Darryl Manson's Blog

For thirty plus years I was a captain on an engine company in the San Jose Fire Department.  My crew knew me ,knew how I communicated, a few words, they could tell by my tone if it was routine or an emergency.  Communication was more body language than words, a look , a gesture.  I had pulled them out of burning buildings or kept them from going in when their safety was in peril.  They had done the same for me.  We shared the same feelings when we pulled a dead child from a demolished car.  We shared the same exhilaration when we brought a new life into the world with emergency childbirth.

Now it is a new world, with retirement I have a new career, a new challenge.  I communicate with my blog site, face book and twitter.  I work to make peoples dreams come true through helping them to buy or sell a home.   The responsibility is still there, instead of their life and safety it is their home, their nest egg, where they will raise their family and in a strange way it is personal, it becomes part of their identity part of who they are , where they live and the home they have created, it is important , very very important.  My role has changed and I must do the best that I can to help them bring their dreams into reality.

This is directed to my fellow Eagles who are joining me on our flight to techville.  I don’t know about the rest of you but this has been very challenging to me.  Probably because this old bird didn’t get his first computer till I was past 50 years old.  Although I love this real estate biz I felt like I was flying in circles, sitting on a limb waiting for the next feather to drop.  I feel like if we hang in there Big Eagle (Dennis) and the rest of the flock are going to give us some tools that will really help us get off the ground.  I can’t say enough about the team they have assembled, very talented and helpful.  I better stop squaking and get back to work, I still have an E-newsletter and a personal brochure to send back to the nest, I don’t want Big Eagle to knock me off the perch.