We recently had the chance to connect with Patrick Turner and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Patrick, thank you so much for taking time out of your busy day to share your story, experiences and insights with our readers. Let’s jump right in with an interesting one: What are you chasing, and what would happen if you stopped?
I earned my first dollar at 10 years old in 1970 by carrying cases of beer and soda from the cellar of a neighborhood store and restocking the cooler on the street level. I had a period of unemployment in 1981, another in 2000 and 2001 but I always knew that I’d get another job and have another paycheck in the future.
I retired from my real job 4 years ago with the comfort of knowing that I had a consulting deal for a year at one day a week. Two days ago, 47 months later, my consulting gig finally ended and I just realized that I will never get another paycheck in my life.
Money isn’t an issue or a worry, We’re just fine…….but it’s very weird to think that I’ll never have another paycheck.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I started painting again April 1st of 2020 during covid. Whenever it’s above 60°, I’m painting in my screen room. I need the natural light and the sounds of nature….until someone starts a mower or leaf blower!
I paint what strikes me and i like each new painting to have something new to me, that I don’t exactly know how I’m going to get the look that I see in my head.
After 43 years, I left my job as a Supply Chain Director for a manufacturing company and until the other day, I consulted one day a week, golf another day, walk 5 to 9 miles on another day and usually paint for 3 to 5 hours on each of the remaining days.
Thanks for sharing that. Would love to go back in time and hear about how your past might have impacted who you are today. What relationship most shaped how you see yourself?
Perhaps it’s being the baby of 5 in an Irish Catholic family from Central New York; I had it pretty easy. My older brother and sisters had already done anything that i could possibly do and my parents were in their 50’s and tired, so i pretty much had free reign. I was raised talking about my dad’s job at the dinner table and I learned how to manage people from my dad in those discussions. Everything that I ever needed, was learned from my dad. Two things that stuck with me forever: unions were brought about by bad management and the best managers seldom if ever tell someone what to do, they ask them, period.
What fear has held you back the most in your life?
It’s not as much a fear as it was a ball and chain. I went to college for a semester after high school and dropped out and got a job as a quality control technician 350 miles from my home. From 1979 until I retired in 2021, it would come up at least once a year throughout my career but I wasn’t going to sacrifice my time with my family to get a piece of paper that only affirmed the doubters beliefs. I coined an expression when I started consulting that pretty much summed up the way that I’ve always felt, without actually thinking it: regardless of who’s in the meeting, I’m the smartest person in the room.
Sure, so let’s go deeper into your values and how you think. Is the public version of you the real you?
Of course not! While I am fun loving, I’m not nearly as secure and worry free as I appear, and it’s not a conscious effort on my part, it just is.
Thank you so much for all of your openness so far. Maybe we can close with a future oriented question. What do you think people will most misunderstand about your legacy?
No one understands how much I feel for people and how much I care about the people that I’ve worked with, managed, and met for even a brief conversation in my life. There’s so much that I routinely can’t remember, but I remember every person that I’ve ever spoken with.
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