Bible Question:
about taking someone to court ... sorry I'm slow ... this is my first day on this forum. Anyway, I was fired because I witnessed to a fellow employee (durring lunch and away from work) but the manager found out because the new Christian was excentric about his new life so much that he told everyone. I believe the manager must have a thorn in his butt about church or Christ. He told the new Christian not to hang around me because "those people will fill your head with crap that will mess your head up". The man who owns the business is a very wealthy man ... close friend to the president of U.S. ... lots of power .. not too likely he will give me the time of day. |
Bible Answer: joel - The empathy of one salesman for another comes out, and I must say this to you, with apologies to the rest of the Forum and Lockman for digressing somewhat from the theme of this Forum. .... Your story touches my heart in a special way, for I began my sales and later, sales management, career as a flop and total failure. In fact I was fired from my first sales job and my manager told me I wasn't "cut out" to be a salesman. I was utterly crushed and defeated. I went home, a dingy little garage apartment, during the middle of the day, got in bed and pulled the sheet over my face and cried like a baby. Later it dawned on me to pray for myself and my family. My prayer produced no measurable results that I could see. For several days I moped around in a daze. One day I saw an ad in the local newspaper that sounded good. An insurance company wanted an "ambitious, self-motivated, aggressive" agent to represent them. I applied. They put me through a battery of aptitude tests. I flunked them all. The test resuls indicated I had no aptitude for the job. A few days later a high-school friend dropped by. He was driving a new Oldsmobile and was dressed in a natty business suit. He was in the insurance business. I told him I'd tried to get a job with an insurance company but they didn't want me because I didn't pass their tests. He told me to talk with his manager. "Does your company give an aptitude test?" I asked. He told me no, they don't believe aptitude tests do any good. So I went to see my friend's manager. He took me on, mainly on the recommendation of my high-school buddy. The first full year with that company I led the entire agency of some 60 men in sales and continued in the insurance business for 40 years. I am now retired, but I still miss the job that I loved and succeeded at, even though I never was "cut out" to be a salesman and didn't have the "aptitude" for it! :-) It would be hard, dear Joel, for anyone to convince me that God didn't answer the prayer I prayed over 40 years ago after I came home, dejected and feeling alone, a worthless and abject failure, crying in my bed because I didn't know what else to do or where to turn. Keep the faith, friend, and keep praying. Trust in the Lord. He will make a way in His good time. You are in my thoughts and prayers. --Hank |