Last summer I got sucked into doing the 'summer sales' thing by Brenan Volpe, and so that's what I did, selling door-to-door for Dish Network and DirecTV. It actually wasn't so bad, I was plenty successful, and although my intent was to save up money to put a down payment on a car and pay for school, little did I know that I would actually be paying for a wedding. Well, I kept doing sales in North Carolina to earn money throughout the rest of our engagement, and here I am doing sales again one more time, this time in Lincoln, Nebraska.
The company that we work for (that's right, Kristin got sucked in too doing office work), Satton Marketing, put us up in a pretty sweet place here for the summer. It is called 'The Links at Lincoln.' We literally live on a golf course, the place is kept nice, we have a nice pool, a full in door gym, pool tables, a hot tub and tanning beds. All for free! You just have to be a resident of the complex. Although we can't live in the comfort of our own, decorated home, this place makes up for it with all of its amenities.
Kristin and I took a road trip out here over the span of two days, stopping in St. Louis, Missouri as our halfway point.
We got settled in and started getting to know the place. Our first weekend here, we stumbled upon downtown and walked around getting to know what makes Lincoln Lincoln. It certainly isn't the logs! Okay, just kidding. The down town is nice actually, it looks pretty neat, and there are plenty of things to do and things to keep us occupied. We tried some of Lincoln's own food and stumbled upon Ali Baba's Gyros (That's pronounced Euro). I had a blast trying to fit that giant thing in my mouth. 
My job is the same-old same-old every day. There are a gazillion small towns out here, and basically what we do is go pick one, find out what kind of cable they have there, and drive there and start knocking. From there on it's kinda like missionary work: Knock, slam! Knock, slam! Knock, slam! Okay, so maybe that's an exaggeration. Most of the people are receptive to us, although there is a lot of “We'll think about it.” Yeah, you'll think about it, and it'll probably take you, oh, maybe two years before you make your decision. Sorry guys, we're not here that long. I do well though, and the Nebraskan people are generally nice.
They give us incentives to try hard and sell lots. Some of them include steak dinners at outback steakhouse if we sell enough customers in a week. Our second week out here we got that incentive, and so the few of us that were still in town all went out and it was pretty neat. I've never really gone wrong with Outback Steakhouse. Our latest incentive was if we sold enough accounts by Friday, we would get to take Saturday off. We got it and were able to have Saturday off, and while all the boys went down to Kansas City, Kristin and I went over to Omaha and spent the day there. It was actually our six month anniversary!
