- 5 Clues You're in The Wrong Job or Career
Five clues that you may have chosen the wrong job or career. - Career Cycles: From Phones to Phones
I started my career at 18 by being a full-time telephone collector. I made outbound calls to late-paying credit clients, and when I was successful, they’d commit to resolving their delinquencies by a certain date. Then, I became a top outbound telemarketer and manager for Time-Life Books, and you might say, though I’d earn numerous degrees that helped me, my career was determined at that time.But why did I choose phone work?I chose it because I was baby-faced at 18, and though I had no little intelligence and drive, and a mature, trained voice, few believed I could handle a face-to-face selling job, and working in supermarkets or at fast food joints wasn’t for me.So, my youth drove me to dialing and smiling.But this isn’t where my story stops. I expect my career will be cyclical, that I’ll return to the phones once more - How to Make Sure That Reference Doesn’t Hurt You!
n a perfect world, all of us would have impeccable credentials and gushing references. Even Trudy would have them. Who is Trudy? I fired her for multiple reasons, not the least of which was the fact that she crashed a company car and wasted a lot of desk time flirting on the computer. "I'm a natural blond" one of her missives cooed. Within about six months of her departure I got a phone call. "I realize I didn't leave under the best of circumstances", she said, nearly weeping with contrition, "but I'm job hunting right now".
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