Employment

So I started my new job today.
I call people and ask them surveys they don’t want to complete.
Not quite a telemarketer, because I don’t actually sell anything. In fact, all I do is take from you.
I’m totally teletaking.
Unsurprisingly, this job is easy as hell. Almost as unsurprising, it is boring as hell.
I can’t complain though, it pays well, and requires little to no thought on my part.
But I can’t help but think that I would much rather be in many other jobs.
Jobs which I can’t do because they conflict with school. Like baking. Or painting.
What I like about those jobs is that at the end of the day
you have something that you can point to and say “That’s what I did today!”
Today I called literally hundreds of people. Two completed the survey.
That’s what I did today.
I’m not disappointed in this, as I have absolutely nothing invested in this survey.
In fact, people not answering makes my job easier. It also makes it more dull.
I couldn’t think of any little game to play with myself and the folks I was calling
because for the most part, they weren’t actually there.
In truth, I may have spoken to 40 people today, and that is on the high side.
Most numbers I called were answering machines or numbers that don’t exist.
(Thanks, autodialer!)
So for four hours today, this was the only song that came to mind. Appropriate.