Great Outdoor Provision Co. - Chapel Hill
Great Outdoor Provision Co. - Chapel Hill
1800 E Franklin St
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
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Some people have an influential mentor who helps determine their career path. For others, their vocation is determined by lineage, by fate, by channel surfing.
Chapel Hill Store Manager Chad Pickens’ career was launched by a burst appendix.
“We ate at a giant salad bar one night, then watched a terrible movie,” Chad recalls of the series of events that would determine his career path. “My stomach was feeling funny when I went to bed. I figured it would be better by morning.”
It wasn’t. Come morning, he could barely stand and his abdomen was badly swollen. Maybe I should get this looked at, he thought. Immediately.
He limped to his car, managed to drive to WakeMed’s Emergency Department, walked in the front door, threw up in the first available trash can, was quickly ushered into an exam room, and within a couple hours had his appendix removed — right about the time it burst.
Complications ensued and he was in the hospital for a month. During his stay and accompanying rehab period he had time to think. He was working part time at the old Great Outdoor Provision Co. store in Raleigh’s Crabtree Valley Mall, part time in human resources for UPS, part-time as a mechanical engineering student at N.C. State.
“My plan at the time was to pursue a career in engineering or logistics like many of my friends. But laying in bed I got to wondering whether that was what I really wanted to do.”
Delivering bazillions of boxes worldwide under tight deadlines or helping outfit people headed out on great outdoor adventures? Hmm.
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