This might come as a shock to some but I have no idea what I'm doing. I guess my biggest fear is that I'll hit save, or submit, or publish post at the wrong time and my ignorance will be permanently displayed for the world to see. I know, suggesting that the 'world' is going to read my blog might be a bit presumptious of me but who knows. I mean it's got to be somewhat intriguing to find out what goes through a person's mind as they're composing their first blog with no rhyme or reason to the design of their page, their thoughts, no target audience - nothing. Just a man up well past his bedtime trying to figure this mess out. I've already missed Nancy Grace, Fantasy Football ended long ago, the retail real estate market is in the toilet, my kids are asleep (for now) and my wife finally stopped looking over my shoulder so now I'm left alone with my thoughts and frankly, I'm getting lonely. I guess the worst part is that if I go back and read the sylabus or navigate through the class links I would probably find spelled out in plain English exactly what I'm supposed to be doing here. And when I get to that point I'll come back and do what was supposed to be done the first time. I've heard there's something to be said for practice so we'll call this practice. I could always tell you all about me, who I am, how I got here, what my goals are and all that mess but we've got 2 years to look forward to so I'm sure at some point it'll be an assignment so for now I'll spare you the details. For the sake of conversation, with myself, I'll tell you that I'm a native of Hickory and have lived here my whole life. I did spend about 6 years at Western Carolina in Cullowhee, NC about 2.5 hours west but I came back and I'm still here. I graduated with degree in Criminal Justice and just didn't find that job market too appealing so I went back to Lenoir Rhyne to pursue an accounting degree. I spent about 6 years working for a local venture capital firm then accepted an offer to go to work at IFH as controller. Institution Food House is a local food distributor for those of you not local to Hickory (I keep forgetting I have a global audience). After a couple years there and way too many 70-80 hour work weeks I was recruited by a wholly owned subsidiary of the firm I started with to come work exclusively for them in commercial real estate. Now I make my living working with primarily national retailers and developers on acquisitions and dispositions in addition to the normal financial reporting associated with our company. We do a lot of site selection work for Walgreen's and Bojangle's so if you've recently been negatively affected by either of them locally, it's probably my fault. I would get into the market, where it's been and where it's going but at this point that might even put me to sleep - or maybe just depress me into a coma. Thanks for reading and I do apologize if you've continued reading in an effort to find some substance or maybe even learn something you didn't know. If nothing else, at least you can take comfort in knowing that this is my very first blog and there is considerable room for improvement so watch out ;o)
Monday, February 2, 2009
Blogging Blind
This might come as a shock to some but I have no idea what I'm doing. I guess my biggest fear is that I'll hit save, or submit, or publish post at the wrong time and my ignorance will be permanently displayed for the world to see. I know, suggesting that the 'world' is going to read my blog might be a bit presumptious of me but who knows. I mean it's got to be somewhat intriguing to find out what goes through a person's mind as they're composing their first blog with no rhyme or reason to the design of their page, their thoughts, no target audience - nothing. Just a man up well past his bedtime trying to figure this mess out. I've already missed Nancy Grace, Fantasy Football ended long ago, the retail real estate market is in the toilet, my kids are asleep (for now) and my wife finally stopped looking over my shoulder so now I'm left alone with my thoughts and frankly, I'm getting lonely. I guess the worst part is that if I go back and read the sylabus or navigate through the class links I would probably find spelled out in plain English exactly what I'm supposed to be doing here. And when I get to that point I'll come back and do what was supposed to be done the first time. I've heard there's something to be said for practice so we'll call this practice. I could always tell you all about me, who I am, how I got here, what my goals are and all that mess but we've got 2 years to look forward to so I'm sure at some point it'll be an assignment so for now I'll spare you the details. For the sake of conversation, with myself, I'll tell you that I'm a native of Hickory and have lived here my whole life. I did spend about 6 years at Western Carolina in Cullowhee, NC about 2.5 hours west but I came back and I'm still here. I graduated with degree in Criminal Justice and just didn't find that job market too appealing so I went back to Lenoir Rhyne to pursue an accounting degree. I spent about 6 years working for a local venture capital firm then accepted an offer to go to work at IFH as controller. Institution Food House is a local food distributor for those of you not local to Hickory (I keep forgetting I have a global audience). After a couple years there and way too many 70-80 hour work weeks I was recruited by a wholly owned subsidiary of the firm I started with to come work exclusively for them in commercial real estate. Now I make my living working with primarily national retailers and developers on acquisitions and dispositions in addition to the normal financial reporting associated with our company. We do a lot of site selection work for Walgreen's and Bojangle's so if you've recently been negatively affected by either of them locally, it's probably my fault. I would get into the market, where it's been and where it's going but at this point that might even put me to sleep - or maybe just depress me into a coma. Thanks for reading and I do apologize if you've continued reading in an effort to find some substance or maybe even learn something you didn't know. If nothing else, at least you can take comfort in knowing that this is my very first blog and there is considerable room for improvement so watch out ;o)
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