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.