the backbone of the modern office. I had to learn all about how to use and maintain all that technology. It was fun and exciting. I thought I'd do this the rest of my life. I thought reading books in schools would be something that would ever end. However, with standardized testing, computers, other technology and a whole new generation of students and teachers the book business was getting tough.

So I decided to become proactive and look for a second half of my life career. I did 6 months of research and came up with the perfect franchise opportunity. Well at least I thought so. Well I funded it by using my 401k and had 6 months reserve. Well I won't go into detail here but after six months I had to get some income because this wasn't working at all. I thought with all my transferable skills I would have no trouble snagging a job until I could recoup and regroup. So that's when I awoke to the fact that after being out of the job market for 19 years it wasn't going to be that easy. So I am starting this blog to help me in that transition and also help and guide others down that new career adventure.