Tuesday, April 06, 2004
Mmm, doughnuts!
Hey there,
Well since I last wrote I have been to two interviews for a new job. I was half excited about them since they were for "Marketing" firms, but the first one was for a job where you arrange appointments by phone to call to people's houses and try to sell them CUTCO cutlery. The money was good but they said that I didn't have enough contacts in Calgary to get started, because they get you to do presentations for people you know and then get them to call their friends to organise more jobs for you etc. The guy doing the recruiting for the job looked younger than me (and thats young!), and he looked like he was wearing his dad's suit which was that bit too big for him!
The other interview, I was brought out for a day into the "field" (it's always a bad sign when you hear that!), to see what the job was like. So, as you have probably already guessed, it was door-to-door selling, trying to get people to change from one phone company to another. The work and the hours was crap. For 8 hours of knocking on people's door, the guy I was with, got 3 or 4 sales. Pretty disheartening work really. But everyone working there is aiming at owning their own offices one day. They each build up teams of sellers and eventually when you move up the ranks to having your own office, you can just sit on your ass all day and cream commission off all of the slaves you have out door-todoor selling!! Again, good commission, but not my cup of tea!
Had interview today for Norwest Labs. It's a chemical labourer job - cutting, marking and bagging oil samples. Starts tomorrow. We'll see how it goes til something else comes along!!! So today I went off after the interview to buy steel-toed boots for the job and dropped into Krispy Kreme (oooooohhh! Heaven!)
For all you Irish reading this, Krispy Kreme have just arrived in Calgary and there have been queues, and people directing the traffic for the drive-through window since it opened, about this day last week. But you can't understand it......until you taste it! And queueing for it today we were all handed a sample as you walk through the line, and actually see the doughnuts being made, as you wait behind the other 400 people in the queue in front of you!!!! Well worth it though, even after the queue, and almost eing blown off the road today by the wind - crazy weather again! I think I got more wind-burn!
I was supposed to be helping Ryan out at the Church for the Stations on Good Friday, but it all depends now on what hours I'm working. Ryan has invited us to spend Easter Sunday with him too, so that should be fun.
Oh, and we finally got our clocks put forward an hour, a week after all of ye at home, so its back to a 7 hour time difference.
Well, thats it for now.
Take care
Dave
Well since I last wrote I have been to two interviews for a new job. I was half excited about them since they were for "Marketing" firms, but the first one was for a job where you arrange appointments by phone to call to people's houses and try to sell them CUTCO cutlery. The money was good but they said that I didn't have enough contacts in Calgary to get started, because they get you to do presentations for people you know and then get them to call their friends to organise more jobs for you etc. The guy doing the recruiting for the job looked younger than me (and thats young!), and he looked like he was wearing his dad's suit which was that bit too big for him!
The other interview, I was brought out for a day into the "field" (it's always a bad sign when you hear that!), to see what the job was like. So, as you have probably already guessed, it was door-to-door selling, trying to get people to change from one phone company to another. The work and the hours was crap. For 8 hours of knocking on people's door, the guy I was with, got 3 or 4 sales. Pretty disheartening work really. But everyone working there is aiming at owning their own offices one day. They each build up teams of sellers and eventually when you move up the ranks to having your own office, you can just sit on your ass all day and cream commission off all of the slaves you have out door-todoor selling!! Again, good commission, but not my cup of tea!
Had interview today for Norwest Labs. It's a chemical labourer job - cutting, marking and bagging oil samples. Starts tomorrow. We'll see how it goes til something else comes along!!! So today I went off after the interview to buy steel-toed boots for the job and dropped into Krispy Kreme (oooooohhh! Heaven!)
For all you Irish reading this, Krispy Kreme have just arrived in Calgary and there have been queues, and people directing the traffic for the drive-through window since it opened, about this day last week. But you can't understand it......until you taste it! And queueing for it today we were all handed a sample as you walk through the line, and actually see the doughnuts being made, as you wait behind the other 400 people in the queue in front of you!!!! Well worth it though, even after the queue, and almost eing blown off the road today by the wind - crazy weather again! I think I got more wind-burn!
I was supposed to be helping Ryan out at the Church for the Stations on Good Friday, but it all depends now on what hours I'm working. Ryan has invited us to spend Easter Sunday with him too, so that should be fun.
Oh, and we finally got our clocks put forward an hour, a week after all of ye at home, so its back to a 7 hour time difference.
Well, thats it for now.
Take care
Dave
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