First Job

Working in an office setting is so frustrating, irritating, stressful, and depressing. I have been in sales everysince high school. I got hired at Sears Marketing Center in my senior year that march. A friend of mine told me about that job in class one day. I asked my mother to take me to fill out an application. I went and was hired on the spot. I accepted a position as a telephone sales rep. This was the first taste of the real world in the workplace. My job was to sit at a cubicle in front of a computer and wait for calls to come in on an automatic dialer. I had to sell maintenance protection plan options to customers who brought appliances from sears. The quota was to sell at least ninety one percent of your contacts to receive a bonus for the month. I found the job to be easy. The difficult part of the job was dealing with the office atmosphere and the people that I had to work with. I was only 16 yrs old. I was exposed very quickly to grown ups and how they act younger than me. I was shocked and how women well in their twenties viewed me as a piece of meat and acted like wild animals in mating season. The management were power tripping to the point that the lights actually flickered from time to time. I have seen and been involved in workplace scandals, affairs and confrontations. I was not mature enough to work around immature adults who wanted to have more fun than I did. What was sad, I worked there until I was 19 years old and saw many high school kids come there and get "turned out" by the real world. This is just my first office job. I dated older women who wanted only to brag to the others that she landed the young dude. I wish I had the insight I have now. Maybe those experiences gave me this insight. My introduction into the real world was wild. My best friend worked with me there for a couple of years and we thought we were the luckiest guys on the planet to have such a playground at our disposal. Looking back, we were the ones loosing out. A lot of time I waisted pursuing women and a social life that branded me as a "player". Now that I look back. It is embarrassing.