I remember looking at it a few hours after they sent it, and felt a longing in my soul to be there with them. I wanted the carefree smile of Collins’ freezingly cold rosy cheeks.
But I couldn’t be.
I was working in the hotel room.
I knew my numbers were low and I had an impossible deal I was trying desperately to close. I had spent hours on the phone with an executive at my company, seeking advice and not wanting there to be ANY question that I was giving this my all.
We came up with a plan that failed. We talked to the customer again, And still came up short-handed. The customer was asking for something they shouldn’t be, but I was so desperate for those numbers that I was trying to defy logic. I was trying to make chicken salad out of chicken shit. I hadn’t slept the night before just thinking about how I would handle the objections that were to come.
My husband called me to tell me where they were going for dinner.
“Can you just bring me back something? I have a long email I need to get out before 6pm EST”
The disappointment in his voice was palpable, but he understood. He always did.
I spent over an hour crafting the perfect email, copying all the important people that would see it, that would know I was doing everything I could to save this deal. That NO MATTER WHAT, I was a company (wo)man.
It wasn’t saved, and I will never be in this adorable Chicago Thanksgiving picture from 2018.
That company fired me less than 6 weeks later.
Don’t ever make yourself loyal to a company who is not loyal to you. Put your family first. We never know when we are going to regret the moments we could have had with them. We never know when we might lose them.
I learned so much in 2019. ❤️
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