My worst jobs? I can sum them up as follows:
- Flogging big ticket items.
- To people who weren't really quite sure if they wanted them.
- And couldn't make up their minds (if they had 'em) to save their lives.
- Or insisted on pinching every penny until it begged for death's sweet embrace.
- With no sales training.
- From managers who were overweening, interfering morons.
The first one was my fault; I'd never
had a job before; but the second one, I was initially hired to do web and print ad work - however the manager thought that being able to make ads meant I should be able to assist in making actual sales. Which I couldn't. Since I am a gentle soul and not capable of the gentle coercion that sales requires.
And certainly not putting up with workplace bullies.
The thing is... after those hell jobs, I'm beginning to think they've turned me right off the idea of working. Most distressing.