Well, this must be short because I do have to set up my continuing education classes now so I will be in compliance by Monday!!!
Talk to you later!
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Employed - AFLAC Sales Agent!!!
Thank God. I am employed! I accepted a position today as an AFLAC sales rep and start immediately. I am very excited about this opportunity and ask that all of my family and friends keep me in mind when they are thinking of additional insurance either as an individual, for the company they work for or if they are self-employed. I start training Monday and am expected to have appointments set for Friday of that week. I have used AFLAC in the past as a Human Resource Manager and love their policies that they offer the employees.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
SOOO SORRY!
My test results!!! Obviously, by reading the past few posts, you can see life around here as been "crazy" to say the least. I went to my appointment with my blood doc and the results of the second tests showed that my red blood cell count is still high. However, I do not show any signs right now of any type of blood disorder including cancer. YEAH!!!!! He does want to see me again in May to run the same tests for the third time to confirm the second results. So, I will let you know about that then.
BORED to DEATH!!!
Well, what to say about unemployment...... The first week was a vacation. Did NOTHING! It was GREAT! The second, cleaned the entire house and all the cabinets and closets. Now, the third week, LOOSING MY MIND!!!!! I will never retire! I can not do this.
Have been on a few interviews and offered two positions, however one was just too far to travel and the other the biggest sales scheme I have ever encountered selling health benefits, payroll svs and tax options to small business and the self employed, like um my husband, Doug. Although, I was offered a district position which basically means I would be recruiting people to join this sales scheme. I won't give the name of the company just yet they are back to the drawing board working on a new salary/incentive package to make me feel "differently"..... NOT POSSIBLE! But it is fun being in my seat right now.
I do have an interview tomorrow with AFLAC as a district sales agent. I am very excited about this position. I will however have to complete 48 CE (continuing education) classes before the beginning of July and 24 CE classes by the end of July for my state Health, Life and Variable Annuities insurance license. I will also need to get my "series 7" license so that I can write 401K plans and retirement policies. The lady at an insurance school I contacted said it is possible, but going to be VERY difficult! I can do that! What the hell else do I have to do right now???
Doug is still in California until Thursday with the executives at Play n Trade working on all the final paperwork and training so he can come back and begin construction and work on a grand opening date! Sarah misses him soo much. He was supposed to be home Wed but had to rearrange his flight for a meeting that was set up for Wed so now he does not come home until Thursday. So she is very upset with him! I do feel bad for him (which does take a lot for me) his flight leaves California at 12am pacific time and arrives in Orlando at 5am eastern time. YUCH!
It is late and I am bored so I am going to bed. Talk to you soon!!!! Pray for AFLAC tomorrow!
Love to all!
Kris
Have been on a few interviews and offered two positions, however one was just too far to travel and the other the biggest sales scheme I have ever encountered selling health benefits, payroll svs and tax options to small business and the self employed, like um my husband, Doug. Although, I was offered a district position which basically means I would be recruiting people to join this sales scheme. I won't give the name of the company just yet they are back to the drawing board working on a new salary/incentive package to make me feel "differently"..... NOT POSSIBLE! But it is fun being in my seat right now.
I do have an interview tomorrow with AFLAC as a district sales agent. I am very excited about this position. I will however have to complete 48 CE (continuing education) classes before the beginning of July and 24 CE classes by the end of July for my state Health, Life and Variable Annuities insurance license. I will also need to get my "series 7" license so that I can write 401K plans and retirement policies. The lady at an insurance school I contacted said it is possible, but going to be VERY difficult! I can do that! What the hell else do I have to do right now???
Doug is still in California until Thursday with the executives at Play n Trade working on all the final paperwork and training so he can come back and begin construction and work on a grand opening date! Sarah misses him soo much. He was supposed to be home Wed but had to rearrange his flight for a meeting that was set up for Wed so now he does not come home until Thursday. So she is very upset with him! I do feel bad for him (which does take a lot for me) his flight leaves California at 12am pacific time and arrives in Orlando at 5am eastern time. YUCH!
