I have two more days of selling left. This brings me mixed feelings which are basically positive when weighed out.
I am happy to be so close to being done. Though, I am sorta dreading the week ahead because I will get even less sleep for four days (is that possible!?!) while I am doing deliveries. I may have to wake up an hour earlier like Dahnell is doing this week, and I will most certainly have to stay out much later at night Wednesday and Thursday.
I am also a little upset that my opportunity to make "crazy money" is coming to a close. It helps that I am doing so poorly this week in a way, because it makes me feel like the faucet is being turned off.
I also anticipate knowing how many of my weak orders are going to come through, and how many of my stronger orders buy more from me when I come with the books that they ordered.
Most of all I look forward to coming home, but I feel very helpless because I don't have a car. I have a lot of stuff that I brought (thinking that I would have my Jeep on my way home too,) and I am going to need to get a ride to Nashville and then to Gainesville. This need for a ride always means that I have to stay later than necessary, because when I am not ready people who could give me a ride will leave me for the others who are still not ready, and when I am ready I'll have to wait until someone who is able to give me a ride is also ready. No big deal though. I am just expecting to be in Florida by the 18th at the latest.
Posted by David at August 6, 2004 08:11 AMI'm getting here the 18th too!
"I am also a little upset that my opportunity to make "crazy money" is coming to a close." Forgive me if I'm wrong in this. But I can't help but wonder if maybe money is a little more important to you than it should be. Do you think that the idea of making "crazy money" is what really pushed you into SW?
Posted by: Jessica at August 7, 2004 12:45 AMI don't know about this money thing. The importance of money has waxed and waned quite often in my life. I am thinking that the atmosphere that Southwestern creates is making money out to be bigger than it normally is for me. Even the term "crazy money" (which was in quotes for a reason) is something that they use to play up the opportunity that we all have during the summer.
I definately think that I become more preoccupied with money when I am making money that has no set boundaries for how much (or how little) I can make. Southwestern and stock ownership immediately come to mind as examples of this.
I don't know if money is more important to me than it should be right now, but I can easily say that there is a definate, constant emphasis on it while I am in this program.
Posted by: David at August 8, 2004 01:29 AM