Alas, the jouranly entry I've been dying to write for 360 days, not 365 because my membership started 10/26/05.
I have been promoted. Promoted to a position that officially starts my business career. Now I will have the opportunity to show and prove my business knowledge and customer ethics. I can't emphasize customer enough. I don't mean customer service like some generic term used for filler in presentations, but rather how I take the business world and simplify it into "you want a service/product, I want to provide the product/service to you...over and over and over and over". In my brain, there are three aspects to business.....innovation, cost control, keeping your customers. For me, you can't have one without the other. Each one supports the other. Problem right there: "but LostIdentity, you didn't mention the word profit!" Very true.....I was blessed to have a few classes with some teachers who knew their stuff! I had the opportunity to read a book authored by Peter Drucker. Everything he said, made total sense to me! I quote, but maybe not exactly....paraphrase if you will..."The function of a business is not to create profit, but to provide a service/product to its customers". Try saying that to a typical CEO or manager and you're bound to get fired and laughed at.
Anyway, I'm excited about this because I now have the chance to be exposed to what its like in the corporate world. I definitely don't know everything. My above paragraph only signifies my core beliefs, not that I know everything. However, having been surrounded in a small business restaurant type environment for over twenty years has certainly shaped me into my customer friendly ethics, i.e. I know what its like to twiddle your thumbs one minute wondering how to get your next customer to walk in the door and how the next minute you're totally ambushed by people who want products you've just ran out of.
One of the good parts about this is that I am not dwelling on the fact that its taken so long. Honestly, the past couple of years, some things have been so boring that they've gotten blurry. But the progression I made in my job over these past two years has made me somewhat embarassed. I mean, I think that one of the reasons I was even considered for this position I just got was because over the past year, I have added MANY new responsibilities to my repetoir. I think unintentionally, I made a very positive impression because of that. I say unintentionally because after my first warning for socializing and fucking up a couple of times, I came down hard on myself and said "you didn't move to New Jersey to make friends, you came here for a career". That resulted in me not wanting to talk to half the people on the floor, which mean more time. I got the responsibilties I started out with, down to about three hours of my day, and the rest was free to do other type of work. I don't like sitting on the job for any reason (yea, I'm such a good worker aren't I? lol) anyway, so now I sound like a teachers pet or something. Well, my intention was not to create a good impression, but to learn wherever I could learn. I'm embarassed because now I'm like, what the fuck was I doing before? Was I really socializing that much?
Well, the moment of truth for myself has arrived. Its time to show everyone, but more importantly myself, what I'm about. I no longer have to worry if I'm stupid, or not good enough, or why I'm constantly being ignored. I can now focus all of my energy on my work because I know that what I'm about to do, will have significant importance on my future.
I had everyone congratulating and emailing me, but what was very overwhelming was the amount of people who said "You deserve it" That was a very humbling moment. To think that I didn't have anyone on my side, I'm kind of embarassed to admit.
Phew, this has got to be the longest journal entry I've ever made. But its by far been the most satisfying because I've said things that I"ve been dreaming about saying for quite some time now.
But now the biggest moments await: I get to tell my dad and my mom, and I'm already crying because of that. I'm in a very proud moment right now, but I know that come Monday, a whole new change will be on my shoulders. One kinda freaky coincidental thing: I wasn't made aware of this until earlier this morning. Last night, I noticed I had neglected to water one of my plants for a very long time, and I noticed that it was still green, but flopped over the little pot. I watered it. Now its standing tall again.
OH yea, very big fucking grin!
I have been promoted. Promoted to a position that officially starts my business career. Now I will have the opportunity to show and prove my business knowledge and customer ethics. I can't emphasize customer enough. I don't mean customer service like some generic term used for filler in presentations, but rather how I take the business world and simplify it into "you want a service/product, I want to provide the product/service to you...over and over and over and over". In my brain, there are three aspects to business.....innovation, cost control, keeping your customers. For me, you can't have one without the other. Each one supports the other. Problem right there: "but LostIdentity, you didn't mention the word profit!" Very true.....I was blessed to have a few classes with some teachers who knew their stuff! I had the opportunity to read a book authored by Peter Drucker. Everything he said, made total sense to me! I quote, but maybe not exactly....paraphrase if you will..."The function of a business is not to create profit, but to provide a service/product to its customers". Try saying that to a typical CEO or manager and you're bound to get fired and laughed at.
Anyway, I'm excited about this because I now have the chance to be exposed to what its like in the corporate world. I definitely don't know everything. My above paragraph only signifies my core beliefs, not that I know everything. However, having been surrounded in a small business restaurant type environment for over twenty years has certainly shaped me into my customer friendly ethics, i.e. I know what its like to twiddle your thumbs one minute wondering how to get your next customer to walk in the door and how the next minute you're totally ambushed by people who want products you've just ran out of.
One of the good parts about this is that I am not dwelling on the fact that its taken so long. Honestly, the past couple of years, some things have been so boring that they've gotten blurry. But the progression I made in my job over these past two years has made me somewhat embarassed. I mean, I think that one of the reasons I was even considered for this position I just got was because over the past year, I have added MANY new responsibilities to my repetoir. I think unintentionally, I made a very positive impression because of that. I say unintentionally because after my first warning for socializing and fucking up a couple of times, I came down hard on myself and said "you didn't move to New Jersey to make friends, you came here for a career". That resulted in me not wanting to talk to half the people on the floor, which mean more time. I got the responsibilties I started out with, down to about three hours of my day, and the rest was free to do other type of work. I don't like sitting on the job for any reason (yea, I'm such a good worker aren't I? lol) anyway, so now I sound like a teachers pet or something. Well, my intention was not to create a good impression, but to learn wherever I could learn. I'm embarassed because now I'm like, what the fuck was I doing before? Was I really socializing that much?
Well, the moment of truth for myself has arrived. Its time to show everyone, but more importantly myself, what I'm about. I no longer have to worry if I'm stupid, or not good enough, or why I'm constantly being ignored. I can now focus all of my energy on my work because I know that what I'm about to do, will have significant importance on my future.
I had everyone congratulating and emailing me, but what was very overwhelming was the amount of people who said "You deserve it" That was a very humbling moment. To think that I didn't have anyone on my side, I'm kind of embarassed to admit.
Phew, this has got to be the longest journal entry I've ever made. But its by far been the most satisfying because I've said things that I"ve been dreaming about saying for quite some time now.
But now the biggest moments await: I get to tell my dad and my mom, and I'm already crying because of that. I'm in a very proud moment right now, but I know that come Monday, a whole new change will be on my shoulders. One kinda freaky coincidental thing: I wasn't made aware of this until earlier this morning. Last night, I noticed I had neglected to water one of my plants for a very long time, and I noticed that it was still green, but flopped over the little pot. I watered it. Now its standing tall again.
OH yea, very big fucking grin!
But I kid. Congrats, man. You DO deserve it.
-TM