PPB February 2019

I suck at sports. In school, no one ever wanted me on their team and they were right. I’m also an introvert who’d rather not meet you nor much of anyone else, sweatily surviving networking functions by chatting with the catering crew, God willing there is one. I’ve heard it’s best to load your sales team with lettered athletes and student government election victors, which pretty much counts me out. My eighth grade PE teacher would be shocked to learn that I have managed to become a productive member of society, because she would have bet against me. I was such a disgrace to the Sowers Middle School athletic department that one day I was removed from the team- picking lineup that stood assembled on the asphalt. This was not to save me from being the last one chosen, mind you, but rather to keep anyone from having to have me on their team. I was kept a safe distance from the others, left alone to shoot baskets day after day. Perhaps my teacher feared my ineptitude was contagious. Sales Secrets From A Dork What I learned in middle school lives on. by Laura Martin 50 | FEBRUARY 2019 | GROW