Well today was a "milestone" birthday, I guess. 35, gulp. 30 actually scared me, but other than 18 I've cared less for birthdays since I was a kid. So I got to thinking these last few weeks. Great family life=check, brain and interest in the world around me=check, still have my childlike love of video games and the Arkansas Razorbacks=check. But I'm not professionally where I want to be. 5 years ago I was a sales rep at a 35 year old company and had the highest increase in sales and profit margin for 5 years (in a row ) that they had ever had. If you don't know the story, the short version is my moral and ethical compass caused me to give them 90 days to fix their problems, they didn't, so I left a very high paying job, that I would have had for life. Well I picked the perfect economy to do that in, hindsight being 20/20. So 2 jobs later (and 2 lay offs), after only having 2 in 16 years before that, I started this windshield repair business. Yes it's going good, but I'm at the mercy of the weather (can't do it in the rain), and my body is really starting to show the wear and tear.

So I thought back. In 9th grade, when my dad was 35, he picked me up at school to fly with him to Dallas to pick up a van to drive home for a new business he was getting into. The business was a disaster, but I loved my first time flying. Up until then he'd been "retired" after starting the largest, and one of the first rent-to-own dealerships in the south. Sold it off at it's peak and made off very, very well. Of course a HS education where he went to school didn't teach him much about finances and the IRS came calling. Money gone. He bounced around for 5-6 years, and is now happy and a well compensated salesman.

So I have to get off my ass, get over it, and get back out there. I miss selling, all of it. It's what I was taught to do, and do well. The right job is there, it may take one or two to find it, but I will. Enough of the would of, could have, should have. I have to do what I have to do, and I will. Well that's all of the rant going thru my mind, I'm whipped and off to bed, hope everyone is doing great.

Peace,

Bryan