John Johnston

I currently live in Petrolia ON and am not working at this time. I have always been fascinated by the customers that I met and did business with. During our conversations we would talk about each other, how we got into our respective business and how we enjoyed learning about each other circumstance. The conversations broke the ice and in the end both of us enjoyed doing business with each other and sometimes very good supplier /user working relationships developed from that. 

I have always looked at those supplier / user relationships as the best part of my work and I would like to get back at it again and I know that with what CFIB offers and how I deliver my employers message I can be very successful working at the CFIB.

My professional experience has been varied and rather exciting. Changes in products that needed to be promoted changed on an almost daily basis sometimes. If you were good and flexible enough to listen to what the person you were seeing you could make sales for products that changed the buyer /supplier relationship for many years to come. Exciting? You bet. Rewarding? Always, 

You start the day off seeming to be doing the same old, same old. And your walk away with an order and your feet are barely touching the ground because you feel so good. Tough to beat. 

My most relevant education? That would have to be Mathematics and English. English because it is the language of business and the one who communicates best always get the prize and the one who can accurately calculate in his/her head also usually gets the prize ……… the order and in sales its all about the prize.