PS. May 19, 2020; I am no longer engaged with boat sales activities of any kind. Some may ask, ‘Why the heck did you get into something so different from farming and food systems in the first place?” Actually I’ve had a lifelong interest in boats and what they represent in beauty and metaphor. As for benefits I could work online, liked the concept (Pay on Performance) and the leadership seemed sincere re. assuring transparency and quality; but a myriad of factors made me not profitable for them (and me).
Also, as a former front line customer support person for the nursery, Four Winds Growers I provided daily customer support for their flagship product: Dwarf Citrus. I really missed interacting with customers in a support capacity and this job filled that missing piece while giving me a chance to learn more about boats. (But it also made me sad because it seemed like a lot of boats are sold because of bad times or hardships.)
Thanks, POP Yachts! I honestly did my best for you! I am looking at this more as a learning experience than a failure.
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And it’s interesting that this post follows earlier query precipitated from my old friend and colleague Kathy Thompson-Kilts‘ post on the same tired topic of inequality. Why are people poor? Well, there’s also the question, why are people rich? At this point in my spiritual journey it feels like Karma is real and most of the time we can’t tell how we fit into the big picture. You probably can’t see it all from here, so the rest takes a little faith.
I postulate that humans are naturally prone to feeling empty and lost (not good enough, shamed, etc) and so we often strive to disprove this inner pain, through accumulation of wealth, or things that represent wealth (I’m OK). Simply that old compensation thing. So, we buy ‘toys’: pontoon boats and houseboats, speedboats and wakesetters, motoryachts and megayachts. People with big First World problems tend to have fancy boats and horses.
And why do people buy boats? Boats represent all kinds of important things in the human psyche and in the Collective Unconsciousness. There is much to explore there for me personally. That’s where this will be going for awhile…
For now I just want to put out there that this new venture of helping sellers and buyers of boats come together and make deals is the next passage in my spiritual (and hopefully also economic) growth.
I like helping people solve problems.
Sadly some long time boat owners are forced to sell as their needs change, and they are often disappointed to discover the ‘buyer’s market’ reality. I feel their pain. Letting go is hard. Change can really suck sometimes.
And I’m looking now at Boats as another category of the great teachers that can show us more about life and work and meaning.
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