#13 June, 24, 13

Hey!
Long time no write.
So first week of work ended on Friday. It was a pretty good week, I learned most of the product that I was going to sell and I made a few new friends. I also passed and got my drivers licence so I have been driving the past few days in my mom's car. I've still been consistently working out 2-3 times a week.
Yesterday I got a lot of stuff done. I post ads on craigslist and Kijiji for networking purposes and today I learned the route to drive to work. Today I also cleaned my room and researched a bit about stocks and how I can get started investing.
Tomorrow I need to work on my call-list for work and I have toast masters in the evening which should be good. I need to network like crazy at toastmasters :D

Aittt that is all
PCE

#12 June 16, 2013

Hey!
I haven't posted in a while.
Okay so here are some updated.
Had my birthday a few days ago, spent it with the fam and went out to eat and it was great.
I got hired for a full time job at Biosense doing sales so I will be going to work tomorrow. It pays base salary+ comision so it seems like a decent job so far. After 3 months of probation my base salary more than doubles.
I spent the weekend memorizing the products and its pretty cool, they focus on health products so that's awesome. I get to do sales + learn a bit about the health industry + help people lose weight (kinda like a fitness trainer/coach except I'll be motivating them to use the products).

I also started thinking about my future some more, and I'm more inclined towards business/finance/stocks right now. So I will explore that as well.

So yeahh tomorrow..
1) work
2) toastmasters
gotta get up at 7am so PCE

#11 (June 9, 2013)

Awesome!

Actually no... not really. Today was very unproductive. The past 2 days have been pretty unproductive and I  have been in a slump. I failed an interview within 5 minutes, went to another interview that turned out to be an MLM business opportunity with a start up cost of $500. The company's name I'll exclude because I don't want to trash any companies but they basically posted an ad on craigslist for people who wanted a leadership position in a company that sells telecommunications. Turns out you are buying their business model for a fee and you make money by selling their products to your friends and family. You can also recruit people to work for you and get money from their sales (think multi level marketing). I was very attracted to this business at one point when they mentioned residual income, since they sell home services like phone and TV, and you get 1-10% of a customer's monthly bill as residual income. So hypothetically in the long run you can make a killing if you had a lot of customers because you would only need to sell them once and get residual income forever.

Truth is... I figured it doesn't quite work that way. I used to sell Telus products so I know how competitive the home services industry is... big companies like Telus and Shaw can offer services for much cheaper prices. I looked at the MLM products and they are all more expensive than Telus and Shaw, plus the residual won't actually be forever because a lot of families switch services every few years to take advantage of new bonuses. Also their "expected earnings" is unrealistic- they give you huge numbers that you could potentially earn, but the truth is most people earn much much less. 

Basically, still jobless!

My focus right now is to get a job that can pay me stable income, while I look for what I really want to do. Also I will focus on building better habits so I don't do unproductive things like today- where I played online games and watched youtube videos all day.............. haha

anyway

PCE

#10 (June 5, 2013)

Hey!
Today was pretty good.
I.........
1) created an investment account with Raymond James ltd
2) drove my mom to her meditation place
3) wrote and sent a cover letter+resume for a vitamin consultant position
4) phoned a career counselor and asked a bunch of questions- apparently I hate innate personality characteristics and learned skils that will help me in certain careers and that can narrow down my careers a lot more


I have an interview tomorrow morning, so I gotta get some sleep now. I'll just keep sending resumes and I'll find my career/passion as I search for a job and see how it goes.....

PCE

#9 (June 3, 2013)

Today was great, I actually got some shit done.
I....
1) sent the mail to the debt collector
2) sent in resumes for jobs
3) joined toastmasters for public speaking
4) chatted up a korean chick on the way home and got her #
5) phoned Maria and asked for info about her idea

Toastmasters is a pretty cool speaking club, they have a lot of great speakers and I can look into motivational speaking and see what they actually do. It was cool listening to them speak today, they rarely used words like "ummm, like, etc" and spoke very coherently.

OH YEAH, and my mom got a cat that is staying at our place for 2 days....

Anyway
Tomorrow I need to get up earlier, and get my sleeping schedule back on track.... get a job... keep asking questions about careers.... yeah, just keep moving forward
PCE

#8 (June 1st, 2013)

My bad for not posting yesterday
Its been good today and yesterday. I finished the letter from my pro bono lawyer and sent it to the debt collector. I need to send a hard copy too, so I need to buy stamps tomorrow.
Today I drove my mom to her meditation place. I researched phone numbers I can call to interview about certain career options. I also started a financial summary of the first 5 years in each career, so far only finished half of one career.
I've also been talking about careers to pretty much every I've met, so its opened my mind a bit.
Tomorrow morning I'm learning the North Vancouver driving area so I can get my licence at the ICBC here.

Aittt PCE