A Week in the Life of.....

Monday, April 19:

8:39 am With my new JCrew flower shirt and not to forget my badge, I'm ready to face a Monday morning.

8:43 My daily 5 minutes walk to work. Most of the time, I leave the house around 5 minutes before 9 or even less and I still make it to 9am. Amazing.

8:45 We are so attached to our house so it's always hard to leave in the morning.

8:49 I keep my desk as clean and clear as possible and we are not allowed even to put any drinks or food around but definitely have sanitizer!

6:24 Can't wait to get home and show my honey some extraordinary news fr work.

So after all the complaints and frustrations at work, sometimes there's truth about a silver lining in every cloud. And I think this would be the story of my day today to start with this new project, Week in the Life by Ali Edwards. As you all know by now, I just started  this new job which I thought was familiar to me just to realize that there's more to it than meets the eye.  After two months tomorrow of being there on probationary period, I still have a lot and too much to grasp in even a year. I would say that this is the most difficult job I ever started so far since we are not just dealing with big bosses, competitors and suppliers, but we are dealing straight with different personalities of customers and sales reps like us. It's not just about selling for added bonus in our pockets but becoming our best personalities in most situations. The former could be developed in time but the latter though, says mostly about you in general and in real life which can make or break you. In my lifetime, I consider myself a very very shy person who's scared even to join in a friendly conversation. But people I know would say the opposite. Because I usually cover my fear with a bubbly character which is natural, thanks to my mom's genes. And because of that, with a little bit of timing, I can make a stubborn, grumpy old client smile. And that my friend is hard to develop or even learn and make it natural as your own self. And today I would say, that earned me a special commendation from "The BOSS" of not just Tom Harris Cell but was initiated from Telus themselves. Too early, won't you think? We, as dealers of TELUS are supposed to make them happy in order for us to be in business but the email sent today to our store says the opposite. TELUS took the time to email the dealer, THC and big boss THC told the owners, Harris and bosses of THC branches as to how employees should take example from me on dealing with people. Details aside, I just feel so flattered that I still can't believe that I've already got my foot on the door up there just being myself. And that's why my honey is grinning on the picture above. He's always been proud of me and you know, how many hubbies would do that to their wives' little achievements? And I always think that mine is his and his is mine so yeah, support each other and work will be the same as tiring as everyday but you'd still stay happily ever after. To be continued....