REP CORNER
Caught by Sales Tim Morris didn’t pursue medical sales. Medical sales pursued him. And he couldn’t be happier. McKesson Medical-Surgical account executive Tim Morris and his wife, Jessica, were youth ministers for about six
years after college. “People often ask me if I miss being in ministry,” he says today. “My response is always the same: ‘I never left it.’”
Instead, his experience in ministry helped Morris develop a servant attitude toward all people, including his physician customers in southeast Georgia. “I try to serve my customers so they can serve their patients.”
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Morris was born and raised in Pittsgrove, New Jersey, about 40 miles south of Philadelphia. His parents – Jake and Susan Morris – were teachers in the same school system. His dad sold swimming-pools on the side. “My parents were both extremely hard workers and loved being teachers,” he says. “I cannot tell you how often we would run into former students who would come up and say hello. It was evident to me at a young age that my parents truly cared for their students and loved helping them see and fulfill their potential.” He graduated from Asbury College (now University) in Wilmore, Kentucky, with a major in Christian ministry. “My wife and I met at a very young age and were married young as well,” he says. “I would say my goal in college was to experience life with her, and to convince her to marry me. Toughest sale of my life. From the moment we met, we became best friends, and I just wanted to share life with her.” After her youth ministry work, Jessica began graduate school to pursue a degree in education. (Today she is a professor of reading and literary education in the Teacher Preparation program at the Coastal College of Georgia in Brunswick.) Meanwhile, Tim took a job selling TV ads for a local news channel to earn some extra income. “Long story short, I loved sales,” Tim Morris and family. he says.
