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Office Lunch Counters

These are usually run by owner-operators who know everyone.

They’re typically very friendly. Buying any item is all that’s necessary to obtain high quality building offeror information.

Buy something small while you’re on your weekly visit and ask a lot of questions.

Before or after your instants in any office building, these stops are must-sees for must-do’s!

Do 62: Running the Routes with the Jobjungle Scouts

“Hey, y’all!”

That greeting was inspired by Food Network’s Paula Deen. Her honorable mention is my honor.

Paula started The Bag Lady with $200 and the idea to deliver lunches to office buildings. One by one every workday. From those humble instant interviews, Paula’s become synonymous with delicious Southern cooking.

Her personal transformation from the early shows is beyond description. Yours will be too. Smile—one foot in front of the other. Use Paula as your “roll” model.

Nobody knows the innards of office buildings like the hardworking people who wake up early, load up large, and push elevator buttons for a living. They’re the modern-day jobjungle scouts. Heightened senses—flying below the radar. Savvy supersleuths with instant interview information every day.

Think of the incredible instantness of someone like Paula. Get up at the dawn of dawn, make your lunches, wrap, pack, sort, store, and do a hundred or so other things before you ever look in the mirror. Then out with a smile, a good memory, and off you go.

When you get back home, you go to your day job. Figuring out and ordering all the supplies and food you need for your fickle pickle friends. Then rushing in your order before the suppliers close.

Wouldn’t you like to know someone like that? You do! I’m talkin’ ’bout you! The classic profile of an I.I.

Someone who understands that interviews don’t happen any more than sandwiches happen. You make interviews happen. You read a recipe (as you’re doing this instant), you get the ingredients. You follow the recipe to the letter. It works. You work.

This is how to run the routes with these jobjungle scouts.

Google office sandwich delivery cleveland and you’ll get 38,300 or so links. That’s about average. You don’t have to relo to Cleveland. Just go on a local scouting trip.

Then click on the web sites, write down the phone numbers, go over there, and instant interview! Many will allow you to design your own route. If so, pick areas where hiring is highest.

Do whatever you can to get a route. They’re always looking for people who’ll go the distance. Your Magic Potion will power you there (Do 2).

If food can’t get you in every door and have you interviewing with every person in every lobby, every elevator, every hallway, and every office, start a route of your own. As a “mobile eating stopper.” It’s definitely one of those jobs of the future.

Of course, ask like a banshee for leads too. Scouts will have them in abundance.

Another less-voluminous way is to google the many roving suppliers who deliver to specialty markets. These deliver everything from tools at construction sites to surgical supplies at medical offices.

Law firms use attorney services that pick up and deliver daily. Accountants use tax processing services that do too. Many payroll services work like that. The list is infinite. The instant interviews are infinite.

Paula’s autobiography is entitled, It Ain’t All About the Cookin’. It sho’ ain’t.

Yours will be It Ain’t All About the Job. And you’re writing as you’re reading.

Let’s start it out with: “It ain’t all about the job because there’s never a ‘job.’ It’s just you and the offeror.”

Do you see the endless possibilities here?

A famished forest awaits.

Run to help run those routes!

Do 63: Banking Personal References Instantly

Think of this and the following Do as being two huge do-posit slips!

Because references properly selected are like money in the bank.