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After two months of absence I guess everybody has floated away to other destinations. Serves me right, of course, I can't really expect people to stick around for months as I say nothing and remain quite. Oh well, all I can hope for is that you all check back every so often in fond remembrance.
In the mean time I'll continue talking about what I've been doing. Lets start at my last post before the silence. Basically I was still complaining then off how things were horrible and I had no work and all that. Well, the silence was basically caused because then I found work.
I ended up trying to get people to sign up for charities on the street. It was hard work, normally about twelve hours a day, but I needed to grab at any log that could keep me afloat. I spent about a month working my butt of doing that. Ended up being promoted, becoming a leader with the right to start setting up my own team (I would have made commisions off of every sale that the people I trained made as well as I what I continued to sell for myself.)
After about a week of that I gave it up. I got scolded for saying something to somebody on the street and realised that I would never be able to keep my big fat mouth shut. Nor, for that matter, did I want to. They were trying to change me and I had no desire to be changed. I like my honesty, even if other people don't, and I wasn't about to drop that simply to make a few more sales and offend a few less people.
So I told them, that same day, that I was out. Left the field, went to the office and gave them back their stuff. The boss, some young guy of 24 who was a very skilled speaker but still a guy of twenty four, couldn't help but try to place some below the belt shots, when I left. That just helped to reinforce that that really wasn't the industry for me. Making money of other people's charity just didn't really sit all that well with me, and his personal focus on the money, rather then the humanitarian side of things ended up crushing any motivation that remained.
It was his friendly and open behavior that had first drawn me in and then the glimpses of his greed and egocentric behavior that ended up pushing me away again.
Basically, as I'm typing this, I find that I let myself be conned by a sales man. Fortunately, I managed to walk away with my dignity intact and enough money in my pocket to look for work elsewhere.
Find it, I did, but more about that when I next get a chance to post (probably monday, or so).
posted by Symbol @ 1.4.05
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