Insurance Salesman
After Signetics shut down I went to work for Kara Chocolates in Orem. It was a good job while Bishop Anderson owned it and while Keith Cavanaugh worked there. Then two brothers took over and started to run it. They took the good chocolate that was used and no longer used it and went to a cheaper chocolate. They fired Keith and that left me to run the molding plant. They started systematically firing the women who had worked there for several years and hired Spanish people who couldn’t speak English. For the most part they were good workers but very slow. They would have me run the molding plant, when the rush seasons came along, on a graveyard shift. That didn’t bother me as far as the hours but it did get pretty quiet since I was the only one there. Then we started doing work for Guiradelli and that was pretty fun. I did learn to love dark chocolate because of their dark chocolate. I would only run the graveyard shift for a few days until we got caught up and then go back to dayshift. A year or so went on this way and then things started to go a little south. They would have me go in on graveyard and run the molding plant but they didn’t plan things out to where I would have sufficient materials to run an entire shift so I would end up just sitting around for several hours until my shift was over. I kept telling them how much chocolate was needed and they would promise me it would be there but then never come through with the promises. I started to study insurance and became licensed in Health and Life insurance and also got my Securities License. I then started working with a group of insurance people so when the next graveyard shift came along I told the boss that if there was not enough materials to run an entire shift I would be quitting. He promised me that there would be plenty. Well I got there that night and was able to make chocolates for a total of one half hour before I had exhausted every single bit of materials that I could find to keep the plant running. It was a Friday night and so I took the key to the front desk and shut down the plant and locked the door behind me. I just couldn’t in all good conscious sit there 7 and a half more hours. I then began working for A Plus insurance and found out that I was just not an Insurance salesman. I tried for sometime but finally David Nemelka told me I was too honest to sell insurance and to get out. He then helped me start Treasured Photography. While starting that I also worked for a Safe company called Ft. Knox. It was fun but then the photography started creating major conflicts with it and I had to quit. I was having to take so many days off that it wasn't fair to them to keep trying to make both of them work.