It is late and I am bored so I am going to bed. Talk to you soon!!!! Pray for AFLAC tomorrow!
Love to all!
Kris
Friday, February 8, 2008
Unemployment
Well, it seems that Doug and I are officially unemployed!!! Master Roofing has downsized and we were let go. I never thought that the construction industry would reach this low, but it has and Doug and I are both without jobs at the same time. But, it will be okay!
Doug is opening a "Play and Trade" store about a mile down the road and is setting up all the proper documents to move forward. I mentioned that I felt a vacation to California was in the near future well this is wierd! It just so happens that the 4 day training seminar for new owners is in California, so Doug will be heading to California in a few weeks..... Not really a vacation because Doug is the only one that is going but I found that wierd that the trip was not planned when I said that!!!
As for me, a lot of opportunities have opened up. I have sent my resume to a few places for outside sales and one of them is in Fort Myers Florida. It is a position with Owens Corning for the South West area. I would have to relocate but I would be home Friday - Sunday. The pay and benifits make it very enticing... So, keep your fingers crossed and pray for us! We are getting pretty good at making it through tough times.
Doug is opening a "Play and Trade" store about a mile down the road and is setting up all the proper documents to move forward. I mentioned that I felt a vacation to California was in the near future well this is wierd! It just so happens that the 4 day training seminar for new owners is in California, so Doug will be heading to California in a few weeks..... Not really a vacation because Doug is the only one that is going but I found that wierd that the trip was not planned when I said that!!!
As for me, a lot of opportunities have opened up. I have sent my resume to a few places for outside sales and one of them is in Fort Myers Florida. It is a position with Owens Corning for the South West area. I would have to relocate but I would be home Friday - Sunday. The pay and benifits make it very enticing... So, keep your fingers crossed and pray for us! We are getting pretty good at making it through tough times.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
We Did It Again!
I am losing faith in Florida when it comes to anything related to elections. Florida still gets jokes about our recount episode and now....
I was listening to the radio this morning on my way to take Sarah to school and can you believe the topic was, "How many times can we screw up elections" Apparently, many Floridians thought that yesterday was voting day. They did not realize it was last Tuesday! I guess all the publicity, the signs, and of coarse all the people standing on every street corner with "Vote for..., or jumping out at you flailing the sign in your face and almost getting run over didn't give them a hint. Not to mention the fact that the very next day no one was on street corners and most of the signs had disappeard. With our new law about collecting all the signs quickly after voting day you would think that definitely by Friday these people that did not know they missed the election would have figured it out then. But NO, they actually showed up to their usual place to vote yesterday and were upset that they did not know they missed election day!!
Maybe if you are that "CLUELESS" you shouldn't vote anyway!!!
I was listening to the radio this morning on my way to take Sarah to school and can you believe the topic was, "How many times can we screw up elections" Apparently, many Floridians thought that yesterday was voting day. They did not realize it was last Tuesday! I guess all the publicity, the signs, and of coarse all the people standing on every street corner with "Vote for..., or jumping out at you flailing the sign in your face and almost getting run over didn't give them a hint. Not to mention the fact that the very next day no one was on street corners and most of the signs had disappeard. With our new law about collecting all the signs quickly after voting day you would think that definitely by Friday these people that did not know they missed the election would have figured it out then. But NO, they actually showed up to their usual place to vote yesterday and were upset that they did not know they missed election day!!
Maybe if you are that "CLUELESS" you shouldn't vote anyway!!!
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Stress... That mean little word!!!!
Spell check will not work so you will have to deal with it. I don't have time to go back and proof!!!!!
I am so Blessed to have many family and friends looking out for me. Uncle John, please know that Doug and I's first priority as hard as that is right now is to reduce my stress.... I am just not good with dealing with many changes very well. My red blood cell count is 16.5 to 17.5 and my blood pressure is a steady 135 over 115. ( NOT GOOD) Working on improving that... A vacation is due and a trip to California is calling!!!!!
