I got a job working for Response Marketing. And, to my surprise, I love it.
Response Marketing is an outbound call company. We have different teams who call for various things (for example, one group calls people who have shown interest in wanting to start or go back to school and gets their information sent out to different colleges). I call people and offer them free tickets to different real estate seminars in their area.
It's a little hard sometimes, just because people don't like telemarketers. Most of the time, everyone is really nice about it, even if they aren't interested. Every once in a while, you get a person who's mad at you for calling or who is upset that we have their information.
It's fun talking to the different people, though. It's surprising to me at times what people will tell a complete stranger over the phone--just personal things like that they're getting a surgery or going through a divorce. I had one old grandpa explain all about how real estate works. People will tell me all about how gold is the new investment to be making or that today happens to be their nephew's eighth birthday. Even when I don't make the sale, I usually enjoy the phone calls.
It's fun to try to make sells. A "sale" is when a person lets us send them tickets, or information, about the event. It's free, so I don't feel bad trying to push them onto someone. It's really fun when a person who doesn't want the tickets or is out of town the day of the event or something and I can talk them into letting me send them the information anyways. Those are nice sales because I feel like I earn them.
The best part of the job, though, is the time between calls. We actually have a lot of times between calls, especially when we get a lot of answering machines. We are allowed to do whatever we want during that time, as long as we're not on our cell phones. So far, I've read. It's so nice, but it will be even nicer when school starts and I have homework to be doing.
My job is so flexible with hours. You can go in basically whenever, as long as you get your hours in. That is so nice for my schedule. Between work and dance and everything else I'm doing, any kind of job where I have a set schedule everyday is pretty much impossible.
The pay is good, too. It's only eight dollars an hour, base, but commission is so nice. If you hit the minimum amount of sales required, you get fifty cents an hour commission. This week, I made three dollars an hour commission, so eleven dollars an hour. Then every six weeks, they give you a twenty five cents raise. I think it's because they don't have very good retention, simply because it's a college city and also because it can be a really boring job. I'm lucky I love reading so much, and that I can read with all the noise going on. If I couldn't, I would DIE of boredom.
As it is, though, I found the perfect job for me right now. I'll probably stay with them until Ben and I are done with school.
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