Man a ton has changed since I last posted, quick update, I am now in Jacksonville, Florida, and currently waiting for Fay to get out of the area which she just doesn't seem to want to do, my second tropical storm since being down here, but I did get to stay home today due to the winds up to 60 mph and tons of rain and flooding (Melbourne to the far south of me got 25" of rain!), so far no serious problems for me, and hoping it stays that way.
So, I am now the only salesman for CastCrete for the entire Jacksonville and St. Augustine areas. I got supper lucky, I was only supposed to be promoted to Assistant Branch manager and keep doing the same stuff I was as a Trainee, but I came back from my brother's high school graduation to find out the salesman up here wanted to "chase the south Florida girls" and took a job in West Palm Beach and no one else in the area wanted to move so the job was offered to me. I didn't think I'd have a salesman opportunity for at least 3 years so to get one after only a year was amazing, definitely a huge blessing. I got a pretty nice apartment in Ponte Vedra Beach at an ok rate, just miles from the beach even though I haven't been there yet in the two months I've been here. The job is pretty tough and i have to drive a lot, did 802 miles just last week but its all in my Camry and its very unlikely I'll have to drive a semi again although I still have my license. Not a whole lot of work for me to sell to up here as most of the work is stick frame, and for the first time in my life I get the symbolism of the three little pigs-all these years I thought the wolf was just a wolf. Luckily, my company makes the best product in the state which means i have a lot of loyal customers already and its easy to get people to buy cause they aren't going to buy because of my sales skills but more because of the product I can provide them with.
Found a really different church in Ponte Vedra called Christ the Redeemer, they are a Convergence church which combines sacramental, evangelical, and charismatic influences into their service and is unlike anything I've been to before, which typically I've stayed away from the sacramental type churches, but here I like the blend of everything. They also just started a young adult group that only meets 1-2 times a month which I don't like but it's better then nothing and I've started to meet a lot of the people my age which has been great. Theres also a group from the church called Salt Tribe which has a Wednesday evening church service at the University of North Florida which I am thinking of getting involved with.
Well thats pretty much it, I've been a work-a-holic these last two months and am just now trying to start doing more things with the church and even found some guys to play basketball with on Saturday mornings.
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