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Jobless in 2010

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Today I was looking back at college. The days of carelessness and ignorance. The days where you could wake up at 3:00pm and not be in any sort of trouble. Now, however, is the time of decisions. What job should I take? Where should I live? What salary should I accept? I feel like these ideas float in my head daily, which isn't a bad thing, but when will I answer them? The answer is simple. Whenever I get a job. A problem some might see easily corrected, but in my case... not so much. I have been looking for the right job for about 6 months now and it's starting to wear on me. I know 6 months is a long time, but I'm not gonna to settle for a gig as a car salesman, insurance salesman, or real estate agent. Not that those are bad jobs, just not for me. The fields I'm looking to get into are marketing, advertising, or any internet job. Those are my passions and that's what I'm going to do... end O' story. You would think these would be easy jobs to land, but in my experience, it's not. It seems like every interview I go to the results are always the same. No, you don't have any sales experience. You don't have any sales experience? Come on people, of course I have sales experience... just not business sales. I always try to portray to the interviewers that just because I don't have any b2b sales experience doesn't mean I'm not qualified. I've had just about every job under the sun a 24 year old could have. Let's see... ummm... I've held a job since I was 14 and sometimes two at a time. I've been a bartender, cashier, construction worker, pizza maker,mover, sandwich maker, marketing rep, painter, audio installer, retail sales (Tweeter, American Eagle, Dick's Sporting Goods), and even lasted a week on an assembly line at Maytag (I wasn't made to stand in one spot for 10 hours a day... sorry). The reason I list all these jobs to interviewers is to show that if I can hold and excel in all these positions; which should only clarify that I'm a "Will Do" kinda guy ("Can Do" is too cliche' for me), the kind of guy that's good with helping and solving peoples needs. Not in their eyes though. They still see a big fat "O" in the number of years of b2b sales experience column. I guess I'm gonna have to get some b2b sales experience before I can get a job in marketing or advertising, which I will gladly do if I can find one. I know this is getting long, so I'll touch up on the rest of this discussion on another day.

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