Three days ago, the prologue to my soon to be best seller book spilled out while I was having my lunch/dinner break at Wendy's.
It is exciting to see that it has begun as I continue to do my research for this book. It will be an amazing book that somebody will someday want to turn it into a movie...after what was done with Twilight, I might not allow it.
Other than that, I am exhausted. I worked nine hours today and completed 7 interviews for Columbia. The stress and pressure is really being put on us now...we each have to complete 4-5 interviews per day and they are asking us to work Saturday AND Sunday...problem is, I haven't gotten a day off since December 1st.
I am so stressed that I cried after finishing an interview...the lady that called in to have me interview her was really mean to me...not just rude like most New Yorkers are but downright mean.
She asked me to speak clearer and slower so she could understand me, which I did. After a minute or two, she made the comment that she graduated from Harvard and that even though I may be using big and intellegent words, she couldn't understand me and that I should transfer her to someone who speaks native English or just do the interview in Spanish.
Do I have that thick of an accent? Because I know I have some form of an accent and have a problem with my diction, I tend to speak slower when I am interviewing people at work. Most people understand me but this lady made me feel so crappy about my accent.
The only reason I stuck out the interview to the end is because I wanted the interview so I could meet my daily quota. Today, I surpassed it by two. And I pray that I surpass it every day by one or two interviews.
Why? Because if we don't meet our goal of 300 interviews by December 31st, the client will roll over our account to the other vendor, which seem to be way ahead of us (I also wonder when they went live...we didn't go live until, what, November 14th?) and that makes me nervous and slightly worried that I may lose my job.
Which is a problem because I am paying school loans and just signed a 6month renewal on my lease. Maybe I should just do a three month renewal? I am going to talk to Monica about that since I haven't given back the signed lease yet...see if we could change the lease to March instead of May.
Well, enough of that. I am watching the Jay Lenno show (which I actually find humorous) and waiting for the Drano stuff to make it through the drain.
Oh yeah, I bought myself a brown winter coat...and A&M printed fleece to make a double sided blanket since today was such a crappy day for me...at least I didn't buy chocolate for me.
3 comments:
Read your November 11 entry. How have things been going in regard to all of this in the last week?
okay, so my last post sounds like i am telling you i read it, which i did, but i meant to say, "Luz, go read your November 11 entry."
Thank you for advising me to re-read my Nov. 11th entry.
Things are much better...I renewed my lease for another three months and I am still working at EMSI.
Our goal has been moved down to 200 and we are 65 interviews away from reaching that goal.
I am enjoying the interviews and keeping track of everything (and I mean everything) mostly because I am so crazy nerdy organized.
I am still praying for a call...that's what I want to do. Get back into ministry. I miss it like crazy. It's what I was made for and what I love to do.
One thing, though, I've decided I want to get training to counsel breast and ovarian cancer survivers. The women and men I interview have been a great inspiration to me.
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