Happily Telemarketing is one of the lowpaying jobs I never had, though I did work as a janitor for nearly a year. Perhaps it says something that increasingly in the U.S. with our highest per capita incarceration rate that prison inmates are "hired" to do this. I mean, who doesn't want to give their credit card # and address to a convicted inmate? (winking to indicate this last sentence is facetious.)
I tried selling cards and cookies and candybars a couple of times as a child but gave it up as unpleasant, even though most of the people answering the door back in the 1960's were pretty pleasant.
I have zero experience as a political canvasser, but often have been willing to stop, to listen, to read thru and perhaps sign a petition - or else tell the canvasser as politely as I can why I can't sign this, or sorry, I don't have time today (when in a hurry.) I've even had a couple of interesting conversations with political canvassers. The ones just working to collect signatures for their commissions, don't have time for me or vice versa, I've found. As with telemarketers, if we can't have a discussion, we're not having a conversation, hence Cya! Bye!
Re: Dead Sea Lion Removal & other occupations
Happily Telemarketing is one of the lowpaying jobs I never had, though I did work as a janitor for nearly a year. Perhaps it says something that increasingly in the U.S. with our highest per capita incarceration rate that prison inmates are "hired" to do this. I mean, who doesn't want to give their credit card # and address to a convicted inmate? (winking to indicate this last sentence is facetious.)
I tried selling cards and cookies and candybars a couple of times as a child but gave it up as unpleasant, even though most of the people answering the door back in the 1960's were pretty pleasant.
I have zero experience as a political canvasser, but often have been willing to stop, to listen, to read thru and perhaps sign a petition - or else tell the canvasser as politely as I can why I can't sign this, or sorry, I don't have time today (when in a hurry.) I've even had a couple of interesting conversations with political canvassers. The ones just working to collect signatures for their commissions, don't have time for me or vice versa, I've found. As with telemarketers, if we can't have a discussion, we're not having a conversation, hence Cya! Bye!