Current Professional Situation

First of all, I'd like to apologize for not being able to post much (or at all) recently. Life got extremely busy this summer and I got off track here with the blog. Luckily, it's time to change that though! I plan on posting periodically throughout the school year.

In this post, I'd like to talk a little bit about my current professional situation, since I've now held 3 different jobs since the last time I posted.

I recently started an internship with the Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, where I am working as a Financial Representative. I am thrilled to participate in this internship, which has been recognized as a Top-10 internship program for 13 straight years! I've obtained my licenses for selling life and health insurance in North Carolina, and I can't wait to help people across the state create financial security for themselves and their families! We actually just had training in Raleigh this weekend and I'm diving into the job this week. It will be tough to balance this intensive internship with my heavy course load, but I'm always up for a challenge!

This past summer, I worked an internship with Team Connection, an athletic apparel company located in my hometown of High Point, NC. The internship was great! It was my first internship and I really enjoyed it. I worked on a team of about 10-12 interns, including students from UGA, Wake Forest, and High Point University. As interns, we were responsible for contacting local tennis professionals and assisting them with their event needs, for their tournaments or anything else they may have had going on. Towards the end of the summer, we also worked extremely hard to help promote Team Connection's annual warehouse sale. The warehouse sale wound up being a record-setting event, with sales of over $25,000!

I also worked part time this summer at Gilley's Installation, another local company in High Point. The company is owned by Ray Gilley, the father of one of my good friends and high school baseball teammates, Jeff. I worked as a warehouse attendant, along with 5 or 6 others. Our main client at Gilley's Installation is BB&T. As BB&T continuously brings in new computer and phone equipment for their employees, the old equipment from office locations all over the east coast isshipped to Gilley's Installation and dropped off at the warehouse. My job was to properly retire the equipment, by scanning it in and providing specific details for each piece of equipment (serial number, etc). After that, we skidded the equipment up and shipped it back out to be recycled. This job was manually intensive, which actually appealed a lot to me because I'm a believer that manual labor creates a good work ethic for people my age. The job was a lot of fun because I was working with some close friends and we were able to spend a lot of time together all summer.

I guess that's about it for now, but I just wanted to do a quick recap about what I've been up to as far as my professional life goes. I've got some thoughts on the whole UNC football situation that I plan on sharing soon, whenever I get a little more free time. Be on the lookout for that, but until then, have a good one and I'll talk to you soon!