The Moment of Dream Come True

I am the person who doesn't like to say negative things.  I'd rather wait until everything has positive come out and then share with my friends.  It's about the time to tell you guys what really happened to me in the past two weeks.  

It was really a horrible period of time in my life.   I used to love my job and enjoy what I was doing.  I like sales job as well, but NOT door to door sales.  Where is the strategy?  Althought I've known this was a sales position since my second-round interview, it turned out to be totally different from what I initially thought.  I had to go to my territory visiting each single business store by store, floor by floor, and street by street during the terribly hot summer.   Due to the fierce competition in the US telephone service market, Verizon, the client I was working for, has more than one outsourced sales and marketing parter in an area, and due to the fast turnover in my company, they kept sending people out to the same territory.  All of these reasons resulted in Verizon people coming in all the time, at least twice a month, according to one customer.  People hate soliciting.  "I just can't figure out what's wrong with Verizon?  We have Verizon people come in every week.  Please take me off of your list.  I don't even need this(handed a brochure mailed by Verizon)."   "I am sure I have the lowest rate. I don't need any chages."  "I am all set.  I am not interested.  This is not about the right time.  I am busy.   The person in charge is not in....."  These were the words I heard every day for the past two weeks.  I was so sick of hearing this.   It was really really a big waste of my time.

I've always been positive in my life, but right now I feel so helpless.  I don't like my job.  Althought another company called me for an interview today, I just don't wanna work any more in my last precious two months in the US.  I 'd rather work on the things I really enjoy, that is language learning.  I asked my supervisior yesterday if I could take a leave of absence for language training and then came back afterward.  She said she doesn't think it would be a problem, but she needed to ask the manager and let me know the result the next day.  Unfortuntely, I got her message today.  It didn't work out.   ~><~

What am I gonna to do?  I NEVER, EVER feel so helpless in my lifetime, partly because i am in a county where my parents and all friends are all far away from me.  I just couldn't help but cry.  Everytime when I feel helpless, i miss my friends, boyfriend and family in Taiwan so much.  In the past, whenever I felt upset, frustrated or depressed, I always knew who was the person I could call, and who would support me no matter anytime anywhere.  I wanna go home and meet them as soon as possible.  Especially thank my boy friend's endless and unconditional support emotionally and finacially. 

Yes, "the things you don't get - those lessons are sometimes more valuable than the ones you do get."
It's a so valuable American interviewing experience.  Thinking it's also a part of my US advanture, right?

I experienced so much and learned a very authentic American business culture - the relationship between employee and employeer is really FAIR.  They don't like to take advatage of employees, just not like Taiwan.

I never thought that "overqualified" would be a problem in my life, but it did happen!   Why I can't do an easy and simple job??   Yesterday I had an interview with Philip for a web developement Internship position.  The result came out not very positive.   Okay, anyway, it doesn't matter at all, since I already have a job offer, which means I still can remain in so beautiful Boson area.  Go get some professional suits and outfit for yourself!!

Ha, it has long been my dream in my life, wearing high-heel shoes with business suit and briefcase. I dreamed about that since I was in my teenage. 

Tomorrow I will meet up with 怡鈴&秋樺 and start our wonderful vacation in Florida 

I GOT A JOB OFFER!!  Oh my god!  I am freaking out!   I am sooooooo excited!!

Now I don't need to worry about my job any more.  I don't need to do worse case scenario - looking for a language school.  I can go back to my regular life schedule - learning things that i am really interested in -language, going to the gym(although I just went one time, I've decided I'll go more in the futre), going to parties and hanging out in Boston!

That company called Boston Solutions Internationl (http://www.bsiboston.com/) is a premiere oursourced sales and marketing firm in the Greater Boston area.  They have provided promotional and sales support for Fortune 500 companies such as Sprint, AT&T, Energy America, Stamps.com, American Express, AOL TimeWarner and Verizon.  The client i'm gonna to work with is Verizon, a telecom company with a monopolistic position in Massachusetts with 80% market share.   I, as a Verizon's Account Representative, have to visit their clients, most of whom are small and medium businesses, in person and across sell more products to them.

 
This is gonna be the most inspiring and wonderful news never then ever besides admission to the exchange program.  
 
To turely understand a language and to speak like native speakers including both speed and accent (my goal), I think 4 months is not enough.  That's why I was eager to extend my duration of time in the United States.  However, before I came here, all of the information all told me it's not gonna be possible to extend my J-1 visa, which made me upset for a while.
 

How Students From Abroad
Learn to Talk the Talk
November 6, 2007; Page B11

Lisa Yuan, a first-year M.B.A. student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, spoke English on the job when she lived in China and felt pretty competent. But she says she now realizes "there is much room for me to improve."

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