{"id":13,"date":"2006-12-15T19:54:47","date_gmt":"2006-12-16T03:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2023-04-17T16:25:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T00:25:13","slug":"tell-me-sweet-little-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/15\/tell-me-sweet-little-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Me Sweet Little Lies&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/15\/tell-me-sweet-little-lies\/&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=1&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;font=\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:25px\"><\/iframe><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fheathervale.com%2Fblog%2F2006%2F12%2F15%2Ftell-me-sweet-little-lies%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><p>I&#8217;ve been working as an account rep for Nokia for almost three years now.<\/p>\n<p>It was a job I manifested, almost by mistake, but it&#8217;s been mostly a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>See, when the job came along, I had wanted to speak in front of audiences; teach people something I knew; have flexible work where I wasn&#8217;t punching a clock; be able to travel; and make a certain dollar figure that I had in mind as the ultimate amount to make.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it was going to be a job on TV, radio, or as a professional speaker.  That&#8217;s not unreasonable, since I was doing all those things at the time, all on a part-time and\/or freelance and\/or volunteer basis&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Instead I ended up with a job that fit all the criteria I had put out to the Universe&#8230; but it was in the corporate world, and representing a product I knew nothing about (I had just bought my first cellphone about a month earlier, and a Motorola to boot).<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the job was a lot of fun for the first year.  Then they shuffled up the team; everybody knew GSM technology was cooler than CDMA, but when they split the team in two I got the CDMA side.  With very little product to teach about, and no cool trendy features on the phones we did have out, I started to get bored (that&#8217;s when I started my journey that led me to create <a href=\"http:\/\/successunwrappedradio.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Success Unwrapped<\/a>, followed by my other successive projects).<\/p>\n<p>So during the next year I dealt with a lot of frustrations, including a teammate who decided she didn&#8217;t like me even though I thought we were getting along great (reminds me of my sister-in-law, but that&#8217;s another story &#8212; funny how that happens, though, isn&#8217;t it?)<\/p>\n<p>But we did get a trip to the Barbados as  a reward for selling our quota; that was really cool except that my husband decided at the last minute that he wasn&#8217;t going to come with us, and I ended up stag among a bunch of couples.  Still, swimming in the clear, warm, blue ocean alongside sea turtles is something I&#8217;ll always treasure.<\/p>\n<p>Then the CDMA team got a phone that was cooler than anything on the GSM lineup, against all odds.  We went on a cross-Canada tour promoting it, one city per night, and felt like rock stars and roadies all rolled up into one.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to now, and we all got pulled into meetings where the boss asks you standard boss-type questions like, &#8220;Where do you see yourself five years from now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Umm&#8230; how do you answer that?  See, I&#8217;ve been doing more and more with my online marketing ventures lately, and ideally I see myself doing that full-time.  I&#8217;m not at the point yet where I can walk away from my J.O.B. and feel comfortable about it; but that is the end goal.<\/p>\n<p>As I sat there at the table with my boss, all I could think of was the Fleetwood Mac song&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tell me lies,<br \/>\nTell me sweet little lies,<br \/>\nTell me lies, tell me, tell me lies&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, no, no, you can&#8217;t disguise&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Although I&#8217;m not making plans,<br \/>\nI hope that you understand there&#8217;s a reason why&#8230;<br \/>\nClose your, close your, close your eye&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<span class=\"vvqbox vvqyoutube\" style=\"width:425px;height:335px;\"><span id=\"vvq-13-youtube-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V_CDJfXRMtY\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/V_CDJfXRMtY\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube Preview Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<p>But&#8230; well&#8230; I&#8217;m not a very good liar.  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