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...
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