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If you haven’t read my earlier post, ‘Set Sail’ go read it or #spoileralert. It’s best to start there for context/awesomeness.
I know the rest of you have been waiting with bated breath to hear if anything has transpired from the ‘interview’ and subsequent burial at sea of my foray into the Superyacht industry.
Well, if you had ‘they email you and ask you to send the presentation’ square in the pool, winner, winner, chicken dinner!
Yes, that’s right. Not too long ago I opened my inbox, saw a familiar address and immediately wished we all, dear readers, could open it together as one.
There was a lovely apologetic missive at the start, ‘for the delay’ (delay in what was unclear, we all knew I wasn’t getting hired) and then an immediate kick-turn to ask if it were possible to send through the presentation I gave in my interview.
My brain could not hold the multitudes of responses, each one like a little star, shining in the night sky just waiting to be discovered.
Hey! Great to hear from you, can I just confirm before sending, was it because the presentation was so good or because you can’t remember how good it was because YOU STOPPED FUCKING LISTENING BEFORE IT WAS OVER?
I’m not sure what I’m more impressed by, the fact they had the stones to ask for it at all or the fact that they had the stones to ask for it for free.
God bless entitlement.
I’m not sure how long I laughed but the neighbor came by to make sure everything was OK.
Please leave your best email response in the comments. I will consolidate and send through with the presentation.
Looking forward to chopping it all up in a dugout near you, brother! Send me that deck and we'll spin it into literary gold...just send me the deck...just SEND IT. (I hear it's quite good...)
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