Of cars and scam sales jobs
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So, this morning, my parents e-mailed me and said they were buying me a car. A 1978 Oldsmobile Delta 88 (they think) last owned by a now-deceased elderly acquaintance of ours. Old, but well-maintained, with a new engine put into it three or four years ago. All they need before they can give it to me is for me to get a steady job so I can afford insurance payments, gas, and maintenance. It will probably guzzle gas, even with the new engine, and let me in for that low-mileage-car tax I'm told Obama is going to institute…but on the other hand, hey. Car. Ability to drive to other cities at a whim.
My parents certainly know how to motivate me.
So anyway, also this morning, I got a call from a marketing company in response to a position I'd applied for via Craigslist. It promised to be $15 an hour, which sounded good to me; that was about 1 1/2 times what I made at Mihlfeld & Associates. They scheduled me for a 2:00 interview, so I caught the bus right on down.
I should have known it was too good to be true. Turned out to be they wanted to feed me a high-pressure presentation about selling CutCo knives. Not only did I sit through such a presentation once already a couple of years ago, but my brother actually tried it for a while and found it to be something of a scam. So I made a hasty excuse to skip out on the presentation, and left so quickly I forgot my cap and sunglasses and had to go back for them.
Feeling altogether disgusted at the waste of time, I took the bus back uptown, had a café mocha (iced) at the Rendezvous coffeehouse, then transferred to the bus back down to my place. When I got here, I phoned the other job interview lead I got, a life-insurance sales and service position. They're interviewing Wednesday at Panera on east Sunshine. I'm a little suspicious of this position, too—when I google, I find the company in question, C&C Financial, was named as a fraud defendant in New Jersey. It makes me a little leery, but the only way to find out is to check them out.
Onward, upward, and hopefully jobward.
So, this morning, my parents e-mailed me and said they were buying me a car. A 1978 Oldsmobile Delta 88 (they think) last owned by a now-deceased elderly acquaintance of ours. Old, but well-maintained, with a new engine put into it three or four years ago. All they need before they can give it to me is for me to get a steady job so I can afford insurance payments, gas, and maintenance. It will probably guzzle gas, even with the new engine, and let me in for that low-mileage-car tax I'm told Obama is going to institute…but on the other hand, hey. Car. Ability to drive to other cities at a whim.
My parents certainly know how to motivate me.
So anyway, also this morning, I got a call from a marketing company in response to a position I'd applied for via Craigslist. It promised to be $15 an hour, which sounded good to me; that was about 1 1/2 times what I made at Mihlfeld & Associates. They scheduled me for a 2:00 interview, so I caught the bus right on down.
I should have known it was too good to be true. Turned out to be they wanted to feed me a high-pressure presentation about selling CutCo knives. Not only did I sit through such a presentation once already a couple of years ago, but my brother actually tried it for a while and found it to be something of a scam. So I made a hasty excuse to skip out on the presentation, and left so quickly I forgot my cap and sunglasses and had to go back for them.
Feeling altogether disgusted at the waste of time, I took the bus back uptown, had a café mocha (iced) at the Rendezvous coffeehouse, then transferred to the bus back down to my place. When I got here, I phoned the other job interview lead I got, a life-insurance sales and service position. They're interviewing Wednesday at Panera on east Sunshine. I'm a little suspicious of this position, too—when I google, I find the company in question, C&C Financial, was named as a fraud defendant in New Jersey. It makes me a little leery, but the only way to find out is to check them out.
Onward, upward, and hopefully jobward.
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Job-a-Rama
Date: 2009-06-15 09:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-06-16 03:44 am (UTC)Are you on Monster.com or anything like that?
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Date: 2009-06-16 08:24 pm (UTC)I still have the demonstration knife set, though. Say what you will about the company, the product is pretty good. (At least, it was back then.)