Make the post faggot.
You, of all people, should respect my gym time.
I often post in the gym with 0 care if anyone is going to get accidentally redpilled by shoulder surfing.
I'm not going to make the post yet, I want to wait to see if I actually get the job offer first because I want to ask Poal's opinion on what to do. But regardless, I will tell you and @AOU here because you ask.
God is fucking with me.
Getting kicked out of the sober house sucked, nearly drove me insane. Came close to missing my job interview because I got locked out of my new sober house with a dead cellphone.
Whatever. Awful week. Going insane with despair and resentment. Go to some AA meetings, admit some of my Sins to God and the Boys.
Go to work. Hate work. Work makes me poor. Thought I was gonna get fired because I no-called no-showed Monday. I was gonna call out sick for the interview, but my phone was dead and I ended up locked out of my sober house, so I didn't inform anyone. I think the people at work know I am going through a hard time. I think some of them suspect I may be homeless.
Whatever, Ching-Chong is the owner, he is a good guy. I sit next to him, he gets back from China and brings us donuts. That was a blessing, not much in terms of food for me this week.
Hate this job, but fuck it, I still gotta try.
Send emails that I know will never be read. Hundreds of emails.
Get an email. Someone actually read my email.
I work with (x).
Email reads
Hey Theo, do you have (y)?
Our company does not really specialize in (y), (y) is lower profit and you really have to want a lot of it to make financial sense. Thinking of brushing it off, telling her we don't really do it, but decide not to do that. I tell her I can get her (y). Ask her what kind of (y) she wants, and how much of it she wants.
She says
Great, I will send you over an NDA
Nothing too special here, but usually an NDA is a good sign, it means they are serious about something. I sign the NDA, return it to her. Takes a bit for her to reply, but she sends me some design files and a speadsheet with he EAU and target pricing, along with a link to their BOM management system.
Holy fuck, this lady wants 2.7 million dollars of (y).
She seems pretty serious about it too. Said she will get me an engineering lead to work with me when the time comes. If I can make this deal happen, it will be the single largest deal our company has ever seen, by a massive margin. It would net me about 70,000.00 USD. And if the deal goes through, her company is also a massive consumer of (x), which is much more expensive and much more profitable. I would basically be able to ignore everything else at work, and focus exclusively on this account, because it would be the largest driver of revenue by a large margin.
I spent the end of the week pouring over those files. I found some errors and asked her intelligent questions and overall have been doing really well with the project so far.
I showed the files and the speadsheet to Ching-Chong, and his eyes grew wide with delight.
There are still plenty of chances for this to get fucked up, I have to rely on the chinks to actually produce this correctly, but I am actually pretty good at informing them when they do not understand something.
This is by no means a certain thing, but if it goes through, it would be absolutely huge.
Which is why I am so fucking confused right now. Is God rewarding me for my repentance?
Or is he dangling a carrot in front of me that I will never taste?
It is very confusing, and I do not trust it 100%.
Regardless, this will be a huge week one way or another. I just need to keep going to meetings and praying, and work hard and see what comes of it.
Shitty situation, but at least things are moving and you have a job.
You are at the end of overcoming a big problem with addiction in your life, now God is pushing you in the direction to another struggle that will trigger your personal growth. Everything is happening for a reason, no matter how it turns out there is always something to learn from it. It will all make sense when you figure out what role you are meant to fill in this world.
Work wise I'm in a similar situation, working on a big thing that could finally make my life easier, but every single person I'm dealing with seems to be severely retarded and has no idea what they want.
You have a lot of experience with sales? Have any advice you could give me? I also send loads of emails, but they don't seem to really get people to engage.
Good luck with your work deal, I hope it goes through.
Emails don't really work, getting them on the phone is 100 times better.
That being said, your email is probably too long. Make it as short as humanly possible. And the subject line is by far and away the most important line of the email.
If you want to dm me I can tell you more.
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