Traveling for Work

As I'm coming up on a year in my new position in Knoxville I am really enjoying it. I enjoy all my co-workers and studying the business that I'm working in. It is constantly changing and competitive at times too, which I like.

Another aspect of my job is some travel. I travel about every third week for my job and I do like getting away and seeing new people and places. Getting out on an open interstate, setting the cruise control, and looking at the sights are great and get me geared up for the next week of travel. I always see something or someone new and that fits me.

Part of my territory is West Virginia. Some of my nicest, most personable customers are in West Virginia. But the point I want to make is that this is the most run down, decrepit, poor, poverty stricken state I have ever been to. And yes, I'm from Kentucky! Everywhere you look it is just so depressing. I look forward to ending my week by leaving this state.

I was talking to one customer and she was talking about her daughter which had moved to TN. Her daughter said the attitude of TN people was much more optimistic than people in West Virginia. I can definitely see why. There looks to be no prosperity or any avenue for success.

To top it off... We have an idiot for a president that thinks we can tax and regulate the coal industry into bankruptcy over night. West Virginia people eat, sleep, and breath coal (this could be side effects that I'm witnessing). Cap and trade is what I'm speaking of. Coal is over 50% of this countries energy... it's not going anywhere anytime soon. They are so uncertain of their immediate future that it is very sad.

Go GOP in the November 2010 Mid-term elections. Do it for West Virginia, people with conservative values, and for all the other people that are actually working for a living.