One thing I love about my job is that I get to interact with people from around the world every day. Actually knowing people from other parts of the globe has me learning Cockney rhyming slang, getting birthday cards from Mexico, and hearing how the surfing is in Portugal.
This week has been especially exciting and international for me. Over the weekend, our distributors from the Czech Republic and Portugal flew in for meetings. On Monday evening I found myself having dinner with two Americans, a German guy who lives in France, two Czech guys, and 2 Portuguese guys. On Tuesday I spent time on the phone with people from Bermuda, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, and Chile. On Wednesday I'll be in meetings all day with our Mexican distributors, conducting business in Spanish. On Thursday I'll be flying to Salt Lake City for more meetings with our Mexican friends and our colleagues in Utah. On Friday it'll be back to English and some serious resting.
I'm so excited to get to meet the people I've been e-mailing for eight months and put names to faces. I am so excited to get to chat with them in Spanish, and learn more about how we do business. I'm so new to all of this still that I just love to soak up everything I can. I feel like the moron who said on his resume's cover sheet, "I am a wedge with a sponge taped to it. My purpose is to wedge myself into someone's door to absorb as much as possible." Not a wedge-shaped sponge. A wedge that has a sponge TAPED to it. What.
In any case, I'm being very productive, important, and international this week. Work's been going really well, and I'm finally falling into and feeling comfortable in my first job. It's taken so long, but things are finally pretty awesome. Yay for my professional life!
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