I have a job! Well...yeah, no duh.
Basically, my hours at work have been cut. A lot.
For a month or so I was getting around 30 hours a week. Then, for the past couple weeks, I've been getting about...10. If that. And next week? Six and a half.
So I've been thinking about aplying at other places. I have stuff to pay for! And I owe Rockvalley money that I have to pay by the 22nd of July. I may only be 17, & I may still live with my parents, but I can't live on $48 a week.
Then I get this thing in the mail about a job & blah blah blah. It didn't really have much information, & seemed sort of weird, so I didn't even think about it. I figured they were recruting telemarketers or some thing.
When I found out that I was getting six & a half hours on the next schedule...telemarketing didn't sound so bad. Ya' know, just for a while.
So I submitted an aplication online, & had an interveiw only hours later. Pretty...expedient.
I went to the interveiw. Watched this demo thing. Filled out more papers. Turns out it wasn't for telemarketing, & it wasn't for door-to-door sales people or some thing annoying like that.
It was more along the lines of...Those jewlery parties? Except you make appointments with people one on one, show them the products, & so on. If I were to take the position, I'd be selling knives & stuff. They were really sweet, I'd buy one if A) I needed any knives & B) I had money to waste on knives that would be better spent on bills, gas & tuition.
It seems pretty laid back. For every appointment you are paid $15, even if the person you were meeting with didn't buy any thing. But if they did you would make %10 of the sale, or $15, which evers higher. So there's no presure to be that pushy sales person totally focused on numbers.(Which, my job seems to be turning into.)
It's some thing I think I could do, but I feel like I'd enjoy it even less than my currant position.
I hate having to sell things. I'm some one who knows what they want(at least when it comes to shopping, going to cafes, looking for sweet knives, & so on), & I don't need sales people showing me all these other great things their company thinks I need. I don't want you to tell me that the next size up is only 10 cents more, & I'll get four more ounces! I don't want you to tell me that if I buy one more I can get another for free/half off. I don't want to listen to you preaching about the differant merits of this great thing or that great thing.
It's bad enough where I work now. Baileys' putting so much emphasis on sales, hours are based on how well you sell. Rather than your great rapport with the customors, or how you can wip out drinks at an incredable speed(& have every drink taste great too!), or you abillity to juggle three jobs at once(making fraps, lattes, & helping the next customor at the same time? That takes tallent!) or whatever skills my favorite co-workers might have.
[Please note: I was not saying that I have any/all of the qualities listed. But a few of the people I work with do, & their hours have been slashed just as much as mine.]
So as much as I may want to, I don't know if I can take this job. If I'm not going to enjoy doing it, I'm not going to do it well, & if I'm not doing it well it wont even be worth my time.
But...My stubborn side is yelling at me now.
I talked to Chris right after the interview, & he was trying to talk me out of taking the position I was offerd. So even though I disagree with his reasons, & I have my own reasons for not taking the job, I don't want to admit it to him.
I can be quite obstinate.
But, I am not one of those pertinacious sales people that wont take no for an answer!
Ok, when I first got home from the interview I was thinking I'd take the job, then later on(as I was starting this blog) I was unsure & planned to talk to my mum about it before making a decision, but now I think the decision made it's self.
I do need more hours, I do want a differant job. But I wont be any happier with this one. There for, I shall leave an opening to be filled by some one more worthy/desperate.
Whew! There's a load off my mind! I'll call tomorrow & let them know.
Love & OH SHOOT I FORGOT TO GET GAS TODAY!
Ariel
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