My last job was for a company that sold items like wrought iron doors and iron gates. I worked there for ten years, before leaving. I was let go due to the low sales that were a direct result of the current economic times. I had seen hundreds of our past clients lose their homes and many more that I did not know. I was very sad to lose my job, but I understood it.

I had been named the top salesman of that company for three years in a row, when the times were good. In one month, I could usually sell fifty wrought iron doors and around thirty sets of iron gates. There were only two other salespeople at the store that occasionally would outsell me, and they were the owners. Every other salesperson that worked for the company would try and figure out how I did it, but they never did.

My big advantage to making all of those iron gates and wrought iron doors sales, was just because I knew the products, the inventory and the prices like the back of my hand. It did not hurt that I was just a fabulous people person too. I think that I was just born to be a salesman, some people have it and some do not.