Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 10/17/18> So much for an easy fall season… I am steadily falling behind.

Back in the late summer you might remember me saying how busy I had been and was looking forward at least for things to slow down a little and be able to enjoy doing more here on steemit. You remember that don't you? Well as it has turned out I am busier than a one armed man in an ass kicking contest and I have been taking some punches.

Only having a couple weeks left in this job has forced me to pull forward some orders that I had waiting for November. I had already made my sales number for the year which ends at the end of this month. So I was padding the books for what is normally a slower month by having customers run down inventory until the first of November so those would count for my 2019 sales numbers.

Since I am out of this job after 10/31/18 I have been working to get those orders moved up and placed so I will get my commissions on them as long as they are shipped by the end of the month.

One customer I met with on Tuesday had a job the wasn’t quite ready and naturally would have fallen in the mid November time frame, but when I told him what was taking place he said that really pissed him off. He reached in his file cabinet and pulled out the quote for that particular job, looked at it, and said “As much as you have helped me over the years I will gladly give you this order today and since this was only phase one of the two phases of the project, go ahead and double it since we don’t really have time to make an exact take off for the materials on phase two.” That sale right there went from $20K to $40K and that was a big surprise.

What made me feel even better was what he said next, “Without your help and expertise we wouldn’t have even been in a position to land this job. The factory guy who will end up taking your territory doesn’t deserve a nickels worth of commission seeing how you did all the work.”

Another appointment set for today called me on Tuesday and said he had to cancel our lunch for today. I told him that I had some news and wanted to give it to him in person but since that wasn’t going to happen I would just tell him while I had him on the phone.

He has a contract to do the landscaping and irrigation on 500 new houses with one builder that is starting in about 3 weeks with the first houses being ready to go. He gave me an order for 250 of the controllers on the project, if he had more room he said he would have taken more but space is at a premium so he bought the most expensive item he could that took up least space for storing.

He then made me an offer to do the design work for the irrigation on those systems. These are simple designs to do and it will be about 10 a week @ $50 a design all told that deal just for the first half of the project will amount to $12,500 for me and I can do those in about an hour for each one.

That will come in handy for sure, as the one job I have been interviewing for has a lower base salary than I would really like but the quarterly bonuses and commissions make it where it would be a pretty good bump over what I have been making annually. So if I take that job the first few months might be a little on the lean side in take him home pay. That $500 a week in design fees would really come in handy.

I am still entertaining offers and putting the word out and seeing just what is available and that job offer wouldn’t start until Jan.2nd so I still have to get through until then if I decide to take it and they aren’t pressing me for a commitment yet either and there is still room for some negotiations.

I know I could make that position work and they have some good product lines they rep and have had most of them for over twenty years so chances are those lines aren’t going anywhere unless they decide to drop them.

Plus, I had already asked the owner of that company if he had any problems with me doing designs on the weekends or evenings and he said, “what you do with your time is your business, not mine.” So that leaves the door wide open on just how much time I want to spend doing designs. I have a sixteen year old boy who has wanted to work and he just might have found him a part time job if I hustle up more design work.

I could teach him the basics in about one weekend and then give him some samples to practice with and let him give it a try. Naturally I would have to check each one but that is just a matter of a couple minutes versus an hour doing the computer work myself. So there is no telling just where this might lead too.

So, that is where I stand right now and there is no telling what today or the rest of the week will bring but I am cautiously optimistic that things will end up better for what has happened. So if my Daily Dose isn’t in your feed when you normally would find it I apologize and the same for how long it is taking me to reply to comments. To steal a line from the theme song of a movie from long ago, “it’s a long ways to go and a short time to get there.”

Until next time,
@sultnpapper

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