DanAskins.com
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Dan Askins Commercial & Investment REALTOR, Landlord for Mini Storage serving the Pinehurst, Southern Pines area of North Carolina.
Description
What does all that stuff mean, really? Who cares what someone has done in the past? What were their motives? What drives them? Who are they really? Resumes are like personal billboards. Nobody puts the fine print in them; just the glossy photos of accomplishment. They are a statement of what I’ve done, rather than who I am. That’s why I have written this page. I want to infuse the whole picture of who I am into my resume.
I have led a checkered past. I struggled with my identity as a man in business. My first “real” job at Burlington was a crucible for me. The heat of a tri-racial—black, white, and Native American—situation coupled with a company against the ropes financially cooked the dross of personal pride and self-sufficiency out of me. Everybody hated everybody and two groups would align against the third, shifting alliances daily. Employees resented management. They especially hated “college people” who tried to tell them how to do things. I provided little incentive to be liked. I was headstrong and prideful. The employees sanded a lot of burrs off of my backside, for which I am thankful.
I left that job without having another one lined up. It was in that position that I asked my wife to marry me. Obviously she married me for love (I’m not too pretty either). While at a Christian retreat, however, I met the Regional Director for a local building supply, who offered me a position in sales. I soon discovered my true calling was in sales and marketing, not in manufacturing. I blossomed into the lead salesman for the store and one of the top three in the whole company, despite being in a small market. Coming from a building background, I was able to connect easily with builders. I generated significant sales on my own without the help of an outside salesman. I soon discovered, however, that I had little patience for what I viewed as inept management. I still had some pride to work on. Much of what I disliked was easily curable, but I did not have the skill with people to get it done. I needed work on refining my personality.
Languages
English
Contact
- danaskins.com
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- Pinehurst North Carolina
- United States 28374
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- +1.9105287003
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