10,000 years I've searched it seems...

[jenioctavia]

Maybe if I wasn't this completely pathetic clinging entity that can only express her feelings through text...
...what? Maybe what? Heh. That's sad, I don't even know the answer to that. I just know that I hate myself for it. I do know that there's a reason my headphones are still on right now, a reason for my putting off my homework even more, the TV on mute, ignoring the words of my roommates even as they try to speak to me and hug me...a reason why I'm not happy when everything is saying that I should be. ...depression, angst, all the things that pull me down.
And as I sit here I get the distinct feeling I've managed to some how rub alot of people the wrong way in the past few days...or more recently, in the past few hours.

*sighs*
So I'm sure everyone's wondering about this mystery job that I some how by some fucked up stroke of luck landed.

I'm walking through the cafeteria to go make my lunch between classes on Thursday and just by chance stop by the job bulliten board. I see a flyer (one of maybe three actually posted) for a decently paying job and look it over. Labor work. Ugh. Job none the less, so I grab it and start to take it back with me to my table. My foot, though, steps on another flyer, detatched from the board, bright yellow with black lettering declaring 'Summer jobs! Students wanted!' but no description of the work. I call the labor one first, find out when interviews are being held and plan to go the next morning. Call the next one after I eat as I'm heading out for Dye Learning Center to use the computers. The lady is incredebly nice, tells me its for a company called Vector and that they're having interview screenings and that she can get me in at 6:30 that night. I'm a little weary of it, as its just slightly far (Clackamas, right across from the Town Center), but agree to it and give her my name.

Head there right after class and find it really easily. Its alot like LiveBridge was, with a bunch of people filling out apps and being pulled in to a room for interviews. I grab an app and fill it out then patiently wait my turn. We're pulled in in groups of 2-3, I wind up with a really nice girl named Natallia as my 'partner'. The interviewer (Matt. Oh the irony) says we both have some really good qualifications and if we want to stay there's going to be an hour long orientation to those who are interested in the position, and then a small final one-on-one interview at the end. We were going to be there until about 9, but Natallia offered me a ride back home.

Matt explains that the company is some subsidiary of another one that's been in buisness since 1949, that they sell kitchen cultery, and that its not telemarketing or door-to-door sales, but something strangely in between. People are reffered to the company by friends and what not, and they call in to make appointments for hour long presentations about the product and then decide if they want to buy. Its good shit, too. Really tough knives and stuff that can like...cut through leather like it was nothing. I kinda want a few. o.o;

Anyway.
After all that was done I went in for the last interview. I wasn't terribly nervous until about the last few minutes of it as I realized he was going to come to a decision. And suddenly he sticks his hand out and says "Well, Jeni I think you're a great canadite for this job and I'd live to offer you a position." Gawd my heart hit the ground. ._. After he gave me the training information and the paperwork I ran out of the office and called Beth.
"Love me, worship me, kiss the ground I walk on. Guess who just got the job!.""You got it?!"
Ahha, great reaction. Not as good as Mike's later that night.
"Ohh Mikey, guess who just got a job~"
"...YOU GOT A JOB!!?!!??!!!"
xD Great shit.
So...
It pays 15 dollars per appointment (which is essentially 15 dollars an hour), 10-30% commission per sale (Your rate increases the more times you sell), whichever is higher for the weeks end. Hours are incredebly flexible and they LOVE having students because they're the ones always looking for temporary jobs to get them through college and wind up signing on full time. Dunno if I will or not, but yeh never know. My training starts Thursday and ends some time next week, but I start feild training on the fourth day. x.x; Hope I'm ready for this...

Yeah, I can find some things to be happy about right now. SOME. I suppose a huge part of me is still stressed out about everything that I have to take care of, all the bills that need paying...Ahh I'm just gonna go take a shower. Maybe that'll make me feel better. ._.

Comments

[calisasilvertai.livejournal.com]

That sounds pretty cool, Hon. At least it's something that's not hard to sell. Maybe you can get some soon after you start working there, then you can add personal experience to your sales pitch!