Posted by
Jay Adler Comment on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 3:36:43 AM
My first big job came about when a Madison Avenue employment agency in 1973 heard me doing my radio spot in New York entitled The Wandering Correspondent Man About Town. I was featured on two small stations and I would run around New York reviewing restaurants, movies and creating music reviews. The employment agent contacted me and told me about the big money I could make in Sales. He arranged a sales position for me with Smith Corona. I underwent massive sales training and called on clients and learned. We must stop here and mention that my family are all full blooded Hungarians threaded back to the original Magyar nomadic tribe and boy did they have the wanderlust. From 1974 straight until 1979 I would work for several business machines companies and even became a sales manger for a time. The end, in 1979 was the first time as a high powered, trained, direct salesman I was out of a job and had trouble finding one. I believe the economy was in flux but I was trained never to blame the economy for your failures ie. sales, job interviews, debt. So one day I put on my best suit and cologned up and went to the corner of 57Street and Third Avenue and pointed my self and my briefcase full of resumes downtown toward the Empire State Building on 34Street. I went to every building and believe me there was some kind of climate warming then because it was 90 degrees in New York as usual in the summer. We had no War on Terror then, you just walked into smiles in every office. It took me until I got to the Empire State where I got a lead and landed a job with the illustrious Burns International Security Services as Sales Representative. The money I made working for this name company was more than I ever saw. Mr. Obama is spoon feeding people who do not want to leave their TVs and stay on unenjoyment, or give up which in life you should never do, or blame Mr. Obama,or say there are no jobs. If you maintain your standards and blame everybody else and the downturn, you are right, you will never get a job. Believe me there are plenty of jobs out there but you will not find them in your house. I suggest that Obama throwing money at companies will not be the answer. The American spirit and your own initiative will find you a job and maybe you will have to advance to make your money. My mother came to this country with $80 and a bag of grapefruits. Today there is an Olympic size swimming pool and a health club in her condominium. She worked in America as a French teacher and a court interpreter and married a Park Avenue Attorney. You should have seen the "economy" she had in war torn Europe. Jay R