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.
The things I was thinking about were why I need to do a job that makes everyone dislike me, and act rude to me. Why do I need to do a job that makes me so miserable? Even though people in my company always said, "Don't take it personally, don't take it seriously, just have fun!" It was not fun at all. I don't want to walk all day for nothing, and for free.
I've learned a lot of selling tactics, cultures and experiences about American small and medium businesses. That's really enough! It's about time to leave! I am glad that I've planned out a good last months in the US. Walking on the campus of Harvard, all of a sudden, I found fulfillment and peacefulness in working on the things I really enjoy.
That would be soooo exciting! Go embrace my student life in Harvard!
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