I love what I do. I have been so lost at times with careers and with gowing up that I didn’t even see the gift God gave me. I love people. I love serving them, and watching TV and listening to music all day can only be the best job. It sometimes turns into the the hardest chore and at times can be a nightmare. Allot of things do. This should not be one them. I lived it believe me.
It didn’t start out that way. I remember promises of money and of rewards. I remember noble thoughts of shaking the world foundation. I remember conversations of setting the world on fire and customer service beyond the moon. I remember words of thanks when I gave up my all so they would be OK. Hard to look back now and realize how my own family suffered so someone elses didn’t have to. Sad to say it but we were on top. We were on our way to be the best. At times we were the best. But inside it felt like the bottom. It’s amazing how much we see the toothpick in someone else eye but don’t see the huge tree trunk in our own. Now I see only pity. How can someone go from trully wanting to be the best at what they do only to lose sight on why they do it in the first place? It took divorce to see the light.

We don’t do it for ourselves or for money at the risk of hurting the people who got us to the top in the first place. Amazing how we forgot whose shoulders carried us when we couldn’t walk at all. You can’t ignore those who got you to the mountain. It amazing to see how empty those same people are when the next mountain comes along and they can’t even begin to make it on their own.
I can only tell you the reason anyone should ever do anything for someone else is because you want to and with no expectation of anything in return. It is the only true way to see the reward. You can’t do it for money or fame or any type of noble cause. You don’t do it because someone tells you they got your back. You do it because it is right. You do it for the reasons that allow you to look in the mirror and say I won’t compromise. I will not forget the ones who carried me. You do it because you care and the true reward is a smile on your clients face. No it doesn’t pay for your trip to another country but let’s face it. Smiles on Clients faces pay your bills; your employees don’t. Any person that can sell almost $5 million dollars worth of goods and get more than smiles back, must be doing something right.

Too bad your “friend” and comrade in arms doesn’t see the light. All they see is disposable income. Too bad it’s the employees that are disposable. Even worse is that they think they are the light. Shame. This disgrace is not what I signed up for. I could no longer look at myself in the face and belienve in a lie. I feel better knowing that my heart is OK. Some people should never get into the service industry. Especially those with their hand out. Never serve when you can wait I guess?
It is one thing to profess the truth and another thing to live it. I never was a Holy Roller but you know, my heart was more than in the right place. I can’t believe after all that I gave that people have the audacity to slander and spread libel. It seems so unfair but with humans nothing should ever be taken for granted. It’s why I held back in the beginning in the first place. Now it seems justified. I never wanted that.
I am not angry. I never was. I only wanted to believe in the better good of a few people and naturally I was wrong. It never stopped me from looking in the mirror and saying I gave my all. At the expense of myself, my safety and my family I gave it all. Well it pays off. Even now I rest well. Havent done that in a long time.

I feel it is terrible that those in charge forget the basic rule of business, “People are the power of any good business”.

A great work environment allows people to work hard for descent pay, grow professionally, offers respect to their associates and in return commands respect from their associates. Today, I have been blessed with an opportunity to work with a company that really cares about their associates. I actually accepted the position for less than my normal pay only because of the professional caring environment. I know God answers prayers.