Cliff Hangers: A few Answers.

Helleeew!!

Remember this post I wrote a while back that had all the cliff-hangers? Well, I know

I haven't updated my page in a while with updates on exactly what the events of my life have entailed, but wait no more. It is time.

Let us review, shall? Here is a list of the to-be-continued questions from that post:

• Will she find any career experience and or career opportunities?

• Are there any hopes of her getting her own place while in D.C.?

• Is D.C. her last stop? Or does God have other plans so far as where she will be settling down? And if so, when will she find out?

• And- The Overall Question: What exactly does God have in store for her in His will spiritually and materially; and will she ever reach it all and experience truly overwhelming fullness like carbonated joy?
  

The last post I updated on my journey was about how my sister was agitating me, and I was job searching and aching to move out. Since then, here's what's happened:

I've had a few more less than gracious encounters with her, each one leaving me more frustrated and almost desperately looking for a way out--you should have seen the things I considered. *Shudder*. I've job-searched, career-searched, oh-Lord-please-give-me-a-way-out-from-this-stress searched. I've been up, down, out and about. And I've also been quite blessed :).
Let's start with the first question, shall we?

Thankfully, soon after coming to D.C. I got back into touch with a women's business center that I spoke with while I was back in Atlanta. I've had the opportunity to facilitate & attend a few workshops. I've been networking, and I was also able to meet and speak with the director of the center about my future of helping with them.

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Remember my urge to get into business a while back? Weeellll... I've made a breakthrough that I'm very proud of. And it's not over yet. F.y.i.: my business desire is to be a small-business adviser. A couple of months ago I found out a business owner I knew was looking for a service, specifically, a marketing kit for her business. And guess how I found out? Facebook. Lol. Good stuff. I thought I could do it so I pursued it. Initially I sent her a great sample of a marketing kit, and she was interested. But then because of a few amateur mistakes I lost her interest X( , and in so many words she said --basically--that I needed to get a method to my madness and then my good service would be great, and she was going to find a "more experienced marketing firm" because she was afraid I would take to long to deliver.

You can imagine how I felt. Ughhhh. Like... like such messup!!! BUT----IF there's anything I learned in my Professional Selling course when I was in school, it was overcoming objections. So, I took a couple of nights and days to think and pray on what I should do, and I decided to counter her response with a negotiation proposition. And....a few days later, she responded and agreed to my terms.
I said I would deliver her a custom marketing kit by x amount of days while she continued her search for a "more experience marketing firm" and if she liked it, she'd let me know and would pay the service fee, and if not, then Ok. All of this under no contract. I finished the kit on time and emailed it off. And in a few days I got her response. ...*Sigh*... I GOT IT!! She, and I quote, "LOVE[D] IT, GIRL". LoL. Yes, she added a "girl!!" at the end. That's how happy with it she was. She said she wanted some adjustments made, which is fine, and decided to pay a %50 installment on the fee. I GOT PAID FOR MY FIRST BUSINESS SERVICE!! Yayyy!! The rest is coming after she outlines the adjustments she wants. But I was so excited. I needed that money too. But wait--there's more! Since her company concentrates on marketing consulting, and she has clients that could use my service, she's considering using my service for her clients! I'd be a contractor for her/her clients! We'll see how this goes ;)

So, that answers the first part of question one. "Will she find any career experience..." Yes, I did :).

For the rest of that question, Will she find any career experience and or career opportunities?... See Part two of this post ;)

Toodles!



O.F.C.J.