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<blockquote data-quote="Homicidal_Squirrel" data-source="post: 6231985" data-attributes="member: 6750031"><p>Can I ask you something? Do you drink because of work? Seriously, not trying to sound like a jerk. I ask because when I was younger I had applied for a job with Kaplan University. The job title was "Educational Counselor." The actual job was being a telemarketer trying to sell the school to new students and enroll them in classes. </p><p></p><p>The first month of employment was just training, so it wasn't too bad. The second month was being on the phone. I seriously hated that job. I had to call people that had been called way too many times for several months. </p><p></p><p>A lot of the time people didn't even realize they had given their information and that we would be calling them. They would fill out those "free gift" things on some site, and for the next year they would be getting calls from several online schools.</p><p></p><p>The worst part was that the people running the hell they called a call center were always on your case to enroll someone. I had a friend who hated it as much as I did, and the two of us would go out to lunch together. He would get high, and I would drink just to be able to make back to work without killing everyone in there. </p><p></p><p>I was quickly developing a drinking habit just to be able to work there. I didn't even make it to the end of my second month of employment with them. I just called up one morning and told them that I quit. They had an interesting pay system. They paid, at least back then, $34K base salary. If you sold (enrolled) a certain number of students on forking over their money or taking out financial aid (which required loans to pay for the classes), you could make more. You could make close to $100K if you were really good at suckering people into debt. </p><p></p><p>I felt like a terrible person trying to get people to get into so much debt for a pretty useless degree. I think it cost about $20K for an A.A. I honestly felt like a terrible person, so I drank... a lot... like a lot... during my lunch hour, just to be able to go back to work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Homicidal_Squirrel, post: 6231985, member: 6750031"] Can I ask you something? Do you drink because of work? Seriously, not trying to sound like a jerk. I ask because when I was younger I had applied for a job with Kaplan University. The job title was "Educational Counselor." The actual job was being a telemarketer trying to sell the school to new students and enroll them in classes. The first month of employment was just training, so it wasn't too bad. The second month was being on the phone. I seriously hated that job. I had to call people that had been called way too many times for several months. A lot of the time people didn't even realize they had given their information and that we would be calling them. They would fill out those "free gift" things on some site, and for the next year they would be getting calls from several online schools. The worst part was that the people running the hell they called a call center were always on your case to enroll someone. I had a friend who hated it as much as I did, and the two of us would go out to lunch together. He would get high, and I would drink just to be able to make back to work without killing everyone in there. I was quickly developing a drinking habit just to be able to work there. I didn't even make it to the end of my second month of employment with them. I just called up one morning and told them that I quit. They had an interesting pay system. They paid, at least back then, $34K base salary. If you sold (enrolled) a certain number of students on forking over their money or taking out financial aid (which required loans to pay for the classes), you could make more. You could make close to $100K if you were really good at suckering people into debt. I felt like a terrible person trying to get people to get into so much debt for a pretty useless degree. I think it cost about $20K for an A.A. I honestly felt like a terrible person, so I drank... a lot... like a lot... during my lunch hour, just to be able to go back to work. [/QUOTE]
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