New City YET AGAIN

It is so hard to start over.
in anything generally speaking, but specifically now I am speaking of training.

I love group ex and I love training. I love it all... But starting over in a new city is very hard.
I am not a good sales person. I am funny and once I get to talking to people, they seem to like me... BUT I am not a good salesman. Sadly, in this industry, you need to be a good salesman...
Now, don't get me wrong, there are AMAZING trainers who are good sales people, but there are wa more crappy trainers that are good sales people :(
So any way... I am not a good sales man, and it is hard to be an independent trainer when you lack the sales skill..
and
I hate the way gyms are ran.
The pay is crappy
The gym always wants a no-compete

So, I get the no-compete... I can understand why. I never ran a gym that way. I never tell my trainers they cannot train at another gym or independently. BUT I get it.. When you are so insecure about your abilities to attract customers and clients, you have to restrict your trainers.

I think that is stupid.

Make your gym so fantastic that trainers WANT to train there, they want to use your facility because it is just that awesome. A client who wants to be in a gym and use gym equipment goes to a gym. It is that simple. You cater to the kind of client you want. Do you want meat heads who are shouting and grunting and posing? COOL build a gym they want to be in. Do you want something that is non-threatening so that 90% of the population that DOESN'T workout feels comfortable? COOL build that.

But you don't get that, you get restrictions and blah blah blah..

Well, time to go be awkward and try to meet some people :)

The challenge that is "IT"

Everyone in my life that matters is all smart n stuff about anything and everything IT related.... I am not...
I mean I have come a long way from my first computer... I remember very vividly the helper guy "support" telling me the explorer was the big E on my screen.....
Yeah.... I know now words like Chrome and some kind of fox....

But I wanted my screen brighter today, so I am searching and searching for the right place on the control panel and I ask Hayden (15y/o) for help... he walks in and goes the NOT the control panel and clicks a button that literally has a slide bar of brightness-ness.

Genius right here

My boyfriend (not S/O... I hate that) is an IT guy by trade... I have no fkn idea what he does. I know he gets irritated when customers don't do what he tells them to do and then their shit messes up and they call him in a panic....
And I relate to that b/c clients don't do what you tell them to either...
'how is the diet going?'
well, Monday I forgot my lunch and I just ate chocolate b/c that is all that was in the vending machine...
really
really?
is this real life right now???
Subways are hard to come by, so obviously vending machine was the only option.... I know there is not a sandwich shop in your office building and it would have required you to walk 2 blocks
IN THE OUTSIDE

hahahaha~~~ I laugh at this b/c it is
1. honestly conversations I have had with clients
2. I totally see me making the same excuse!

anyways....
some things boggle me
like we can talk to people in space but my cell phone coverage varies TREMENDOUSLY from location to location and provider to provider

WHICH I mention to my super smart, totally nerxy boyfriend and he has a logical sensical answer

of course he does

something about we could get NASA quality but would need a 4th job to pay for it, would not be able to text or send snaps.....
     OMG I am old, I know this, but I love snapchat!!!
anyway... good NASA grade phone service is expensive and no cool smart phone things.

so we have mere human phones and we have to deal with towers....
I understand enough about towers to know that I am happy not knowing more.

it would be cool though to sit at home and randomly triangulate strangers then call them and make references to where they are and then ask for something completely idiotic or scruffy gets it!

hahahaha.... I'm a tard

why the random cell phone rant?
Well said B/F is on a motorcycle trip and his GPS tracker thing (surly it has a real name that I was told but forgot) keeps me updated on his whereabouts every 10 min.... (helpful if he quits moving so I can call for help) but I can't talk to him b/c no phone service!

OH the struggle is real
have a fantastic day!