GRANT VANDERBURG
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I've suddenly become their pride jewel in the company. When I come in, they instantly gather around me and quickly introduce me to people in the room at "future" senator. You've made an impression on the senior marketing managers, especially Art and Mita. I'm trying my best to get in close to them, perhaps be the son they always wish they had! I hear little snippets from them saying things like " i have alot of ambition and them being really proud of me."
I met another person there who has a good drive. His name is Marcus and hes a young politician who looks like he needs help on putting his dream together. On a recent meeting, we all discussed about what our dreams are and I carefully listened to what everyone had to say. That particular question would tell me exactly what peoples intentions are and what they have in their hearts. Marcus didn't disappoint, he had an idea of making a shelter for homeless people since we have alot of problems with that right now. I had an idea to make a self sustaining community that helps the homeless with shelter, food and training them simple tasks within the facility to work on their social and work skills. Perhaps even make a deal with agencies on getting them jobs outside of the facility to help them back on their feet with a job! We need to understand the situation of the homeless and the shelters right now. I gave him some homework, to get in contact with the shelters and see exactly what they do to provide as well as information on turn overs on how many they help and how many stay where they are. Either way, he's a great partner! He may not work "under" you, but the partnership will make it stronger on both ends. When he runs, he will have our support and when I run for office, I know I will have his and his company. I also heard Juanitas dream, the person who brought you in and will be getting a cut of the expenses from everything your putting together. With her money, she wants to sponsor 10 girls from educating them young all the way to college. Supporting them on financial needs as well as programs that help better themselves for the future! I took Juanita to the side to tell her how thankful I was to be under her and will do everything in my powers to make her dream come true. Since I'm serious about putting this together, I know that success and money will follow if we keep our intentions pure. She was very thankful and I could feel it. I'll remember that feeling, always. I just a had meeting at World Financial Group/ Trans America for a possible part time job. The part time job isn't a choice for additional income, in fact it's an opportunity for me to progress through my political journey. The group of people that work within the bussiness all have different ties in professions. We have people who are well diversed with realty, doctors, lawyers, public speakers and the list goes on.
If I take this job and train, I can understand the financial world and actually help people who are less fortunate through the world of finances. My friend Colin reminded me one evening that when I finally decide to run for office, it's going to take money. I told him I would worry about it when I get there but until then, I wanted to get the support of the people and be known from word of mouth or attend rallys and volunteer work. However, I find it interesting how this opportunity was laid out in front of me. The morals of the company seems good, but it's essentially a pyramid scheme on gaining money from others. I often thought that the pyramid scheme had a negative connotation, but it's only negative if you don't give it a purpose. I may be put into the line of helping privileged investors and if i can build a rapport between them and my political views, I may have investors in line for donations when I run for office! Not only that, but if I'm successful with the job I'll have additional funds to put into savings and our home. I wont have to quit my original job, in fact. I wanted to keep it for safe of mind, so the company is asking that i put in 5 -15 hours a week into the office as well as training time, I can see if it all works out. I dont lose out of anything, except for the fee that I have to take the test and licensing. Now this isn't the first meeting I've attended that had the same concept, but at the times that I had interviews for I was in need of a stable income just to pay for bills. Now that I'm comfortable with our income, I have more to gain from this than anything. I no doubt will have people working under me, that way I'll be able to make more money. But if i can put into the view to why they would take this part time risk with me, that it can help with their own agenda to our future partnership. I want to speak with Shawn in particular, he has the drive and passion to help the native american community, but doesn't know where to start. If he goes through this with me, he will not only gain money to help him with his cause and belief, but he'll be able to hire more people for his team that follow the same cause as him. They gain funds for their community project, i gain money from them to continue my political career and we form a coalition on helping each other unite others! The same practice will go to the others that I feel have a political or strong belief that could make a difference with the community. I had a business meeting with the mayor of Olympus District. The culture and overall feeling in there is infectious with it's unity and positive atmosphere. While in the Seattle area, I lucked out by meeting with a very close friend from highschool. Miles showed me around the community and showed me exactly what the locals like to do.
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