Tuesday, December 14, 2010 ' 6:27 PM
After prom night the next day onwards i went to see internet classified job ads and went to spam my CV to each and every job offer that i think i can manage.
But i sent it to all those admin and data entry ones (about 20-30, yeah serious) but only 1 gave me a call to say they'll submit my CV to their client and tell me results next day but that one the next day also no news at all from them.
Seems like these jobs are in hot demand eh damn you people.
But i managed to get a flyer distributor job and a mascot job, yes you didn't see wrongly, a mascot job, you know, wear a stuff animal costume and entertain irritating kids.
Well the flyers job ain't that special or spectacular, so i decided to make it less boring and went to "actively" give them out. It's not much, but i think that if i just stand at one spot giving flyers out, many people will just ignore you, plus stand there see people walk past also very boring.
When i am doing this job itself, somehow i feel i should really appreciate it when next time i see people giving flyers to me.
And by "actively", i meant walking around to pass them the flyers, and not forgetting to smile as sincerely as i can, and saying thanks when they accept it.
I got to see all kinds of people, some would politely reject and smile at you even if you had approached them more than twice, some would only smile when you smile at them while giving, and some would give you jiao bin and ignore you, plus saying a "Go Away" before they go.
For the last kind of people, i seriously wanted to give them a bitch-slap.
And for the mascot job, it was to wear the Giant supermarket mascot, the green dinosaur one. Last saturday was at tampines Giant, and sunday was at Jurong IMM Giant and Vivo. Next saturday at Parkway Parade and sunday at some other location i forgot.
I thought wearing the mascot was a fun job, but no. When wearing the head, my vision is limited. And it's kinda hot inside. But all these i can tahan, if only the velcro to hold the mascot dress together isn't loose and needs to be re-velcro-ed every 10 minutes or so. It's super irritating, my movement is restricted to not open the velcro accidentally, and more importantly, my shirt is exposed when the velcro is open and when people see it, the entertainment value drops as they are reminded that there's a person inside and will remember that this green dinosaur they see is actually a human. It seems obvious, but think it as, a stranger and a furry cute green dinosaur, which one would you actually go hug?
But a more irritating thing, is this kid on saturday. He kept bugging and bugging me for the whole duration when i was in the mascot. Yes all the time, 8 hours in total. Imagine this same irritating hyperactive kid sticking along with you, asking stupid questions every half minute and keep asking you to do stupid things that you can't do in a mascot with a loose velcro.
He needs a bitch slap as well. But of course, i've got to be all friendly and lively.
(On a side note, i find it interesting that my mood and personality, especially after work, is the direct polar opposite of how i am when giving flyers and being a mascot.)
But on other times, i see that i am actually bringing smiles to both the children and their parents, so it's a good thing though.
Anyways, yesterday i almost got tricked into joining a multi-level marketing scheme. It's a company called Premier Pure. And i felt scammed, i thought i actually got a real job, but turns out when i get there, it's not an interview, it's a talking session by some girl who's very good at talking and explaining the structure of the promotion system and boasting about how much one can earn if he/she join, but she can't beat my intelligence though. I noticed she skillfully side-tracked every time i ask her about specific details about this scheme.
But i saw a schoolmate as well, and by pure chance, we were together when the mlm agent was trying to sweettalk us into it.
I kinda felt i have a duty to warn her about mlm, and today i came down hoping that i will meet her, but i didn't see her.
I guess she, as well, didn't give in to her greed and join them.
Damn it. I want a stable admin/data entry job with nice salary. But they are selling like hotcakes.
Sleep with the trauma that kept you sleepless
