My name is Paige. I have a handsome husband, a chocolate lab and we live in a sweet apartment in Orange County, California. About 4 months ago we moved from the great state of Arkansas so I could pursue my longing ambition to sell forklifts and other material handling stuff.
What is Material Handling you may ask? To that I say, "Great question. I am still not sure."
I looked the definition up Wikipedia told me that Material Handling is the field concerned with solving the pragmatic problems involving the movement, storage in a manufacturing plant or warehouse, control and protection of materials, goods and products throughout the processes of cleaning, preparation, manufacturing, distribution, consumption and disposal of all related materials, goods and their packaging.
To sum that up - Basically, I sell forklifts, create racking designs for warehouses and find solutions for any efficiency/safety/general problems a warehouse is faced with. And for the record... that is A LOT of stuff.
Being in my twenties makes this job a little more challenging. Not because the others in my field are older/wiser/more experienced, no, that would never intimidate me. It's challenging because my excitement about getting the opportunity to rack a 100,000 sq. ft. distribution warehouse doesn't quite give the same giddy feeling to my twenty-something friends during bottomless mimosa brunch. And that, my followers, is why I am starting this blog.
Please follow me while I share my new experiences as a material handling professional. There will be shares on successes, learning curves, new findings and the challenges this job will bring.
I feel Madonna has said it best when she says, "We are living in a material world, and I am a material girl."
*Please note, I will ask for permission before posting company names and pictures.
Good job! I look forward to all of your posts!
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