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It was Thanksgiving week, 1979, that I called Mr. K in Orlando about a job that I saw in the Daytona Beach newspaper. "Good morning, I'm calling about an ad I see in the Daytona newspaper", I started. "Good morning, Steve, are you and your family ready for Thanksgiving?", he answered. "Yes we are, but how did you know my name?", I questioned. "Well Stephen, you have been working for me for the past 2 years." Mr. K was the first of many to confuse our voices over the next few years. I tried to convince him for 5 minutes that I wasn't Stephen Smith, but he finally had to call me back at my cousins home where I was living, before he was fully convinced. The next week, I met with him and was hired to work in the Daytona office for Stephen at the incredible salary of $150.00 per week for a 50+ hour week. I had been averaging $500 per week in Missouri doing the same job, but Mr. K promised me that if I worked hard and cheap for a year and got my 220 License, he would offer me the same opportunity at office ownership that Mr. Smith and another success Mr. Lowell Enlow had. I had been offered many other jobs in the two months that I had been in Florida, but I believed in what I was being offered, and I liked the way Mr. Smith had treated me in the job interview. [ Side note: On Christmas Eve, 1979, I was delivered a Christmas food package from an Organization in Daytona that feeds the poor, as I was listed in the newspaper as one of the 10 poorest families in Daytona Beach that year.]

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