I will not say that I am spoiled now, because many, if not all will say I was growing up; but Doug and I have worked VERY hard to get where we are today and have the things that we have, but we are learning that those things are not so important. Fighting and winning custody of his son twice over the years was a HUGE accomplishment for us and Daymond, and watching him grow in a stable and loving enviornment has been a great success in itself but now that he is 19 and our daughter Sarah is doing well both in school and socially, especially in our neighborhood, has made us sit back and really think what is important to us. We are very much a part of our kids lives, even though they are not too thrilled with that sometimes, but things are changing; we are getting older and "maturing"!!! (now I am starting to feel old)
As most of you know, especially those that live in Florida, the construction industry here is ALMOST obsolete! I love what I do! And for those that do not know what that is, I run all the re-roof estimates and sales, I run our track home roof crews and since I have a degree in Human Resources I handle all of our employee and benefit issues. Doug handles all of our commercial accounts, apartment complexes and resaurants. I am really having a hard time even thinking that this may come to an end! I LOVE WHAT I DO!!!!!!!!!! Doug is attempting to sit for his roofing license, I say attempting, because who can study for a state test with all this chaos and stress. His test is this month and neither of us have good fellings about it! It seems that in the next few near months a REALY HARD decision will have to be made. A LOT more money is going out right now than what is coming in and in business, I have been told over and over by Doug and his dad, like I don't know this; THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!! I am in denial..... Did I tell you I LOVE WHAT I DO DAMN IT! Master Roofing has to survive.
Well, if it does or does not happen, here is our (the Slechta's) plan. I still want to sell roofs, I LOVE IT. Doug's mom and dad (who also work for our roofing company, Master Roofing, are looking into purchasing a mobil home park on Lake Apopka as positive cash flow. Doug's brother did this over in Melbourne, Florida and is clearing 3000.00 per mo. in positive cash flow. Good money for Doug's parents, they want to retire anyway. As for Doug and I, Doug is looking into opening a franchise; a "Game Stop" store in a nearby shoping center. The store sells new and used games and movies and also takes either on trade. ( A long way from my new passion of selling roofs) We have had our attorneys and accountants looking into this new endeavour and so far it looks promissing??? Me, I am freaking out! Not good timing for all of what is going on with me medically, but some say change is good!
A good friend of mine who owns another roofing company; one of our main competitors, said I can always come work for him. Except, he is not hiring right now because business is soooo slow! Go FIGURE!!!!
Picture this.... You have all seen before and after pictures of people that have gone on diets, most of us have them of ourselves. Well, Doug has both the before look and the after at one time. The left side of his face is after the diet and the right side, well it is the before!!!! He has an absest tooth and his face is soooo swollen! The dentist gave him an antibiotic and we are alternating tylenol and advil for pain since the BIG baby (6'4") won't take pain pills..... I am telling you, no matter how big the man when they get sick they go DOWN, they go down worse than an infant. He is letterally driving me crazy, now he has have a fever and it is hot, it is cold, it is hot, you get the picture. I have decided to just lie to him when he asks me one second if the heat is on and the next if the air is on. What ever he wants at THAT SECOND, jee what a coincidence that is what the temp is on!! HAHAHAH He won't know!
You wouldn't know this by reading, well, I have been gone for 20 min, it seems that Sarah, 6, is sick. She just got up and wouldn't you know, she is hot, she is cold, again, you get the picture. This is going to be a LOOOOONG night! Back to Walgreens I go to now get baby tylenol and advil. This will make my 3rd trip in less than 3 hours, this pharmasist is going to think I am crazy!
Talk to you soon and everyone take care. I WILL DO THE SAME.
