  Booyah... Today was an awesome day indeed. We had and inhouse sales contest for all the sales people. The office was set up with a beach motif,and as I said this am, we got to dress casual. It was hilarious when the other female sales gal showed up in the same coral colored capris I had on.
We are both tall for gals, and they kept teasing us we looked like sister's today, I laughed quietly inside to myself. We broke off into 3 teams, and drew categories out of a hat and each team had to sell an ad for that category. It started off slow for everyone and really slow for me, I don't know many of the accounts being the new girl. One team sold the first two ads, and got the first two prizes. The team that sold each of the first 4 ads got to pop a balloon and won the prize inside. They won a night at Mohegan Sun's Hotel, and $50. I was getting flustered, so I ate a snack, had some caffeine and refined my approach. I ended up selling one right before lunch, we won a lottery ticket. We ate a good lunch and then I went back to it and within a few minutes I had another one.
This time we won $50. I went right back to it, I had the pitch down I had the angle down, I was back to be a selling machine like I was at my old company. I sold 2 more in the next hour, I was doing great. At the end of the day as a group all 8 of us had sold a total of 10 ads, I sold 5 of them myself.
I know it is mostly a male traight, but I really think I thrive on competition to really bring out my best. I became my bosses star today she told me. I laughed when they said "hey the new girl showed them up today". They have no idea how new of a girl I really am. I really enjoyed being able to excel again at work, today showed me my gift for sales is inside of me. It doesn't matter that I am not a guy, I can sell no matter what. I was starting to worry that I couldn't sell as well as a woman, I changed my mind today.
I still have a long battle ahead of me in getting to where I once was in my old profession, but I assure you I will be there once again. I am working 2x as hard as the other reps, they are doing about 12 calls a day, I try to do a min of 20 visits and 12 calls a day. I need to get my territory moving, the last two reps let it slide, and neither stayed long at all.
I know I won't see immediate results for my hard work, but it will pay off down the road, it always does. Today was a nice day indeed, each day I am starting to feel like I really do fit in there more and more. Slowly the old scars from my last career are healing, they will never be fully gone, but with each day they hurt a bit less. G'nite, love to all. 
