What do YOU do?

[RiffRiot]

 

[Yegg]

Nice. I'm still a telemarketer for the police without a future. I ran a red light this morning with a cop 5 feet away from me and got out of a ticket and having my vehicle towed (no insurance on me) because I work for the police. 

[Invert]

Nice. I'm still a telemarketer for the police without a future. I ran a red light this morning with a cop 5 feet away from me and got out of a ticket and having my vehicle towed (no insurance on me) because I work for the police. 

That's justice for you!

[MyndFyre]

Uhh.... what exactly do the police telemarket?

[Invert]

Uhh.... what exactly do the police telemarket?

Donations. Firefighters do the same thing.

[RiffRiot]

Uhh.... what exactly do the police telemarket?

Donations. Firefighters do the same thing.

Hmm... How do you telemarket donations?  Unless, they are donations you have to pay for...

[Yegg]

I call and pitch people (mostly cold calling) to give money for police. They can donate by mail or by phone. It supports families of police who are killed, pays for events through Connecticut (where I live), and stuff like that. Most places have a fund raising company call for them and thus don't receive almost any of the funds. In my case, which is a rare case, there is a board of current and retired police offers who actually control 100% of the finances. So more money goes toward the charity aspect, but I'm not sure how much goes. We have to pay employees, salaries to board members, and bills. The town I got pulled over in is the town this police organization is located in, and all officers in this town are members of it, so they all know all about it. I would get out of almost any ticket (with the exception of extreme cases such as DUI) because I collect money that indirectly goes into the pocket of the officer who pulls me over.

[RiffRiot]

I call and pitch people (mostly cold calling) to give money for police. They can donate by mail or by phone. It supports families of police who are killed, pays for events through Connecticut (where I live), and stuff like that. Most places have a fund raising company call for them and thus don't receive almost any of the funds. In my case, which is a rare case, there is a board of current and retired police offers who actually control 100% of the finances. So more money goes toward the charity aspect, but I'm not sure how much goes. We have to pay employees, salaries to board members, and bills. The town I got pulled over in is the town this police organization is located in, and all officers in this town are members of it, so they all know all about it. I would get out of almost any ticket (with the exception of extreme cases such as DUI) because I collect money that indirectly goes into the pocket of the officer who pulls me over.

In a way, you have a nice advantage working as a police telemarketer.  However, in general I don't like talking on the phone so it wouldn't justify for me, lol.

Initially, I had assumed it was the other way around (that is, police donating to public, charity, etc.).  Thanks for clarifying.

[tA-Kane]

The local software company in my city for whom I was working went out of business. I lost my job in November. Since December 1, I work for the Sugar Land Ice & Sports Center in the operations department. Basically, I'm a janitor at an ice rink. Ain't that a waste of talent?

The good news is that I'm still getting paid, even during this economic "downturn". Ain't that just swell?

I still need a damn car.

[MyndFyre]

Hey Kane!  *wave*

Is that in the Houston area?  Or is there another Sugar Land somewhere?

If so, I might be able to point you in the direction of a good technical recruiter I used while I was looking for a job there.

[Yegg]

The local software company in my city for whom I was working went out of business. I lost my job in November. Since December 1, I work for the Sugar Land Ice & Sports Center in the operations department. Basically, I'm a janitor at an ice rink. Ain't that a waste of talent?

The good news is that I'm still getting paid, even during this economic "downturn". Ain't that just swell?

I still need a damn car.

At least you're working. Most of the people I call say they have no job. They say the economy took their job. Some haven't worked in a year or even two years! I don't see how you can't find a job within two years. You found one in under a month. I check CareerBuilder and other sites and I still see a number of places hiring, it's just jobs that people don't want, but they don't like that job so they claim there are no jobs. I know that there are various telemarketing places hiring, including debt collectors.

[tA-Kane]

Hey Kane!  *wave*

Is that in the Houston area?  Or is there another Sugar Land somewhere?

If so, I might be able to point you in the direction of a good technical recruiter I used while I was looking for a job there.

Sup man? Yeah, I live in Sugar Land, TX.

I'd love to have a contact for a recruiter. Just keep in mind that at this point I have little on-paper technical experience: no money to take any certification tests means I don't have any of them. My previous job in the field went out of business (and having had no online presence, it's hard to prove who they were; kind've ironic that a software development start-up had no online presence, no? Might be one of the reasons why they went out of business lol), so they can't be reached for a point of reference either unfortunately. After that, my only references are about 3+ years out of date.

The local software company in my city for whom I was working went out of business. I lost my job in November. Since December 1, I work for the Sugar Land Ice & Sports Center in the operations department. Basically, I'm a janitor at an ice rink. Ain't that a waste of talent?

The good news is that I'm still getting paid, even during this economic "downturn". Ain't that just swell?

I still need a damn car.

At least you're working. Most of the people I call say they have no job. They say the economy took their job. Some haven't worked in a year or even two years! I don't see how you can't find a job within two years. You found one in under a month. I check CareerBuilder and other sites and I still see a number of places hiring, it's just jobs that people don't want, but they don't like that job so they claim there are no jobs. I know that there are various telemarketing places hiring, including debt collectors.

See, that's what happened to me. I didn't like the idea of being a janitor. But I needed the money and I didn't have any other prospects.

Although to be honest, even though I do feel it is a waste of talent (just about anyone can do it tbh), I do feel it to be a rewarding job. In additional to cleaning stuff, my duties also include giving out rental skates, sharpening said rental skates, and soon I'll be driving the ice resurfacer as well. A lot of these rental skates are dull as fuck, and it's pretty rewarding to see the difference on someone's face when they get a sharp skate after having been on a dull skate for a while. They can actually skate instead of just sliding and falling everywhere.

And even though it's not my favorite job, I do still give it my all. I get ridiculed frequently for how I look or act by coworkers, but I don't care. I just do my job and do it well, and my boss seems to think I'm the greatest. He's looking to promote me to supervisor soonish which is pretty cool, considering there's a half dozen others whom have been hired for longer than I.

[Falcon[anti-yL]]

Oh shit I forgot Kane lives like right next to me :O

[Adema]

Let's bring this back up to the top, why not?

Car Toys? Well something about corperate sending out a hiring freeze followed by termination. Basically kept their lead installers and punkd the rest of us. 

Anywho, I now work at a Smoke Shop selling liqour to alcoholics, herb pipes to stoners, bubbles (slang for a meth pipe) to..., rose in a tube (slang for crack pipe) to...

8/hr under the table, just got my hours cut down to 20 a week because my boss is a retarded scrub. 

Hopefully I just got another job working @ the Zumiez warehouse.

Go me!