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OT: If you are bright enough can you do anything?
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Neil924  



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 4:00 am    Post subject: OT: If you are bright enough can you do anything? Reply with quote

I have been offered a sales job at www.westartfurnishings.ca
I haven't had any previous interest in furniture, but I'm sure just learning about their stock and company history will be enough. Here are my questions; Can a driver, drive everything? Can a pilot, fly everything? And can a salesman sell everything?
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 4:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes. Yes, and yes.

In all the cases above, it is simply a matter of adjusting to the new environmet around you. All the basic principles and laws remain the same.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 6:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stu2j wrote:
Yes. Yes, and yes.

In all the cases above, it is simply a matter of adjusting to the new environmet around you. All the basic principles and laws remain the same.


really well then I would love to see a crop duster pilot plop down into a B2 bomber and take off fly for an hour and then land.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 6:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stu2j wrote:
adjusting to the new environmet around you.


It might take some time, is what I got out of this fragment.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 7:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In my opinion furniture sells itself. It is not the type of item that you really need to be convinced to buy. Either you need a new couch or you don't. The main selling points for furniture are price and look. If you are trying to sell high priced ugly furniture you are screwed.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 7:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Im worken all the time too Take this october for example I worked 124 hours at night and construction[drywall] during the day..... yea you can do it furniture does sell itself though you do have to fit the part of salesperson for that to happen.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 8:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

81turbo wrote:
If you are trying to sell high priced ugly furniture you are screwed.


Did you see the pictures in the link???
Folks, I might be screwed.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 8:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Joes924Racer wrote:
you do have to fit the part of salesperson for that to happen.


I have been selling for a few years now, although my age or there lack of may be a problem. {22ans}
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 10:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have been in sales before if you can identify the customers needs and convience them that your product, services, and personality fit their needs you can sell just about anything. Right now I run a shipping facility. My job is to get product from point A to point B as cheaply and efficiently as possibly. It wouldn't matter to me if it was shoes or Porsche parts. Although Porsche parts would be more fun.

Liz you could probably learn to land a B2 in optimal conditions. Automated approach and landing systems are commom on large comercial aricraft and I am sure the military has them too. Its probably just a matter of learning how to set the computer on a B2. The trick is becomming familiar with the aircraft and what to do if the suititation is compromissed. Remember the crop dusting pilot who flew the F16 and destroyed the aliens in Independance Day? Then again he wasn't Canadian. Hehehehe just kidding.

We are only limited by our abilities and experience.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 10:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey, watch that! The top Allied Ace in WWW1 was a Canadian, Billy Bishop.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 10:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dwak wrote:
Hey, watch that! The top Allied Ace in WWW1 was a Canadian, Billy Bishop.

dwak


WWW1 I am not familiar with that one. Must have been a Canadian thing or maybe just an extra W? Hehehe just kidding.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 11:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

"We are only limited by our abilities and experience."

Very well said Roger! I would add to that our willingness to adapt.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 11:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lizard wrote:
Stu2j wrote:
Yes. Yes, and yes.

In all the cases above, it is simply a matter of adjusting to the new environmet around you. All the basic principles and laws remain the same.


really well then I would love to see a crop duster pilot plop down into a B2 bomber and take off fly for an hour and then land.


When it comes down to SKILLS, my money is on the crop duster flying the B2. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to fly a computer.. Now put a B2 bomber pilot in a crop duster... there's going to be a problem. Basics FIRST! And I think the average "crop duster" pilot has been around. Ask him what he did BEFORE that job! Heli pilot in Nam, F-14 pilot in Desert Storm, B-17 bomber dropping nukes over Japan, GET my point? I don't get the comparo.. If you set your mind to something, ANYTHING can be accomplished!

Neil, if it feels right, GO FOR IT! Best of luck!
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 11:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dont know if you get HBO in N.S. ,but tonight @ 10:30 they are showing " BORN RICH " . a documentary made by the aire to the johnson+johnson pharmacueticals empire . he'll be interviewing his " Friends " about what its like to be super-duper rich and young in todays society . maybe they'll have some useful carreer advice . I'll tell you , I dont think I would have survived, my 21st birthday, had I inherited 100 million dollars . what do you dream about or aspire to , when you can buy anything on the planet ?

http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/born_rich/synopsis.html
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 12:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

100M won't buy you "anything". Not an island, not the city you grew up in and certianly not the intelligence or foresight required to keep yourself safe.
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