After 39 years in customer-centric sales positions, addressing other’s needs has been absolutely second nature for me, whether it was the restaurant business, the automobile industry or since 2007 in Real Estate.
Little did I know that all of my negotiating and people skills would be required, in fact demanded, and just for the seemingly simple act of moving Dad into a Skilled Nursing Facility. My wife and I spent 3 months and several thousand driving – miles dealing with concerns, repairs, cleanouts and other assorted loose ends. Years later I thought, I’ve been in training my whole adult life for that Olympian task and nothing truly prepared me for the energy drain of helping Dad.
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