I am not really into this whole blogging idea. Its well.......a girl thing if you know what I mean. I fully support it, because I know we do a horrible job (well I do at least) of keeping a regular journal, and even writing our friends as much as we should is hard for me to do. So this blog is the next best thing I guess. Anyways, Kemp asked that I explain this day that I had at work last week. Before I begin, this is an extension of her story about rushing to the airport (by herself) to get my passport to me. I had forgotten it and this trip would not have happened without the wonderful assistance of my courageous companion, got to love her! As a result, this day ended up being a lot more than I had expected......thank goodness.
According to my schedule I was suppose to sit at my desk and do some market research, I know not the most exciting thing. After lunch I decided to make the most of a South Carolina Trade Mission and help out wherever and however possible. So I began to mingle with the managers of the companies from South Carolina. They were scheduled to have meetings all day and while talking to one of them, we soon discovered that he and Kemp are both from Ogden. He was a really nice guy and we immediately began talking about life in Utah. I asked if I could help in any way and from there on I spent most of the day with him. As a result, he invited me to take a nice helicopter ride with him the following day while he visited some perspective partners’ plants. It was awesome! The flight and picture were obviously a chance of a lifetime but more than that it gave me great insight as to how the raw, front lines of business can be. The afternoon was spent explaining, laughing, expressing concerns, recognizing cultural differences, and most importantly respecting the other. I learned more in that afternoon within a conference room sitting with very successful individuals, than I ever did in a few years of college.
The picture of the guy with the cow.......he is the multimillionaire who has started a new hobby. Raising specialty cows. After our business meetings, he was determined to drive us to this little cow utopia that he has created. For the next hour we received the full explanation as to how and why he spent over 2 million dollars on this single cow! Turns out it is a special breed from India and its eggs are used (together with a bull's sperm obviously) to create more super bred cows that he turns around and sells for $R 200,000 a piece, or about $150,000! That is no small chunk of change especially when they take the embryos and place them in the uterus of several other cows. This allows one cow to have over 100 calves per year! That is a really huge chunk of change! Anyways it was an amazing experience overall and I wouldn't trade it for anything. So Mark Haddad from Guardian Building Supplies, if you read this someday, thanks a lot
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