Good evening friends.

We hope everyone had and is still having a great weekend.  Day 189 here in Puerto Rico.  Spoke to some ELS friends recently that are planning a trip here next year which is always nice to hear.  It will be great to see them.

So tonight I want to share a funny story with you.  Why not ?  When i first got to the Island I was looking into some finance jobs being that was my background.  And believe it or not Wall Street does have some presence here but not really applicable to the kind of trading I used to do.  So i told Vanessa I am going to speak to some insurance companies and maybe sell life insurance.  It was something i always had in the back of my head since my father died when he was 46 years old with 6 kids and no life insurance policy.  To his defense, it was not as common as it is today for all the sighs that must have just triggered.

Anyway, moving a long.  I went to interview with one of the big Insurance Companies we all know, I won’t say the name in case anyone might know people at this particular agency.  Point is I had several interviews and they went really well. I was finally asked to come back and meet the gentleman who ran the agency, very nice guy.  So we finally we meet and he had been brought up to speed about me from the other interviewers.  He looks over my resume and kind of looks he wanted some more perspective on what is going on here.

So he says; “Let me get this straight, you don’t speak Spanish, you have No contacts in Puerto Rico, if you got any appointments, you don’t know your way around Puerto Rico to even get to them, you have no car, and lastly you’ve never sold insurance, is that correct ?”  I said; “Yes sir, that is correct”

The man was dumbfounded. He took his glasses off and started rubbing his eyes. Then he was blinking really hard like when you are trying to clear away blurriness.  Next thing I know, he kind of sits back in chair and starts looking around the room. This was kind of odd to me because we both knew it was only the two of us in the room. At this point it was clear to me that this man was literally trying to figure out if he was inside of a dream, or if there really was a complete lunatic sitting across from him at his desk.  I started going through the scenarios that were coming up next.  He was either going to pass out from shock, laugh in my face, or call security.  Fortunately he was graceful about and said; “Why don’t you try something easier like winning the lottery?”

Friends from there, Vanessa and I agreed selling insurance in Puerto Rico was not the right fit.  I laugh every time I think about that last conversation with that gentleman.

In any event, its just a funny story to tell and look back on.  #PointlessInformation

Signing off from Puerto Rico, Scott Smith for Sammy & Family.