Wednesday, October 1, 2008

My job

Now I am an authorized contractor of a marketing company called VMG to sell the American Express cards in the shopping malls. Of course I have to sell the produces to every people who pass by, and for sure, selling in English (*&%&^$#####!!).

As mentioned, I don’t have the basic salary, all I get depending on how many cards I sold – I can get $35, $45 or $60 Aus per card. The paid seems good, but as my colleagues said it is hard to get enough money in the first month. And the working hour is 8 am to 7 pm, six day per week. Let’s see how long can I stand for it.

It is really tough for me to sell credit card because I never had one…I used to think that credit card is evil and I have never done any kind of sale or retail job before. So, me, selling, credit card, in the shopping malls, and especially, selling in English!!(The company forbid all the sales use others language to sell).

Life is un-expectable.

PS: the good new is, in the third day of my job, I have gotten one sale!!!! Then in the fourth day, I have gotten one more. Hope that I can keep this.

7 comments:

Haster said...

congrad!
hope you'll be the top sale soon!

enjoy your trip and take care!

Stan said...

It's also my second week of my job. I've had two conferences over the week already. Next month then Reading. I would then realise what's the real meaning of the word "busy". I wish I could be in Aus, HK, China whatever ...

Good Luck then!

Eric Spanner said...

hmm... credit cards link to loans, with high interest, no instant payment (given you do not have any sum outstanding), and bundling sales (ie, credit card - loans - investment services - other services...) which leads the evil images of it (semi loan sharks, corporation ruling, heavy consumer consumption...) needless to say some payments have to make with credit cards.

But I think - perhaps I have not been changed my view on credit cards in my college days - it can be used in a manner which utilize cards' little goodies, i mean deferred payment or cash / score rebates. just alert, if you can.

hmm... to me, it is not easy to be a sales... my little experiences told me already. wish you good luck.

Aster said...

my superior is one of the top sale of my company, he made me understand how difficult to be a top sale..

actually my job is not busy, it just need 12 hours per day. when you love you job, you don't need to work. As i came here for challenge, i love my job~

HAHA, what Eric mentioned are all my biggest challenge - can i sale something that i don't agree with? but i believe that at least i can learn how to sale~ all these are about how to deal with people.

Odelia in Newcastle said...

sometimes it is difficult to convince yourself to believe those evil stuff can do little goodiesss, however, you just sell it, magnify the good and dun think about the bad would be fine ^^~~ , glad to hear your newsss!!


Miss you much, and still hv 1 week to stay in this town, right?

邪楊.樹雄 said...

Selling something you hate is a good way to review your inner-self. You have one more chance to think.

Great! Keep on!

ksum said...

I am thinking you can rewrite Camus's "The Stranger". Of course, make Part 2 into a happy ending.

With respect to selling something that you do not agree with, think of yourself as Bruce Wayne in Batman -- having $ buys gizmo and clout to bring down the undesirables of the city. One step at a time, tiger.

Credit cards speed up the velocity that money supply move around the economy -- you are pumping stimulants into Aussie's economy. Your drop is as if riding a helicopter to drop $ over Australia. Our world economy depends on you.

Plus, selling plastics is a nice thing -- you save some trees in rain forests across the world by dispensing the needs to print out paper money. In turn, air quality in HKG gets better due to your efforts in Australia.

Carry on...