17 Days of September

By Ryan Rice

As a 25-year-old sales engineer, I am on the road a lot visiting new places and meeting new people, all while trying to maintain my friendships I currently have. For the first 3 weeks of September, I wanted to document the craziness of my life; where I was going, what I was doing, and who I was seeing. This started as a personal journal and turned into the book you are reading. It represents a lot of what is going on in my life as a 25-year-old, and I hope you enjoy it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ryan Rice
• Release date: Oct 2, 2023
• ISBN: 9798892172059

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17 Days of September

The Daily Adventures of A Sales Engineer

Ryan Rice

Copyright © 2023 Ryan Rice

All rights reserved

The characters and events portrayed in this book are real.

No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher.

ISBN-13: 979-8-89217-205-9

Cover design by: Ryan Rice

Printed in the United States of America

Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Prologue

August 30, 2023

August 31, 2023  

September 1, 2023

September 2, 2023

September 3, 2023

September 4, 2023

September 5, 2023

September 6, 2023

September 7, 2023

September 8, 2023

September 9, 2023

September 10, 2023

September 11, 2023

September 12, 2023

September 13, 2023

September 14, 2023

September 15, 2023

September 16, 2023

September 17, 2023

September 18, 2023

Moving Forward

Acknowledgement

The End

Prologue

You’re reading the journal entries turned ebook of my 3 weeks of travel adventures. Due to my job as a sales engineer, I have a lot of customers in various locations across the Northeast. Due to my prior studying at the University of Pittsburgh, I have many friends located in similar locations across the Northeast. For these reasons, I travel a lot and get to make the most of my time in new places.

The book you are reading came about because I so tightly booked myself that I only spent two nights at home over the span of three weeks. Even on those nights, I was only home to sleep, and then back out on the road in the morning. I wanted to document the craziness the craziness of my life during this period including: 2 football games, a concert, a lake trip, 2 beach trips, a week long sales meeting, several customer visits, and tons of memories.

To keep track of my trip, I am going to count a few different metrics at the top. I will total my miles, states, beds, and number of gyms I visit. For meals I will write any meal that I pay for/make myself in black, any meal that the company paid for in blue, and any meal a friend or family got me in green. I am also starting with August 30, because that is when this long trip began. It doesn’t always work out to start the first day of the month.

Some background about me before starting. I have three siblings. Two brothers: Eric and Mark. And one sister: Neely. At work, I have multiple account managers that I work closely with. Two of my coworkers I mention in the book are also named Eric and Mark. I will not be naming my company in this book, or the names of any customer I visited. I do not keep my employment a secret, so I am sure you can figure out who I work for and who I visited. Locations and names of people in this book are all real, as are