The time has come for me to admit- "I am not a salesman." I was not meant to be a salesman, I was not cut out to be a salesman, I'm not naturally good at it, and I don't really enjoy being a salesman... And now I've been hired as a salesman and have been spoken of enough to place expectations of me in the high-end department, thats a minimum. All of those things I said before, about not being meant for it, or even liking it that much, doesn't stop me from being good at it, not naturally, like I said, but I am required to be. I require myself to be.
Best Buy is good to its employees. In addition to their infamous employee discount (the details of which I am not allowed to legally discuss here) they also provide a slew of other benefits for both part time and full timers. The reason I wanted Best Buy, the reason I fought for it, was because they offer a great educational assistance program for their full time staff. This is all phase one material of the evil plan.
A program that I got involved in while in High School (A+) covers my tuition costs for college for two to three years, depending on the school I go to. The one I am most interested in would provide only two years, but it is the superior university. The A+ program covers everything but books. Best Buy will finance the education of a full time employee in my area up to $7000 a year, which is amazing. That would well cover auxillary expenses, books, and any tuition following the expenditure of the A+ would be drastically reduced.
If I am to make it to Australia, I'm going to have to make that debt isn't going to attach me to this country. For that reason, I want to have everything paid for at the time of graduation, if possible. That means jumping at every opportunity for mid-path scholarships and it also means getting full time at Best Buy, and soon.
My understanding is that there will be a full time position opening at my Best Buy, in my department near December or soAoner, I want it. A recent PT hire getting full time in such a time frame is unheard of. But I am going to get it. To do that, I'm going to have to give them a good reason, a very good reason, to choose me over the guys that have been there part time for a year, year and a half. A Godlike reason.
So I'm basically going to become the godlike salesman. It's necessary. I'm entering the pipeline for management. I want to be in management as soon as possible.
Mmm... I think I may have to learn to juggle.
From this point on, I begin saving. This job comes with a generous salary and all of it that I can spare is going into savings for that day. I'll be thrifty, and if everything works out the way I'd like it to, I won't have to burn much on college expenses. Phase one was graduation. Phase Two is getting full time and having college completely paid for before I start, as well as getting a good cash flow. Phase Three is finding a decent, inexpensive place to live, and maintaining it. Phase Four is uni, four years of it. Phase five is the possibility of opening a Best Buy in my favorite place on earth. That part I say as possible, and not guaruntee because its optional, if I actually find a career interest in college and I enjoy it, or another opportunity in Australia presents itself, I may go for that. But, it is always on my mind.

Unfortunately for anyone reading this, just about every time I write is going to happen just before I go into work. Best Buy scheduled me 30.75 hours this week with two closing nights. Which means 35 to 36 total hours this week. That, in addition to my other job at Michaels... I don't have a lot of free time anymore, except in the dead middle of night, which I guess is convenient for me because that time slot is just the right time to do the very thing I would prefer to do with any of my free time.
This I suppose is where I would be remiss if I did not give a shout out to Jess. Or at least mention her. Jessica Bond (angels singing) is my number one "Aussie Chick" (Thats Connie.) living the dream (my dream :P) right there right now in the land down under. She and I met about a year ago, actually very close to a year ago exactly, in a chat- I mean uh... through the pen pal program at our schools... yeah. We hit it off. Like... REALLY hit it off. Like indescribably so. She has a great sense of humor and I like to make people laugh, and visa versa. With perhaps little more than extremely compatible personalities and a mutual disdain for tomatoes, we kept up correspondance all through... well, just about everything. Writing constantly laughing our way through an entire year of friendship that bloomed, as we both did independantly, into something... quite a bit more than mere friendship. (Not a word Connie... not-a-word...)
Now I call her whenever I can. It took some time buy I managed to find a good phone service that allows me to call, yes 9000 miles away, for only 2 cents a minute.
(By the way, just a quick inside tip: that phone service, Skype, was recently purhased by Ebay for several million dollars I think. Skye is going to be huge, buy stock.)

Alright, now I'm going to be late for work. I'll be back around and elaborating again before you know it though, but for now... if I have any desire at all to keep the job I'm desperate to perfect, I need to at least be there on time.

(Note: The reason for the reappearance of posts on this blog is not completely clear as of yet. But it is PrisonerofHope that is mostly to blame... For more information, read the comments on the post before this. Enjoy ;)

If the title wasn't obvious enough, this is the first post of this blog. The category on all blogs from this point will always be Travel, and there is a good reason for that. I suppose we'll start at the beginning. First: I am not into politics, nor world events, and you'll see very little (if any at all) reference or mention of things going on outside my little world. Two: To balance everything out and still make it interesting, I write. I have been writing since I discovered that there was such a thing as language, in fact I wrote my first story before I really at all knew how to read. I've been at it ever since and have been doing my best to improve as I go along. You may see some of my material here. Perhaps not on the blog, but publicly posted or linked. Third: I am going to Australia. That is not a hope, dream, wish, or objective. That is a fact. And I will not stand for it to be reduced to any of those other things. I've been stuck in Missouri for the majority of my life and that will change. To accomplish this, I have generated what I have come to dub "The Evil Four Year Plan" which is working out quite well I must say. Everything I do from this moment till the moment that plane hits the ground in Melbourne, is all about getting there. Its the decided direction of my life, and god save you if you get in my way. Fourth: And I should probably mention this- Concerning religion. You will not see a great deal of that on this blog or site either. Though if you are intrepid enough to contact me personally or ask, I'll be more than happy to discuss it with you. Though I won't argue with you about it... It is kind of complicated. For a basic rundown, so that no one is confused I'll go ahead and provide a link to the oratory that I wrote about a year ago and ended up defining the idea of religion and faith for me. I'm still a bit new to this so I'm not entirely certain what the link will look like, if you're not sure either, just click the word "oratory" in the preceeding sentence and you that should work out alright. What I am sure of is that I have to be on the clock at Best Buy in ten minutes so I'm going to wrap this up and say goodbye.

Okay everyone. I know you all love the stream and I know that it means a lot to you that we stick to our name brand here but I have found my haven and my recent blogstream has been a little choppy, something about a dissonance in our technology. All of that said is only to mean this: I'm moving. My blog that is. I've relocated and the new site is working quite well, I've done several posts and the tech attached to it is new, modern, and very very useful. Everything is beautifully seamless. This will hereby be the last post I place on this blog. The new address is- Monsterbox Bookmark it if you don't want to remember the long name. Heck I did, and I operate the darned thing. :P Cheers mates! Its been real.