will work for food
well... not quite, but my employment situation is getting rather dire. As with all things in life its not what you know but rather who you know so I am spreading my net wide. I am after basically anything to pay the rent. Im good at biz, negotiating, sales, cust service etc, pretty good on tech and willing to start yesterday - if anyone has any good ideas please let me know.
Edited to add: I worked for EF for 5 years ('99-'03) and could write a recommendation if you think you're interested.
if they get back to me i will drop your name all over the shop
The most important thing for me was that the proportion of sarcastic kids who "get it" is much higher there than any other corporate place I've worked/interviewed/poked around. Then again, I'm not a techie, so I don't qualify for the motherlode of sarcastic colleagues that is IT.
Maybe I misunderstood, but I had the feeling CTP just needed something 'til May. For a 6-month job you could do a hell of a lot worse.
Anyway, I liked it a lot. Fun colleagues, drinkies after work almost every day, flirtation a-go-go... But yeah, there is a type. I can understand some people finding it irksome.
As for sales & customer service - those jobs are pretty much the same wherever you go, unfortunately. I preferred customer service to sales, personally. I'm a youngest sibling, so apologising for something that I don't think is my fault and getting yelled at anyway feels pretty normal to me. And besides that, there are the warm fuzzies you get when you solve a problem so one else wanted to deal with and the customer thinks you're God. Sales required too much blagging for my taste, and the karma wasn't as good.