Training

Hello my Dear Sisters,Some of you have been asking me about my new job. Well I am finally getting around to it. Tuesday was my first training day which got off to a bumpy start. After having a near drought all summer, Mother Nature decided to rectify the situation Tuesday, Most of you have heard me complain about the Houston Frwys before, but in the rain they are especially horrendous. Normally where I was going would be about a half hour drive. Still would not have been too bad except for the fact, that it was raining so hard I could not see the signs. So when it came to the 610 split where it goes east or west I took east when I should have gone west. Went totally out of my way, and had to go way done to turn around. Then bumper to bumper traffic till I finally got there. Other people were late so I did not feel too badly.The training itself went great. Learned a lot about electricity and such. Also that Houston is one of the most polluted cities in the nation and that it is the burning of coal and such that the power companies burn is the biggest polluter, not the cars. Of course the cars add too. Green Mountain Energy has been in business since 1997, but it wasn’t till 2001 with the deregulation in the Houston area that they really took off. Before that you had no choice. Your power company was Houston Lighting and Power, which is now Reliant. So now people can shop for the best rates and such. Green Mountain is competitive along with being clean renewable energy.So the rest of the training is in the field. Wednesday they put me with a girl right in my neighborhood. It was good to see her in action and to see how she sells it. They want to put you with there best sales people so you can learn. I learned a lot from her. Then on Thursday another fiasco on the Frws. Another rainy day. Where I was supposed to go was at least an hour on a good day. Bumper to bumper traffic till I got on the other side of downtown. Then the google map I had told me to get off at 40b. WRONG. So I got lost for about 15 minutes. Finally got there. Looked around, saw the blue table where the sales person was supposed to be, nobody there. I called the manager and he said wait a minute, then looked up the schedule. Come to find out it was the persons day off. I WAS PISSED. Asked me if I wanted to come back there the next day and I said NO! I was not going back there. So they put me with someone else that was a little closer to my house. That was fine and I learned a few things from her. Sunday I am with another person. I hope it goes well. Then next week I am on my own. I plan to take the best from all these people and make my own presentation.Well that is about it for now. It got off to a rocky start, but I am optimistic about this working for me. I pray that it does. I need your prayers also. I sure would appreciate it.I will keep you posted. Love and hugs,Anita