Job Description

Normally, I wouldn't discuss my job on here. I shouldn't, but I figure I can do it in a sort of roundabout way. For those who don't know (not like anyone other than friends or family are reading my blog), I'm a claims adjuster. Not the most glamourous career in the world, but it was the highest-paying interesting job I could find. And somehow obtain.
Adam tells everyone my job is as an escort. He's just jealous. In this industry, it's very little what you know and a lot more who you know. There is a lot of marketing (i.e. selling yourself) and networking. In other words: lunching, golfing and sitting in booths at hockey games drinking.
So yesterday, I go for a 2-hour long lunch (marketing) and then an hour and a half at the Auto Show (networking). All on company time. It's not often I get to do stuff like this, but it's the fact that I do get to do stuff like this that makes me work harder when I'm NOT doing stuff like this. We do work our butts off and put in more hours on some days than most people don't so this kind of stuff is a little pay-off, once in a while. Although when I told my boss that I'd be gone all afternoon, his reply was something along the lines of "I don't care - I'm gone too" and he walked off with his golf clubs in tow.
The Auto Show was pretty cool - I'd never been before, and I love all kinds of cars so for me it was pretty darn exciting. I freaked out when I saw the Lotus Elise and wish we could've spent a little time alone, but that's ok. I saw her. AND the new Shelby. Yeah, that's right guys - there's a new one. Not as sweet as Nicolas Cage's baby in Gone In 60 Seconds (Eleanor?), but still pretty hot. ~sigh~