Remember that interview I had last week?I got the job.
Score! It's my first office job. Even if I hate it, I'll finally have something to put on my resume as work experience other than "Retail Whore" or "Human Sponge".
The job is at an outbound call centre for a shareholding company.
Now, I know what you're thinking ... "That's telemarketing, you poor dumb girl! You took a telemarketing job!".
Don't worry. I'd sooner stand on Jarvis street wearing nothing but sandwich boards reading "SUCK FOR A BUCK" than take a telemarketing job. No, all I'll be doing is making calls to existing shareholders, giving them information on their shares, and trying to get them to vote on what should be done with said shares over the phone. That's about all I know so far. I start training tomorrow, and I'm sure I'll learn more. But I was promised there would be no telemarketing or sales of any kind involved.
I'm not sure how I'll like the job, since I'm not exactly "thick-skinned" (despite all the retail I've done), and it does involve pestering people at home (even though I'm not selling anything, and even though, presumably, these people care what happens to their money), but hopefully I'll get used to it. If I start to stress out, I'll just say to myself "You're making 50% more than you did in retail AND you get to sit down.", and that ought to put things into perspective.
But first things first .. I have a couple of weeks of training to complete, at the end of which I'll be tested. Trainees have to get a minimum of 85% in order to stay on board. They didn't make it sound too hard, but we'll see how it goes.
The important thing is, for now, I've finally got a freaking job.
Woohoo!
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