Setbacks

Quite a few days since my previous post yeah...pretty eventful week I must say...In short, I failed myself twice, or maybe even thrice, over the course of this week.

Firstly, I stopped going for the job as tele-surveyor...The incident was as such, the second day I turned up for work, I was assigned to call numbers off the classified ads. It was meant to get some advertisers to respond to the survey. The major setback to me, which is part and parcel of this job, is to get scolded by people. After that happened I literally blanked out...the fear of calling the same number again was tremendous and became worse with every call, and so I ended my short day at work.

Second failure came when I tried this job with a company that claimed to be looking for people to join their events crew. It turned out that their current event was doing publicity for a charity. Of course that involved fundraising as well. In any case, the charity is really deserving of help. It's acronym is HOME and it stands for Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics. The organisation help to uncover and protect abused foreign workers in Singapore. For more info, do visit their website at http://www.home.org.sg/

Anyway, as for the job, I really wonder why I found the rejections so tough to stomach. After all, I had my challenging cases back with Starhub. But that was all very fun to me. This fundraising one wasn't...maybe because of the general populace's negative attitude towards people who need help. On reflection, probably I've better understood that the job is desire is not sales or marketing, but customer service, solving people's problems and bridging relationships with them on behalf of the company.

I'm getting kind of desperate though, probably wouldn't be as picky as to avoid admin and factory/packaging jobs when I look for my next job in the coming week(s).

As for Forex, I suffered major losses since the GBP/USD actually took a unexpected, to me, turn in a strengthening stance for the GBP. Apparently, I need a lot more polishing to better my technical skills.

Also, I'm gonna get involved in discussion on Intelnova's forum on Forex to learn from the experts. The next step would be to read Forex traders' blogs.