"Sure. You want me to put together a presentation to show what ShipStore's all about?"
"Yeah, maybe some slides breaking down the different job descriptions."
"And a little background on ecommerce maybe..."
"Sounds good."

And so it was decided at the end of last week that Captain Jim and I would attend "career day" at the Elizabethtown-Lewis Central School located about fifteen minutes away from our offices.

We met at ShipStore this morning and packed up a couple of oversized flat screens, Jim's nearly two thousand pound Mac "super computer", a couple of our new catalogs and then headed off to Elizabethtown. We were admitted to the school after signing in (a post-9/11 precaution) and headed off to a gymnasium/assembly hall where tables had been set up for local businesses.

We had a good time chatting with middle school and high school students about what we do. Some questions about how a small Adirondack company can have customers all over the world! Several students filled out interview sheets as assignments for teachers, and others gawked at the slick flat screen monitors. Lots of students asked if we were like Amazon or eBay! Some day, hopefully...

We also had the opportunity to chat with an US Army recruiter about his experience recruiting students and his own years in the service. He served in Iraq early on, and the rest of his troops are over there now without him. He was disappointed to have been selected for recruiting duty rather than going off to serve with the troops he's helped train.

The photos here are of the new addition to the school and of me being interviewed by a middle school student. Nice posture, George! Must be too many hours driving my laptop...