It's days like today...

It's days like today that I would love to just sit back with a martini. I won't of course, but it can't hurt to wish.

Had a pounding headache since last night. Actually, it had gone away by morning, but came back at full strength a couple hours into work.

Ahhh the problems. I always get left with tasks to "take care of..." but when it comes to the actual "solving the problem" part, it's never something that I can solely decide or sign off on... so usually the original problem has to go back to the original person and the process begins again. Why even bother going through me?

Today, I brought the new salesgirl to meet some of my customers. I think it went alright. I'm just glad that I won't have to keep doing sales anymore. I thought I could take on 2 people's worth of work to save paying out an extra salary we can't quite afford... you know... do all the secretarial crap in the morning, and then run sales in the afternoon, but I was wrong. It worked out for a while, but upon further analysis, the time I have in a day divided by 2 is simply not enough to do a satisfactory job either way. I could never "completely finish" my office things before I had to leave for sales... and when I did my sales, I never spent as much time BSing with the customers as I should. You know... mebbe 30% of why salon stylists decide to buy your brand of hair product is because they like the product itself, but 70% of doing business with you is because they like you. I never was able to take the time to build that relationship with em... which I'm sure led to many missed opportunities.

...this all leads to one conclusion. this country sux. I'm praying praying praying that some day we will get the opportunity to get out of here cuz I will feel forever guilty if I have to raise my child here when I know there are so many better places out there.