I had a phone interview this morning with BigCo. The job sounds similar to my work on a crisis hotline but the crisis line was housed with other counseling programs so I also saw clients in person. The position would be strictly phone based, the woman I interviewed with described the office to look like a call center. Working in a cube with a headset kind of makes me shudder.
It reminds me of my two least favorite jobs. I worked as a telemarketer during undergrad for a few months, convincing people that had a certain company’s auto insurance that they should also buy that company’s life insurance. I hated bugging people, following the script and I ended up getting fired because I talked so fast and stuttered so much no one could understand me. The best part was when my boss pulled me into his office and said “Have you ever been in speech therapy?”
The 2nd worst job was when I worked for a temp agency doing data entry. I had to battle rush hour traffic to get there by some awful early hour and type meaningless numbers all day until I wanted to cry. I lasted a week. I think i described the job as “soul sucking” to the temp agency person when I called to quit. I worked as a waitress after that. That place is a story for another day.
So I’m a bit nervous at the prospect of having a job that requires me to work a 9-5 in a call center environment. I have an in person interview later this week and I will wait until then to decide if this job will drive me to make paper hats that say “monkey push the button” and cry on my way to work.