I am so Blessed to have many family and friends looking out for me. Uncle John, please know that Doug and I's first priority as hard as that is right now is to reduce my stress.... I am just not good with dealing with many changes very well. My red blood cell count is 16.5 to 17.5 and my blood pressure is a steady 135 over 115. ( NOT GOOD) Working on improving that... A vacation is due and a trip to California is calling!!!!!
I will not say that I am spoiled now, because many, if not all will say I was growing up; but Doug and I have worked VERY hard to get where we are today and have the things that we have, but we are learning that those things are not so important. Fighting and winning custody of his son twice over the years was a HUGE accomplishment for us and Daymond, and watching him grow in a stable and loving enviornment has been a great success in itself but now that he is 19 and our daughter Sarah is doing well both in school and socially, especially in our neighborhood, has made us sit back and really think what is important to us. We are very much a part of our kids lives, even though they are not too thrilled with that sometimes, but things are changing; we are getting older and "maturing"!!! (now I am starting to feel old)
As most of you know, especially those that live in Florida, the construction industry here is ALMOST obsolete! I love what I do! And for those that do not know what that is, I run all the re-roof estimates and sales, I run our track home roof crews and since I have a degree in Human Resources I handle all of our employee and benefit issues. Doug handles all of our commercial accounts, apartment complexes and resaurants. I am really having a hard time even thinking that this may come to an end! I LOVE WHAT I DO!!!!!!!!!! Doug is attempting to sit for his roofing license, I say attempting, because who can study for a state test with all this chaos and stress. His test is this month and neither of us have good fellings about it! It seems that in the next few near months a REALY HARD decision will have to be made. A LOT more money is going out right now than what is coming in and in business, I have been told over and over by Doug and his dad, like I don't know this; THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!! I am in denial..... Did I tell you I LOVE WHAT I DO DAMN IT! Master Roofing has to survive.
Well, if it does or does not happen, here is our (the Slechta's) plan. I still want to sell roofs, I LOVE IT. Doug's mom and dad (who also work for our roofing company, Master Roofing, are looking into purchasing a mobil home park on Lake Apopka as positive cash flow. Doug's brother did this over in Melbourne, Florida and is clearing 3000.00 per mo. in positive cash flow. Good money for Doug's parents, they want to retire anyway. As for Doug and I, Doug is looking into opening a franchise; a "Game Stop" store in a nearby shoping center. The store sells new and used games and movies and also takes either on trade. ( A long way from my new passion of selling roofs) We have had our attorneys and accountants looking into this new endeavour and so far it looks promissing??? Me, I am freaking out! Not good timing for all of what is going on with me medically, but some say change is good!
A good friend of mine who owns another roofing company; one of our main competitors, said I can always come work for him. Except, he is not hiring right now because business is soooo slow! Go FIGURE!!!!
Picture this.... You have all seen before and after pictures of people that have gone on diets, most of us have them of ourselves. Well, Doug has both the before look and the after at one time. The left side of his face is after the diet and the right side, well it is the before!!!! He has an absest tooth and his face is soooo swollen! The dentist gave him an antibiotic and we are alternating tylenol and advil for pain since the BIG baby (6'4") won't take pain pills..... I am telling you, no matter how big the man when they get sick they go DOWN, they go down worse than an infant. He is letterally driving me crazy, now he has have a fever and it is hot, it is cold, it is hot, you get the picture. I have decided to just lie to him when he asks me one second if the heat is on and the next if the air is on. What ever he wants at THAT SECOND, jee what a coincidence that is what the temp is on!! HAHAHAH He won't know!
You wouldn't know this by reading, well, I have been gone for 20 min, it seems that Sarah, 6, is sick. She just got up and wouldn't you know, she is hot, she is cold, again, you get the picture. This is going to be a LOOOOONG night! Back to Walgreens I go to now get baby tylenol and advil. This will make my 3rd trip in less than 3 hours, this pharmasist is going to think I am crazy!
Talk to you soon and everyone take care. I WILL DO THE SAME.
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