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Reminds me of the time I got an out-of-the-blue offer for a job
interview for a position selling life insurance. I tried to tell the
caller that I had no experience in that line of work (with the
implication that he was barking up the wrong tree). He said, with a
level of dejection that I now suspect was feigned, "Well, it's not
everyone who can make $100,000 per year," and ended the call.
Later I got a second call from someone else at the same company. I had
nothing to lose by coming to the interview, so I agreed and was given a
time to show, at a conference room at a local hotel.
I got there, dressed for an interview and bearing a CV, and discovered
that it was NOT a job interview in the sense of what we envision when we
hear the words "job" and "interview" in that order. Instead it was a
pitch to a group of us (about twenty) to persuade us to enroll in a
training program to obtain a life insurance sales license. (If you work
hard enough, you can earn $100,000 per year in commissions. That's
where _that_ figure comes from.)
The fee for the training was $100 (or thereabouts). After the spiel was
over, we were directed to line up to be processed separately. When I
got to the head of the line the lady handling things asked me for the
$100 fee, at which point I told her that if I could come up with $100 at
a moment's notice, I would not have come looking for work. I added some
more cross words that I will not repeat here.
That night I went back to job I already had.
Regards,
John
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