I am a quitter--Thank God

Trip Start Jan 12, 2008
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Trip End May 10, 2008


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Friday, February 1, 2008

So my first day on the job was quite interesting.  Basically, I became the person I hated.  My job:  stop as many people as possible in the mall and try to get them to sign up for month to month donations for Unicef.  I tried to stay as open minded as possible; I was working for a great company doing something that would eventually teach me valuable people skills and would teach me how to sell.  I could also go home at night feeling good that I was raising awareness and money for a great charity.  The pay was commission-based, but really good.  For each sale, we were paid $70 and most people averaged 3 sales a day.  On my first day I made one sale--everybody back in the office was very impressed, this was encouraging.  On my second day, I made 4 sales, my boss and fellow employees were so surprised, as was I.  So maybe I wasn't bad at this!  So adding up all the positives, I felt like this was a great job, a real job, and something other than waitressing that I can put on my resume.  I was movin' on up...

...except for the fact that:  I ABSOLUTELY HATED DOING IT!!!  I hated selling and bothering and annoying and having old men tell me that these kids are just going to GROW UP AND BOMB US ANYWAYS (so the answers were to just get rid of them).  yep.  And the hours-- I was to be at work at 7:30 in the morning and didn't get home until 7 at night.  I didn't come to New Zealand for this!   Sooo, after 3 days of wanting to stab my eyes out with a fork, I QUIT.  Ugh, it was so hard to do, but I guess, at the same time, easy. 

Back to waitressing I guess...

There's an Irish Pub across the street from my apt. that has a really "chill crowd".  It has bands every night of the week so I think it would be a fun atmosphere.  And I love that NZ has no smoking in the pubs, I'll be able to breathe.  Just took my resume there today, waiting to hear back from them.

Since I quit my job on Thursday, I had all of Friday for myself.  I went to the Cathedral Square a couple blocks away and watched a band, people playing a life-size chess game, and artists painting a huge mural.  Later that night I went along with my roomate Anca and her work friends to a Mexican-themed pub where they had a Latin dancing night.  These people were so good! 
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