The suit was mandatory, so were the gold pens. All the reps would stand against a wall, hidden from sight and when you were called to pick up your couple you went fast, 5-10 seconds pass and you didnt come around the wall you were gone. I had a few minutes so i went to the restroom and prayed to god....if this is for me please help me, if it is not lets get it over with....please. My couple turned to me after the slideshow and podium speaker was finished
and said we have a few questions. I didnt do what what i was supposed to (training) i just said
see that guy there.. he is one of the owners, if i call him and you are not sincerely interested
i will be in hot water, not you , me. and its ok not to be interested but i dont want to call him if
you are not taking this at face value...oh no we are -call him! Not too much time went by and they are be being announced as new owners! clap-clap-! Cloud nine has many descriptions,
this was one of them. 1 for 1 !! And i was halfway across the progress chart during the sales meeting as it was a large sale. Halfway thru the month and on my first day im in the top 5!!!
A week later (i fit in fine) Mr. e calls me to his penthouse--you are going to Spain. You will meet up with__ and both of you will start a brokerage in Malaga. Im not sure of that i offered--i really dont know anything. Im sending you to every office on a whirlwind tour and youll learn as you go.
Im given many airline tickets stapled together Hilo-maui-l.a.-tahoe-reno-Las vegas-mexico city-acapulco-spain. Now look what youve gotten us into ollie!! We will meet in vegas for the
I.I. convention. I.I. was still new- i think that convention was the 2nd or 3rd. Im really worried,
i dont care how enthusiastic one can be with an opportunity but i really didnt know anything.
Those tickets were bought before the offer so how can someone have more faith in you than yourself? A normal guy would be drooling at this chance and so what if failure was the outcome,
look at the destinations and first class hotels if it doesnt work out, but i was above that- i wanted
the chance to prove myself wrong. Mr E had already sent out teams to many resorts worldwide
to set up shop and i met them all- helping them with logistics all the way to the airport to see them off. So i knew a few things anyway. One of the teams was a married couple and suffered
a very bad car wreck in europe. Some vanished. I would hand over $20,000 from mr.e to each one to get started, and when they ran out of that and had no sales they would vanish, i dont think you could call up and say-- need another $20,000!!
I had heard the term before and now fully understood what it meant to burn your bridges.
The idea is you cant come back so you have to make good your forward move. So i started selling everything. I had 2 cars a motorcycle and a place full of antiques. Of all the things i had i didnt want to sell but i had to-- i had a locked room no one was allowed into. I never sold anything
egyptian i just collected it -hand tinted early photos-statues-bronzes-tables-even a 5 foot replica
of king tut. (there were 151 dynasties in the 3 classical periods ok? so dont get cute with the tut stuff) sometimes to impress others i would let visitors get a glimpse at night with strategicaly
placed lamps ,egyptian of course, and incense burner bronzes suspended from the ceiling---quite eerie i must add, shadowy figures-barely perceptible outlines of mummies and statuettes. Now
that i look back, no wonder i didnt have great sex-the chicks would be looking off to the side door
wondering what was going to creep out! Anyway about 300 items collected and this lady dealer
was panicked because i wasnt going to let anybody cherry pick the lot -all or nothing- she showed up 3 times that day until she got a bank loan later and bought it all. I have a few things in a
safety deposit box, and i call a serious friend (he found a small treasure in the gulf) and we used
to do jewelry shows together. We go down to the vault and i told him- one price -not a penny
less or more- just one chance say the price, no haggling you are the only person to see this and if you dont buy it all i will leave the box in the bank and come back some day. He was over my price so done deal. By the way, years later, his girlfriend was in the L.A. times with one of the first cases ever to go to court over stored sperm, i believe he had died..nice guy anyway.
I pick
the paper in the morning and front page "ALL FOREIGN SERVICE EMPLOYEES-HELD HOSTAGE-IRAN) i am not a chicken but i am also above being cannon fodder and felt i made the right choice. About 20 years later i met a lady who was in the the know and told me details
of what really happened there-they knew it was going down and were ignored and what those
foreign service people went thru is indescribable..some are still in mental homes. Everybody thinks the hostages were released later and dont know the truth.(IRAN-CONTRA SCANDAL)
In addition you should read the book detailing the failed helicopter rescue by the man who organized it--very sad items come out here. Sanitized news conforms to the big picture and your insignificant life is just that. im wondering if any of those poor souls have a black star on the vermont granite at langley.
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