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Name: Joshua
Country: United States
State: Kansas
Metro: Manhattan
Gender: Male
Interests: My relationship with Jesus. Being a friend. Using my earthly resources wisely. My family. My cousins in OH. Sports.
Expertise: Computers, Being a student, working too much.
Occupation: Computer related
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Member Since:
7/1/2005
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| Sorry for the lack of any updates.
I accepted GTM's job offer. I will be their inventory analyst/guru.
The hourly wage difference was only $0.38.
GTM offered me 16 days vacation/year along with 6 paid holidays (6 more vacation days than WM).
The biggest reasons I took GTM's job:
1. GTM offers quite the entrepreneurial opportunity. They are growing 25-40% (40% projected this year) consistently and are trying to become a dominant player nationally. This seems like a very good time to get in on it. Maybe we will strike it big or maybe we will fail, but that is a chance I am excited to take. I will get to do the analysis and help set up our first distribution center (DC) in China. That may involve traveling to China in the next 1-3 years.
2. The relationships I have in Manhattan (and the rest of KS) are a big deal to me. These relationships would be forever changed if I moved to AR. Can one put a price on relationships? With the knowledge that God has provided me through the environment I grew up in, I must not.
Thus I will be living in Manhattan for awhile. I plan to move back home for an undetermined amount of time so that I can save up some money to buy a house (Throwing $$$ away on rent drives me nuts!).
There were other factors in my decision, but they were small in comparison to this. I believe that this is the decision Christ led me to even though it has been unpopular with many of my profs and friends.
Well, it is time I started practicing (and finished writing) and memorizing my graduation speech! Because, yes, I was selected to be the student commencement speaker. Still not sure if that means I am the valedictorian? They don't give that title to anyone at K-State. Maybe that is only a high school deal?
This will be a much bigger graduation than just graduating as a homeschooler. It should be fun. I love giving speeches. You get to entertain, you have control, you get to read the audience and adapt to them - it is sweet.
Ttfn.
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| GTM made me an offer. I have until Wednesday to discern God's will for my future (at least the next year or two).
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| Lockheed chose not to extend an offer.
I didn't win a senior class award I thought I would at school.
GTM wasn't prepared to make an offer today (we are going through changes in our HR dept. so I spoke with the company president who didn't know what was going on (in this particular matter)). I'll see what I can drum up within the next week. Otherwise it looks like I'll be working at Walmart in Bentonville, AR.
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| And Wal-Mart made me a job offer. That was quick. Now I have a week to decide.
Starting pay of ~$45k for their trainee position. Moving into a management role after 6 months (pay approx: $55-59,000)
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| My Walmart visit was interesting. I ate a $25 meal at the Olive Garden Sunday night when I arrived in Bentonville, AR (Walmart will reimburse the cost of the meal).
I did 2 - 1 hour interviews in the morning, then went to my benefits meeting. At the benefits meeting, I started to feel like vomiting. So I excused myself to the restroom. I didn't make the toilets, so I threw up my $25 meal in the sink. It kind of splashed up back onto my suit, shoes and tie, but I was able to clean most of it up. Thankfully, nobody was in the restroom. I then went and ate lunch with my recruiters. I had fresh pineapple, fresh strawberries and a water. I went to my next hour interview, but after that, I had to make another visit to the restroom. My $4.13 lunch ended up in the toilet (better than the sink). I then went on my area tour. I was with 2 other Walmart candidates and the driver in a 15 passenger van. About an hour into my 2 hour tour, I started to feel bad again. (This is neat, but gross). I threw up (It was only water and some fruit pieces from lunch), but contained it all in my mouth and was able to swallow it so as to not make a scene. I didn't know it was possible to swallow my vomit because usually the gag reflex is still too strong.
Well, best as I can tell, it was food poisoning from dinner. It wasn't stress from the interviews. They were easy. I have done so many interviews now that I could do them in my sleep. I drank a 24oz vault soda to help keep me awake for my long (5 hour) drive home and kept that down just fine. I also kept dinner down fine last night.
I was nominated by a faculty member to be the commencement speaker for the college of business. I had to submit a proposed speech outline to compete with the other nominees. I found out yesterday that I was selected to speak. I don't know if that makes me the valedictorian, but it is an honor.
The interesting part about this is that I told the dean at the end of the last semester that I would be the commencement speaker in the spring. I'm not sure why. And I had no idea how to go about becoming the commencement speaker. Heh.
P.S. The interviews went really well. I should be getting a job offer from Walmart in the next week.
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