I'm ready to get home. It has been a long week learning the new gig. I have a grasp of the basics, but learning a whole new portfolio of products is no easy task. A new company, new competitors, new applications I don't understand combine to make me feel foolish and overwhelmed. The realization I will have to find new applications for widgets I barely comprehend leaves me down and drained. It will come to me, of that I have no doubt. Still, I have to keep pushing the adage about old dogs from my mind. Every night I go back to my hotel and study power point presentations, videos, catalogues and websites. I get trained on systems and products and part numbers during the day.
Sometime late today I will head back home through the lousy Chicago traffic. I will get home when I do. It looks like the long weekend will be a wet one. So it goes.
My brother spent this week in Schaumburg learning his new job. He's lucky, though. He's been involved in the cutting tool business from production to selling to management for twenty years or more.
Nothing new is ever easy, but as we get older we know how to get it done.
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My brother spent this week in Schaumburg learning his new job.
ReplyDeleteHe's lucky, though. He's been involved in the cutting tool business from production to selling to management for twenty years or more.