Call me Jimmy Buffett. I grew up in Florida on the beach when Florida had less than half the population it has now. Although I am formal when I need to be, I am in Flip Flops, T Shirt, and Shorts at most other times, and a northern variation of that in the Winter up here. I am comfortable in my semi-Northern habitat. To folks from Minnesota, this is the Deep South (DC area). To me, its a nice compromise, four seasons, generally mild climate except Jan and Feb. The snow this past Winter, although more than Syracuse usually gets, was beautiful.
To my point, When I am not with a client, at a networking function like I will be tonight, or at a formal gathering of some sort, I will almost always be wearing Flip Flops, T Shirt and shorts. Occasionally, you may see me in a fine restaurant dressed that way like Old Ebbit or Smith and Wollenskys in D.C. It depends what I am doing when I get invited to lunch. I have actually had clients call me to view a house and I was actually near them in the District. I said I had to go home and change and they said, forget it, just come as you are in your T Shirt, Flip Flops and Shorts. When I have non-pretentious clients like that, in this case a Doctor, its wonderful but I really do not feel comfortable doing business that way. I am more concerned about running into other agents or brokers and looking unprofessional to them then I am with clients who know that I am Mr. T Shirt, Flip Flops and Shorts.
I rarely go into my office unless I need to use their high speed, high tech equipment. I can do in ten minutes what I can do at home in an hour as far as printing scanning and sending contracts. i do change and you will rarely ever see me in the office, unless it is late at night, wearing anything but professional attire. I usually wear a polo type shirt and slacks if not a buttom up shirt and sportcoat (rarely a tie though)
So here I am enjoying a breezy early Summer day outside with my laptop, taking and making calls in my T shirt, flip flops and shorts
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