The day starts with a static-laced whoosh of wind a foot from my ear, unless it’s a “shave day”, in which case it starts with a loud triplet of beeps from the same spot. My alarm clock has many different settings, and if I need to wake up earlier to shave, I just switch the alarm to the earlier setting, and the whistling wind becomes beeps. As interesting as my 7:30 AM wake up is, I’ll move past it quickly, as nothing totally wild happens here. Unless, of course, you count eye booger clear-aways and wedgie picks as wild.
Breakfast is served in the cafeteria on the first floor, meaning I trudge down two flights of stairs in my heavy coat and dress clothes, break a sweat, remove said coat, and proceed to wolf down some oatmeal that was made by the morning chef, either Jay or Wayne. Only the 16 Sales Center trainees use the cafeteria right now, but when teams stay at the National Sports Center to train in their respective sports, they also eat there. Wayne’s got a story for every sports team and MLS Sales Center team that’s ever eaten there.
I next proceed to the main administrative building of the National Sports Center where our offices are located. The only problem with this transition is that it requires a ¼ mile walk across a wide open field and an even more open parking lot, also known as a wind tunnel. It regularly whips our noses to redness. Luckily, it’s been fairly warm thus far.
There’s something important I’m leaving out. Throughout all these steps, there’s almost always 1 or more fellow Sales Trainees alongside me (except for when I wake up.) I’d say 90% of the time it’s great to have someone to eat breakfast with or walk and talk with on the way to our building, but the other 10% of the time I would rather be alone. The beauty of having 15 others in the program is that the faces rotate each day, so on one day I may chat with the biggest guy I’ve ever seen who played on his college football team’s O-line, while on another day I’ll walk next to the petite girl from San Antonio who’s trying to get dual citizenship in the USA and Mexico. There is lots of variety, and I really like it.
Anyways, mornings at the office are usually made up of training sessions, whether its role playing, spirit games, or something else entirely. As I said earlier, I can’t go into much detail on these. “The office” consists of 24 cubicles and two bigger cubicle offices. The bigger offices are for the program directors, while the sales trainees use 16 of the 24 cubicles. The room is arranged like this:
I have a lot to say about the make-up of this room, and it’s important because I spend the majority of my days in it. Unfortunately, I’ve worn myself out on Microsoft Paint, so the room’s decorations as well as the rest of an average day will continue tomorrow or over the weekend.
Major League Soccer has 3 teams in Canada: Toronto FC, Vancouver Whitecaps, and the expansion Montreal Impact.
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