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in #life7 years ago

Life has its particular ways of teaching us

In this publication I want to mention something that has made me not only change the panorama of my life, but expand it.

At no time should I bore you with stories of suffering or anything like that, but rather I want to highlight the positive aspects of the change, and how my life has benefited from the forced migration from my native country.



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Brief summary of my academic background:

I am basically a professional in nursing, medicine and a graduate in teaching. At the end of 2007 I took a course blockchain and cryptomedas, first inspired by trading, but then the study of this led me to know the alternative currencies among them Steem, from there to Steemit was a single step, which has been followed by many more.

I make this mention of my academic training, because what I will explain below has nothing to do with what I learned at university, however, reality leads one down paths often unimagined.

On July 31, 2018 I was stamping my passport at the Colombian-Venezuelan border to settle in the Colombian capital, Bogotá, a city where I stay and which has given me options. The fact that I was not able to legalize and apostille my papers in Venezuela, has allowed me to work in other areas, outside the health sector, in which I had never worked.

In this case is the Sales Sector, I had to start from scratch, not only because I didn't know anything about selling but also I didn't know about the products I had to sell. What a problem this is, selling something you don't know... For my part I saw it as an opportunity to know something, a Situation to solve.

I was hired (thanks to the recommendation of a Colombian friend) by a distributor of PVC products, i.e. plastic. Basically we distribute everything that is pipe, accessories and taps, our clients are warehouses and hardware stores in general.

In this point I must delimit the following: I went to the interview with my current boss, obviously, realizing that I had no sales experience, she was not motivated to hire me. Before me, 3 people were called to fill the position, of which they did not remain in the position but a few weeks each, so I was called, 1 month after the interview, to try with me, I was literally the last option.

I started to work with this distributor on October 15, 2018, I will be one year old, until now I am the salesman who has lasted the longest, I have never been absent nor have I ever asked for a permit.

Here began for me a continuous process of learning, because I said to myself:

I don't know how to sell but I have to, I have to offer products that I don't know to someone who does.

This is when I tell you that this process of permanent learning began, since it was necessary to study the products, the company for which I was hired did not have a catalogue, so I invested many hours in the creation of one. It not only helped me to collaborate with the company, but it was also a way to facilitate the process of getting to know these products and becoming familiar with them, quality, brands, different models, everything that had to do with them.

In this process of creating the catalogue, I also learned to use a design page, which I didn't know either. In general, although it was a period of hard work, it was also a period of knowledge acquisition.

I said to myself:

Well, you know the products, the other important aspect here is to know how to reach the customers, offer them the product, make them buy from you, trust you

Thanks to the fact that there are currently many tools on the Internet, watch videos, tutorials and other options for education, I used everything I could to enter this world of sales, business.

It is this other important point of my life gain, which has been propitiated by having left the country and being outside the comfort zone, in this opportunity learning to sell is so far a great contribution that I have had to my life, and not the university gave it to me, but life and its circumstances.

A greater economic stability in the future now I see more related to the sector of sales, trade, business, than to my profession.

I am not saying with this that I do not plan to practice, I am still in the process of legalizing my professional roles, however the following, to generate my economic stability through medicine I must be present in body 48 hours a day, but a good system, business, sales, automating processes, allows me to continue generating income even without the need to be in body present.

And it is that for my profession it is also necessary to know and to know the sales process, since this facilitates me to obtain better labor contracts, that generate a better income to me to be able to invest it in some business.

I have seen options, some related to the health field, others not, but my vision and life mission have taken a drastic turn from this experience that has been teaching me for almost a year. The best thing is that beyond being able to have a better condition and standard of living, is that I can help many through better economic stability and also through publications like this, giving tools to move forward.

For now, I say goodbye, I hope you have been able to learn something from this short life experience.

I will continue to share with you how little or how much I have learned, I hope it will be of benefit to anyone who passes through this publication.

I invite you to be part of


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