I love my job and thank God for it everyday. I sincerely never thought I would come to a point where I could say that in the few years I have worked. Working at SAS calls for a lot of creativity, thinking outside the box, time management, planning, flexibility etc.
To make SAS look better, we transferred most of the stock to a 'warehouse' out of town and hence when there is a delivery to be made, I need to go ,identify the items and if they can fit in our car we celebrate because we cut of transport costs, if they do not fit we need to hire transport. I never used to try this raffles for 'win a pickup' but believe you me, I have 5 points this far because I so desperately would love to win one of the remaining 29 pickups on offer by Safaricom. I keep trying to convince God how genuine my need and how it would help us.My beloved was quick to remind me that most pickups are manual and not automatic and I said I would deal with that issue when we get there. For now, I want the pick up, I know I can't drive a manual car but where there is a will there is a way don't you think?
The best part about my job is meeting clients everyday. I strive to remember most of our clients and give them personalized service. For me its not just making money, for me its building a relationship and genuine concern for my clients. I also love meeting children. Its much fun and reminds me of my passion towards them. You know kids are real, they do not hide.
So far the challenging areas of my job are clearing goods from Mombasa Port. I wish the goods would deliver themselves to the shop.My second greatest challenge at times is identifying items from the 'warehouse' that don't want to be found when they are most needed. For example, yesterday my heart's desire was to go to the 'warehouse', identify the items, organise for transport and delivery for the following day.I had seen the boxes and knew they were too big to fit in our car. Some items of the same model come in 2 colours e.g. pink and blue. This particular item has 8 boxes.My chinese friends labeled the cartons with the pink item with a white label to help differentiate from the blue ones. However they decided to leave some boxes unmarked for us to guess. For the unmarked cartons, we would try peep and see whether there is was any blue or pink.So it became quite tedious but we finally managed to get the 8 cartons.
While there ,another client said she would love a different item and so the search began. Most items have the model number and the different parts of it are packed in different cartons marked e.g. A, B, C, D. So even have A-I.Lucky for us we easily identified box A of that particular model. We turned the whole storage area upside down looking and finally at some far corner we got part C and D. Would you believe it we could not find part B? I kept asking God for a revelation. The thought of relooking and rearranging just made me go nuts because time was flying and I had wanted to pass by the shop and head home early as we were hosting our bible study group for the month.
We gave up searching for the part B and loaded the items that could fit into the car and I started my journey back to the city.5p.m. found me far far away and my beloved accepted to close the shop for me. Needless to say the road has been under construction for the past one year and the traffic from Utalli to Pangani was so much.There was so much push and shove ,the usual Nairobi style.I was so tired, I had not sat down the whole day and neither had I called baby gal over lunchtime as I usually do. We had talked with my beloved earlier but all I did was complain how the part B was playing hard to get. Got home a few minutes to 7p.m and found our guests had arrived and thanks to our daughter and the house help they had some refreshments.
After the bible study I thanked God for the sales and for the busy day. I reminded myself that one day soon, I shall not be climbing boxes looking for the items but we will have systems in place and many employees at hand who will handle what we are doing. One day, SAS Impressions will no longer be a start up, but will grow to serve the many diverse families we have here in Kenya and in East Africa. But for now , 7months down the line, I will be strong and will press on. My strength is in the Lord and know one day when I grow up,one day I will be what He intended me to be as an individual.
To make SAS look better, we transferred most of the stock to a 'warehouse' out of town and hence when there is a delivery to be made, I need to go ,identify the items and if they can fit in our car we celebrate because we cut of transport costs, if they do not fit we need to hire transport. I never used to try this raffles for 'win a pickup' but believe you me, I have 5 points this far because I so desperately would love to win one of the remaining 29 pickups on offer by Safaricom. I keep trying to convince God how genuine my need and how it would help us.My beloved was quick to remind me that most pickups are manual and not automatic and I said I would deal with that issue when we get there. For now, I want the pick up, I know I can't drive a manual car but where there is a will there is a way don't you think?
The best part about my job is meeting clients everyday. I strive to remember most of our clients and give them personalized service. For me its not just making money, for me its building a relationship and genuine concern for my clients. I also love meeting children. Its much fun and reminds me of my passion towards them. You know kids are real, they do not hide.
So far the challenging areas of my job are clearing goods from Mombasa Port. I wish the goods would deliver themselves to the shop.My second greatest challenge at times is identifying items from the 'warehouse' that don't want to be found when they are most needed. For example, yesterday my heart's desire was to go to the 'warehouse', identify the items, organise for transport and delivery for the following day.I had seen the boxes and knew they were too big to fit in our car. Some items of the same model come in 2 colours e.g. pink and blue. This particular item has 8 boxes.My chinese friends labeled the cartons with the pink item with a white label to help differentiate from the blue ones. However they decided to leave some boxes unmarked for us to guess. For the unmarked cartons, we would try peep and see whether there is was any blue or pink.So it became quite tedious but we finally managed to get the 8 cartons.
While there ,another client said she would love a different item and so the search began. Most items have the model number and the different parts of it are packed in different cartons marked e.g. A, B, C, D. So even have A-I.Lucky for us we easily identified box A of that particular model. We turned the whole storage area upside down looking and finally at some far corner we got part C and D. Would you believe it we could not find part B? I kept asking God for a revelation. The thought of relooking and rearranging just made me go nuts because time was flying and I had wanted to pass by the shop and head home early as we were hosting our bible study group for the month.
We gave up searching for the part B and loaded the items that could fit into the car and I started my journey back to the city.5p.m. found me far far away and my beloved accepted to close the shop for me. Needless to say the road has been under construction for the past one year and the traffic from Utalli to Pangani was so much.There was so much push and shove ,the usual Nairobi style.I was so tired, I had not sat down the whole day and neither had I called baby gal over lunchtime as I usually do. We had talked with my beloved earlier but all I did was complain how the part B was playing hard to get. Got home a few minutes to 7p.m and found our guests had arrived and thanks to our daughter and the house help they had some refreshments.
After the bible study I thanked God for the sales and for the busy day. I reminded myself that one day soon, I shall not be climbing boxes looking for the items but we will have systems in place and many employees at hand who will handle what we are doing. One day, SAS Impressions will no longer be a start up, but will grow to serve the many diverse families we have here in Kenya and in East Africa. But for now , 7months down the line, I will be strong and will press on. My strength is in the Lord and know one day when I grow up,one day I will be what He intended me to be as an individual.
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