My New Additional Workspace and Continuing Entrepreneurs Journey

byLDSewell

3.1K followers

2 years ago

It seems I am not satisfied unless I have at least 70 or 80 hours or more of work to do, and at least a dozen income production efforts underway at all times.

I blame the Navy - and I’m only half joking.

Thats because by the time I was 18 years old I was trained and serving on active duty aboard warships as an Operations Specialist or OS for short. I worked in a space called CIC or Combat Information Center and it was later renamed to CDC for Combat Direction Center.

Watch any Navy war movie and see the space with radar, status boards and lots of excitement - and that was my former office and place of work for more than a decade.

As part of the job you were not trained to do only one or two things - but rather every job in there. For example, surface search radar, air search, maneuvering board, dead reckoning tracer, navigation, radio/coms, coding and decoding classified maneuvering directives, status boards, and much more. Over time and after standing thousands of hours of watch you move up to watch supervisor - overseeing all the other people on watch.

So you were always keeping track of and managing about a dozen or more things at a time - and that was your normal routine. It was mine and was deeply engrained in me and became part of who I am.

Even if I wanted to change that (and I don’t) I don’t think I could - it is so deep as to be part of my core being and will be for life.

Even though I left active duty in my early 30s (now 60) that mindset transferred over into all things I do.

Good bad or otherwise. It is what it is.

With that in mind - even though I own and operate my own successful company, and work my butt off - and as part of that create courses, products and other things as well as own and operate a tractor trailer myself - with intentions to build that division into a fleet (and a multimillion dollar business) I can’t just do that.

Nope.

I had an opportunity to take a position as a Training Program Director for another very large and successful training company overseeing one of its truck driver training schools contracted to a local community college - so I did.

So now I now once again run a truck driving school with multiple instructors and trucks and lots of students - even though I don’t own it. I do still get a great deal of satisfaction in helping people start their careers and learn skills they didn’t think they could learn.

Here is a shot of part of our classroom ;

All new students spend the first 40 hours in the classroom learning fundamentals and theory before proceeding to training with the trucks. That phase begins with a introduction and overview of the trucks and systems and proceeds on with the students learning in-depth inspection procedures for a couple of days.

Next they learn basic vehicle control skills and backing. As they become more proficient there they begin going out on the road and learning to drive in various conditions and doing various maneuvers.

From then on it’s mostly practice drill and rehearse - keep doing all they have been taught over and over and over again for the remainder of their course. After that we schedule and they go take their skills exam with a state representative skills examiner - normally an employee of dmv trained to conduct in-depth CDL skills testing.

When they pass they earn their CDL and are then ready for entry level truck driving jobs (and more training with their new company).

So I do that four days a week, then run loads on Friday and Saturday if I can, and teach my own courses online at night and what ever time I can find.

I am blessed and fortunate that I can do the job and continue to run my own businesses too.

I’m also building a meetup group (38 members so far ; ) But that can only happen with the help of others who want to be group leaders (I already have 2 ; ) who can coordinate and lead outings even if I can’t be there.

So I think now I am nearing my maximum productivity point - and maybe, just maybe have enough on my plate to keep me fully occupied and happy.

Time will tell…

Have a great weekend yourself.

Best regards,

L.D. Sewell