Interview #3
I think I've learned my lesson about career builder, monster, after college, and all of the other major job sites. That is, they're about 90-99% bs! Ever since I graduated I've asked just about every individual I've encountered looking for a job about any of these job sites and none of them have said to me that it worked for them. The response is usually the same: "I applied to x-hundred jobs on there, and nothing back!" I have this theory that monster.com is nothing but a huge information guzzler that sucks up your resume and sells it to lord knows who and makes lord knows how much money off of it. They must. After all, no one has ever claimed getting a job off of it, right?
Anyway, rant aside I go to my third "interview" with a company generically called Exclusive Advertising. This time the website works, and it's actually not a bad one. The people are somewhat friendly and the manager seems to like me, he immediately invites me to a second interview. This is when we talk about pay, advancement, benefits, and any other major thing you'd be looking for in a career. I don't get why we can't do this now instead of a future meeting. Actually, in retrospect I do understand why, it's a cheap trick to hold your interest because in reality there's no pay, no advancement, and no career. This is yet another door to door sales company that duped me into thinking that they are something else. Pay is commission only, and no one wants to buy anything from a door to door salesman.
It's actually quite entertaining. To get you interested in the business they send you out with one of their "leaders" (mine had only worked there a month) to follow them for a few hours and see how much fun they have selling crap. Keep in mind, according to the job posting you have to desire a "fun and exciting work place." So we go house to house, and every house it's the same thing. No interest. What made it fun was the different ways people came up with to express the feeling of "leave me the hell alone." It was that which I got the biggest kick out of. My advice to anyone out there who is a victim of a door to door salesman: go ahead and be as rude to them as possible. No joke. Be elaborate. Have fun with it. Because no matter what you do or say, if you don't buy something you are automatically labeled an asshole by the seller. All day I hear, "Oh, they're assholes," "they're jerks," "they just don't know a good deal so F them." The people they find to do these jobs are just unbelievably naive. Don't you understand the simple notion of not wanting someone banging on your door to sell you crap you don't want? Is the concept that hard? It's not a new one. There's a reason most communities have gates around them, and it's not just for crime. You're annoying! Go away! This person actually tried to lecture me on how door to door was the future of marketing and that within 5 years EVERYONE would be doing door to door. Oh yeah, and that shitty little thing called the internet, that's just some fad for losers like spandex and the slap bracelet. In the words of Jerry Seinfeld, "Who are these people?"
So of course I passed on the jobs offered to me over the past 2 weeks, and I reported the false listings to the appropriate job sites, though I doubt that will accomplish much. I know my current job isn't all that great, which is why I got in to all of this in the first place, but I did realize that things could be worse in life. I'm nowhere near being the executive or entrepreneur that I hope to be, but thank god I'm not knocking on people's doors and selling crap for a living. If that's the future then we can only hope that we really are living in the Matrix.
Anyway, rant aside I go to my third "interview" with a company generically called Exclusive Advertising. This time the website works, and it's actually not a bad one. The people are somewhat friendly and the manager seems to like me, he immediately invites me to a second interview. This is when we talk about pay, advancement, benefits, and any other major thing you'd be looking for in a career. I don't get why we can't do this now instead of a future meeting. Actually, in retrospect I do understand why, it's a cheap trick to hold your interest because in reality there's no pay, no advancement, and no career. This is yet another door to door sales company that duped me into thinking that they are something else. Pay is commission only, and no one wants to buy anything from a door to door salesman.
It's actually quite entertaining. To get you interested in the business they send you out with one of their "leaders" (mine had only worked there a month) to follow them for a few hours and see how much fun they have selling crap. Keep in mind, according to the job posting you have to desire a "fun and exciting work place." So we go house to house, and every house it's the same thing. No interest. What made it fun was the different ways people came up with to express the feeling of "leave me the hell alone." It was that which I got the biggest kick out of. My advice to anyone out there who is a victim of a door to door salesman: go ahead and be as rude to them as possible. No joke. Be elaborate. Have fun with it. Because no matter what you do or say, if you don't buy something you are automatically labeled an asshole by the seller. All day I hear, "Oh, they're assholes," "they're jerks," "they just don't know a good deal so F them." The people they find to do these jobs are just unbelievably naive. Don't you understand the simple notion of not wanting someone banging on your door to sell you crap you don't want? Is the concept that hard? It's not a new one. There's a reason most communities have gates around them, and it's not just for crime. You're annoying! Go away! This person actually tried to lecture me on how door to door was the future of marketing and that within 5 years EVERYONE would be doing door to door. Oh yeah, and that shitty little thing called the internet, that's just some fad for losers like spandex and the slap bracelet. In the words of Jerry Seinfeld, "Who are these people?"
So of course I passed on the jobs offered to me over the past 2 weeks, and I reported the false listings to the appropriate job sites, though I doubt that will accomplish much. I know my current job isn't all that great, which is why I got in to all of this in the first place, but I did realize that things could be worse in life. I'm nowhere near being the executive or entrepreneur that I hope to be, but thank god I'm not knocking on people's doors and selling crap for a living. If that's the future then we can only hope that we really are living in the Matrix.
Maybe you should try LinkedIn.com. It might help you with jobs and a career. It's new age career networking. I haven't used it to find jobs yet but I've been building up my network in case I do in the future.
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Thanks, I'll check it out.
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