I had a short stint doing phone sales telemarketing. It was horrible.
=laughs= Yeah, me too. I was in high school, and it was a job I could do from home on my own schedule, since it was straight commission. This was in the 1960s, when telemarketing was far from the major problem it became in the 90s ... and I wasn't even selling anything! All I wanted was to take an application over the phone for a JC Penney charge card (this was also pre-Master Card and Visa). But I still got abused -- they'd yell at me and/or hang up on me. I hated it, and didn't last very long either -- about a month, I think, and I only managed to keep it up that long because it was very, very part time. I just did it less and less, and finally simply quit altogether.
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=laughs= Yeah, me too. I was in high school, and it was a job I could do from home on my own schedule, since it was straight commission. This was in the 1960s, when telemarketing was far from the major problem it became in the 90s ... and I wasn't even selling anything! All I wanted was to take an application over the phone for a JC Penney charge card (this was also pre-Master Card and Visa). But I still got abused -- they'd yell at me and/or hang up on me. I hated it, and didn't last very long either -- about a month, I think, and I only managed to keep it up that long because it was very, very part time. I just did it less and less, and finally simply quit altogether.