Oh man. I got to do some public speaking tonight! It wasn't a big crowd but it was still fun. The best part about it was that I was able to accomplish what I set out to do. I sold the crowd ideas, unanimously! Basically, I've been working on updating some bylaws for an organization I volunteer for and tonight was the night I got to pitch my updates to the membership. I'm not going to say that it went off without a hitch, but as one person said to me later:
"You did that in the most interesting way possible. Heck, I stayed awake."
High praise when you're trying to explain why seventeen changes to a set of bylaws that nobody ever intended to read in the first place are necessary. If I can sell that, I can sell anything.
Speaking of selling things, I spent all day at the customer service desk today at work. It's the one place where you have to know everything. Added bonus: you have to plan a way to get a drink of water when you're at the customer service desk. Needless to say, the learning curve is wearing grooves in the crinkles of my brain even now, hours after leaving the place. I appreciated what a manager told me at the start of the day:
"See. And you were all worried about running customer service by yourself Saturday. And now, here you are, running it all by yourself today!"
She was kind enough not to mention how well I was running customer service. The chance for practice though was good. Saturday still kinda worries me.
I noticed today, off shift, that I was much more driven to make connections with perfect strangers. I've never been very outgoing, but I think I'm becoming more so. I can only attribute it to the new job. I think it's a fantastic byproduct...
Uh-oh... oh dear... This is how it begins. The seed has been planted, the addictive product has been naively sampled. I will remember this post as the turning point, a pivotal moment in history, twenty four years from now when the Lightning J for President '36 commercials are airing.
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