DAN - SALES MANAGER

1. How would you describe your work?
I am the manager of a sales team that sells power plants and environmental improvements to existing power plants. Our customers are large utilities companies. Previously I also worked as an Engineer and Project Manager for the same company.

2. What are some ways that your work is a reflection of God?
As a manager, every day is an opportunity to treat the people that work on my team with honor, respect and integrity (Ephesians 6:9). Being a humble leader that treats all with respect and as equals is an opportunity to witness.
As a salesman, honesty and thinking of the customer’s needs before that of myself or my own company leads to trust, relationships, and more sales. It also provides the opportunity the answer this question that I receive frequently, “Why are you so different than most salesmen I speak to?”

3. How does your work provide insight into the brokenness of this world?
In my experience people who travel often have less of a foundation with their home, their family, and their church. Without that foundation, it can lead to sinful behavior that I hear about or sometimes witness. It does however provide me an opportunity to testify to a broader group of people that I would not encounter if I did not travel. (Think of the conversations you have had sitting next to a complete stranger on an airplane.)

4. Jesus commands us to “love our neighbors as ourselves”. How does your work function as an opportunity to love and serve others?
As a manager, as a salesman, and as a stranger sitting on a plane or alone at a restaurant, every day is an opportunity to live like Christ and be a light in the world. I meet with or have extended conversations with 5-20 different people in a day, and each one is an opportunity to encourage a fellow believer or witness to an unbeliever.