I was in the cosmetics industry with Maybelline from 1978 to 1987. Went to work for the Dr. Scholl's Footcare Products division of the same corporation that owned Maybelline in 1987. In 1988 I was transferred to corporate headquarters in NJ.
In 1991 I called my brother that was living stateside and told him I was moving back to TN and that I was sending him an airline ticket so he could help me pack up and move as I had taken a position as Director of Marketing for a major Southeast U.S. wholesale food and drug distributor.
On day 97 of my employment with the now defunct food/drug wholesaler I was called into the president's office and instructed to terminate everyone in the marketing department. I said "No." If I was going to terminate everyone in the department, they sure as hell didn't need a department head. Long story, short version, I had an employment contract. They could terminate me within the first 90 days, and I would have no recourse. After 90 days If I was terminated within five years, they owed me five years' salary.
That five years' salary allowed me the opportunity to purchase the beginning acreage of my farm. I'm now up to 640 contiguous acres and 60 disjoined acres. Most of it is standing timber and swamp. We plant about 200 acres to cover the bank note, property taxes and utilities in the house and barns and the rest of the property is used as hunting lands.
My main source of income for the last 31 years has been working in the glass tinting/coating industry as a 3M Authorized Dealer in the Memphis area.
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