CHAPTER 6

It’s a rarity for me to travel with Bob, but this week he is speaking at the JetStream Executive conference in Palm Springs, California. It’s a strange event where all of us who work together in Savannah get on planes, ours and commercial, and fly to another location to talk to each other.

Bob is delivering a State of Sales address, and then the rest of the time will be spent golfing and socialising with other execs. Kara will be there to doing her exec wife things. I will be stressing out until Bob’s presentation is over, then he’s asked me to come along on a golf outing. I think it’s his way of trying to reward me for all my hard work but one, I don’t play and two, business social events are almost painfully awkward for me. One on one with someone I know, I’m great but, in a group of people whom I barely know and who outrank me by a mile, I’m tortured.