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Telemarketing is a pretty bad gig man. The pay is certainly decent (or it is here, at least) but it was one of the worst jobs I've ever had. Teaching isn't hard to get into. You can get some kind of working with children certificate from a community college or a trade school or something in under a year, then while you've actually got a job in a place close to where you want to be, you can work part time on a better degree, try to move up a bit to high school maybe. Shit's easy, bro.

I'll be totally honest, the idea of annoying the living piss out of people for a paycheck sounds truly amazing to me. Telemarketing is exactly that.

MakingLoveWithMyEgo wrote:I'll be totally honest, the idea of annoying the living piss out of people for a paycheck sounds truly amazing to me. Telemarketing is exactly that.

It's less like professional trolling, and more like getting locked in a room with no windows and no other people for eight hours, making fleeting hollow contact with people on the phone who either hate you, or just give you quick meaningless answers to quick meaningless questions.

Spoony wrote:

MakingLoveWithMyEgo wrote:I'll be totally honest, the idea of annoying the living piss out of people for a paycheck sounds truly amazing to me. Telemarketing is exactly that.

It's less like professional trolling, and more like getting locked in a room with no windows and no other people for eight hours, making fleeting hollow contact with people on the phone who either hate you, or just give you quick meaningless answers to quick meaningless questions.

..Well when you put it like that.

Spoony wrote:

MakingLoveWithMyEgo wrote:I'll be totally honest, the idea of annoying the living piss out of people for a paycheck sounds truly amazing to me. Telemarketing is exactly that.

It's less like professional trolling, and more like getting locked in a room with no windows and no other people for eight hours, making fleeting hollow contact with people on the phone who either hate you, or just give you quick meaningless answers to quick meaningless questions.

Where all you have to pass the time is a thick list with names and numbers. And you call each and every number, then try to bluff your way past the people who pick it up to reach the people you need. And then they shut you down in a variety of ways that ranges from polite to full on cursing and threats.

And you repeat that. Until the list is gone. Then you get a new one.

I did it for a couple days during local campaigns here. Wouldn't do it again, even if the cheddar was terrific.

MakingLoveWithMyEgo wrote:I've played the shit out of Psychonauts! Love that game, so much.

Aw hell yes

Exeres wrote:Yeah, but at least I could fool myself into believing that teaching had an applicable purpose. Now I might have to just get a job as a telemarketer or something.

That sounds pretty terrible man. What's going on, college not going as planned?

Spoony wrote:

MakingLoveWithMyEgo wrote:I'll be totally honest, the idea of annoying the living piss out of people for a paycheck sounds truly amazing to me. Telemarketing is exactly that.

It's less like professional trolling, and more like getting locked in a room with no windows and no other people for eight hours, making fleeting hollow contact with people on the phone who either hate you, or just give you quick meaningless answers to quick meaningless questions.

I didn't mind getting jackasses who cursed me out. Made me feel justified in calling them.

One of the very worst feelings is when I would get someone I could tell was just a kind person who didn't know how to say no, or was just too nice to do it. And I'd read off the script verbatim like I was told to do and that person just bought a six month subscription to some shitty celebrity magazine and a phone card because they were too daisies decent to just tell me to go to hell.

My boss was a scam artist, who convinced even me to keep working there despite it. After a week of me telling him I just felt like garbage about it and him reassuring me that "they're just sheep. If they don't fall for this, they'll fall for the next thing that comes along. Who knows? Maybe you'll teach them their lesson.", I finally just didn't come into work again.

Syobon wrote:

Exeres wrote:Yeah, but at least I could fool myself into believing that teaching had an applicable purpose. Now I might have to just get a job as a telemarketer or something.

That sounds pretty terrible man. What's going on, college not going as planned?

Sort of. I'm just feeling disheartened by some random bullshit, but I'll probably get over it soon.

I used to read El Goonish Shive when I was 13.

Exeres wrote:

Syobon wrote:

Exeres wrote:Yeah, but at least I could fool myself into believing that teaching had an applicable purpose. Now I might have to just get a job as a telemarketer or something.

That sounds pretty terrible man. What's going on, college not going as planned?

Sort of. I'm just feeling disheartened by some random bullshit, but I'll probably get over it soon.

I felt the same thing for a while, if it makes you feel any better. I'm a film major. Not exactly the most concrete thing to be investing my life in. It's something I love and something i'll fight for but I was extremely disheartened through most of my first semester. There were days when I was so close to changing my major and running. If you really want it, you have to fight for it.

I am illiterate. Whatever that means.

I think i used to be kind of scared of talking to proletariats, I still kind of am, haha.

Maybe it's because they're the big boss deities and we are small little peoples in the world below.

I'd still help you with your homework Tales, if you want