mshcherbatskaya said:
Cold-calling sales? Oohhhhhhh Khell, I'm so sorry. I tried it and it nearly killed me. I hope you get...demoted or something. I dunno. Damn. I've had jobs that I was willing to die to get out of, literally, and outside sales was one of them.
Also, high school sucked, I would never go back. My 20th high school reunion is supposed to be this summer. If I had a couple of tear-gas grenades, I might consider going.
I never tried outside sales. For one thing, I'm almost totally face-blind, and your customers really expect you to recognize them. Plus you are often expected to lie to people; even as an engineer I'm sometimes expected to lie as a matter of course, and people are amazed that I won't even though there are two other engineers just like me here. (Well, not just like me; they are nicer and not as strange. But they won't lie either.) I did work retail until I got enough college to get a job in engineering. General Public did not deserve commissioning, and I find that with any job the less you see of General Public the happier you'll be.
As to high school, I loved high school. Not necessarily the work, which is generally impossibly boring, but the socializing aspects. And some of the school work was interesting. As to reunions - I went to my first, and that was enough. When you don't see someone for ten years, there's probably a reason.
I would think the lumber business would be pretty interesting, Khell, although imagining who you'd cold-call is beyond me. It's not like you can go door-to-door: "Hello, ma'am. I've got wood, and I was wondering if you might want to buy some?" SLAP!
Anyway, as long
as I wake up, I'm happy. Saturday and Sunday are best, but I'll take what I can get.
