A Day in the Life of a New Metal Finishing Salesman #1

I started my job two months ago as a salesman of new and used metal finishing equipment.  I graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a German Language degree in 2005. What have I been doing with myself since graduation, one might ask themselves?  I did too...I was a bartender, and it was time for something new.

I decided to work for my cousin (by marriage, not by blood) at his warehouse in my hometown in the foothills of NC. I packed up from Hillsborough, NC and moved back in with the parents. (I am currently house hunting).  But I digress.  Imagine my surprise when I was asked to prepare a rectifier for shipment my second day at the warehouse.  My first question was, "What's a rectifier?"  My second questions were, "Where is it, and can you point it out to me?"  (I couldn't believe they trusted me to maneuver that beast of machinery around the floor with only one day of forklift training under my belt.)  I accomplished the mission with no broken bones or rectifiers.

Fast forward two months-

I have taken an introduction to plating course and have the certificate to prove it...I'm thinking I will frame it and hang it beside my diploma.  But I digress yet again.  Today I got up at 5:30am and toured three plating companies.  I finally got to see those beastly rectifiers turned on and working.  Wow, what a site!  I was amazed, not only by plugged in rectifiers, but by the total picture. Robotics moving the racks, EXPERIENCED forklifters going 30mph (in reverse, uphill), the product coming out of the final rinse, etc... What a day in the life of a new metal finishing salesman!