door to door or outsource sales?

I recently went to a job interview and it was related to marketing. Nevertheless, there seem to be places that try to trick you into working for them. They vaquely explain what the job entails and then the next thing you know you are a door to door sales person. Beware! They called it outsourcing sales, in reality you will approach offices and try to sell them the new plan. I did not continue with the interviews, however a friend of mine did and he said that it was door to door sales at offices. Lesson learned; be wary of the term outsourcing sales.

First Impressions

I had an interview this afternoon for an internship. The open position is for either summer or fall, from 10-20 hours a week. The company deals with book publishing and marketing. I’m very excited for the possibility of this job because I hope to go into editing after I graduate college. The woman I spoke with said that they will always hire from former interns and have many free-lance employees. Apparently, I would have the opportunity to be one of these free-lance editors even next year, while I’m still in school. Any extra money to pay the bills would be fantastic!
I like to think that the interview went well. I hope it went well.

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So Many Choices

It’s been a long time since I last posted something. I have recently been struggling with some family issues, as well as the day-to-day chaos of juggling classes, work, homework, extra-curricular activities and attempting to prepare for my senior year of college. Needless to say, it’s been crazy.

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I Need a Credit Internship!!!

I have been doing extensive work looking into and applying for internships. Everything keeps coming up negative and it’s getting frustrating. I want to be an editor, so I have looked at a variety of magazines, made a call to the local newspaper. I’m actually looking into television studies as well, just in case there’s something in the newsroom I could do. I have even broadened my search to out-of-state locations, like Chicago, D.C., and Baltimore, as well as the type of work I’d like to be doing (one internship possibility was at a business magazine, which has no appeal to me at all).

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CLARIFY WHAT YOU WANT

My task at work today was putting together 205 self-appraisal packets for our faculty and staff members. I was not given enough materials to complete this task, so I simply made photocopies of what I didn’t have (which is pretty common where I work). My boss had even left a note saying that copies were acceptable. So I made copies of each of the three parts. As I was copying the final part, she walked past the copy room and said, “This is unacceptable. You are doing it all wrong. This is no good.” Exact words. Apparently, her note was supposed to mean that copies were okay for certain portions of the packet, but not for others (if copies were absolutely necessary for the third part, then I needed to put them on special paper).
Is it so difficult to clarify what you want? Her note said “Use the green sheets or copies.” She had stacks of copies leftover from the last set of appraisals. I also have seen many of these forms before, completed on the simple kind of photocopy that I was making. I know it’s not a big deal (in fact, it’s actually rather petty, I know), but it’s simply annoying because I wasted so much time. I had other projects that I could have been working on had I not been standing in front of the copy machine all morning.

Anti-Independence Job

It’s only the second week of January and I am already feeling the pain of being broke. Getting paid once a month is too hard to deal with. I’m a student and it’s the beginning of the semester. I need to buy books and paper and highlighters and all of those kind of things, but I can’t because I don’t get paid till the last work-day of the month (January 31st). Come then, I will obviously have had to purchase everything I need for classes on my credit card, where it will sit and collect interest that I can’t pay.

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9 to 5

I worked my first 9-5 day yesterday. It wasn’t as bad as I anticipated, but it was still fairly mind-numbing. I am glad that I don’t have many days like that on my schedule (only when I don’t have class, which isn’t often). I spent two hours sorting mail in the morning. There was a lot of it because of the holiday. Then I did a little bit of filing, pulled out inactive personnel files, faxed something, and then set to the photocopying.

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New Year, new here

Hello. I’m new to posting here so I thought I’d tell you a little bit about the job that I have as an introduction.
I’m a junior at a public college in Pennsylvania. I have a part-time job with the administration of one of the departments. I have worked there for a little over a year, between 15 and 20 hours a week. It’s a great job to have as a full-time student because it’s not very demanding, there are no nights or weekends, and I make decent money. Actually, I feel like I make more money than I should ($8.84/hour). My job entails sorting departmental mail, running errands, filing, photocopying, and preparing paperwork for university processing. I have helped to prepare a slide presentation for one of the department professors. Most of the time though I just sit at my desk and read.

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