Still hot? Why yes it is. Just like a steam bath! Good excuse to stay inside and write. I'm entering another contest. Another childerns book. Wish me luck! Please enjoy this next part.
I didn't know how to really quit that job, they were very positive about my selling. That week I sold five cars and they knew I was on a roll. I did however give them a notice of one week. I told him that I was leaving and that I was going to a new position with a new company on the following Monday. They tried talking me into staying but I just couldn't do it. That week a new set of trucks came in on the truck I spotted a pretty black little Ford truck that I thought I would need, after all I've been using one of their cars and I needed one of my own in order to get to the new job so I applied to get the loan on this new truck and I was given the loan. The loan officer told me that when a salesman buys a vehicle usually that is for sure that he is going to get leave and go somewhere else to work.
That last Saturday that I was to be at work they were going to have a sales meeting. I stayed behind without going to the sales meeting it was early in the day in the dealership was not even open yet however there were a couple customers on the lot looking at the vehicles won a particular was looking at my new truck I went out to the lot and talk to the customer I talk to the other customer as well until I be with them in a minute one customer was interested in my truck so it took them back to where the trucks were located a told him that I would be back in a moment. I went to the other customer and he was interested in a used car, I told the customer that the dealership was not open yet but that I would be happy to take care of them as soon as it was it was to be open in a few minutes.
On my last day at work the Saturday before I was to start my new job I sold 2 1/2 cars half car meaning that you split the deal between yourself and another salesperson so I ended the week on a good note.
I arrived at the meat company on Monday at an early time of six o'clock all I had that day to do with paperwork so it was going to be rather boring but still kind of interesting. I met the administrator Marsha she had a mail the paperwork that I needed to fill out and I needed to go and take a physical so she had already set up for me and I went and did that to. After I returned from the physical, I met with the branch manager. He told me that I would probably be about all that we would do for the day and that the next morning I should arrive early. Early was five o'clock in the morning this is going to be new for me.
The next day at five o'clock in the morning I was at the business ready to go I met one of the fellows I was going to ride with that day on the route we had to put on these long white coats. The day was typical of any day on a route I remembered when I was on the route that Coca-Cola. It was very similar in sales except that it was meat instead of beverages.
It didn't take me long to get into the swing of things. I learned how to handle their computer system very well it was similar to what we had a Coca-Cola. Selling meat selling soft drinks through DSD sales, was still the same. It was only a few short weeks when one of the fellows was retiring that meant that the swing person that they had was going to fill that route. It also meant that I would be a swing person for about a year. That meant that the pay was going to be low but that my training was going to be at least a year and branch manager thought that the year was not enough to really learn the job but that I was a quick learner and then maybe everything will work out in my favor.
