Just say yes

The trouble with working in sales is, I don't always take no for an answer.

Following my rather brain stabbingly boring day yesterday, I spent a few minutes looking for jobs this morning. I hate recruitment consultants, particularly those who work in media sales, as they tend to be ex media sales peeps. As a result, they are constantly trying to sell you into jobs you don't want!

End of the day they have a vacancy to fill, just like one might have 1 full page left to sell - so they treat the candidate like a piece of paper and try to sell/ slot them right in that last space.

I was chatting to one the other day and I clearly told him I had no interest what so ever to work in £$%", so he obviously asked "why not". I reluctantly told him, knowing he was only asking me so he can get round those reasons and turn them into yes' - it's the oldest bluddy trick!

He proceeded to rattle on for about 10 minutes trying to turn those "no's" into "yes'" whilst I stood there thinking *god you are such a DIPADA!*

So he finished his plebian speech and left me screaming in my head *god please i hope i don't sound like that!*

Anyhoo, he asks me what I then thought as he now felt he successfully turned my no's into yes'. So I was honest and said, ok it sounds more interesting but I would like to work in a different sector. He then petulantly responded "well that's just not going to work and you won't have any luck".

What a knob! I told him initially I was not interested and then when I tell him I was he goes and says it won't happen! I'm better off doing this on my own.

So, today I wrote to a company I really want to work for - actually I think it's about the 5th time I have written to them. They already said no about 2 months ago, but being perpetually bored, I am writing to the person senior to the last one today. Writing to this company for a job has almost become a past time of mine, so much so, I may even add it to my CV under "interests" next time round!