Goodbye, My Odd Job

Bang, bang, I knocked at another door and it didn’t resist. Thank goodness, it was a young Asian girl, not a ferocious German shepherd dog, who greeted the “education survey specialist”. She seemed to be a middle school student, around 15 years old. “It is very easy to deal with a youngster!” I was almost assured of success! Then I proposed the encyclopedia for self-studies.

This collection covered the whole middle school education programme and was ingeniously composed of summaries of each lesson, examples and exercises with answers. It was well adapted to the needs of middle school students for self-study Replica Watches after class. The young girl leafed through it and seemed attracted. She was waiting impatiently for her father, the decision maker.

A man aged about 40 finally showed up. “Dad, this encyclopedia is wonderful!” she said, full of joy. I quickly pitched the miraculous benefits of the collection to the decision maker. But when I quoted the price, he knitted his brows, his face lengthened and darkened, his eyes betrayed his embarrassment and powerlessness; he finally shook his head. The girl burst into tears, but her father gritted his teeth without a further word. 8,000 FF was a huge sum for a modest family. Maybe her father earned even less than this per month, which might be beyond the girl’s imagination. The girl didn’t stop crying but the father remained taciturn. Both refused to budge.

With my aggressive pitch, I had saddened the innocent girl and embarrassed the poor father and hence stirred up bad feeling between a daughter and a father, f fell so ashamed that I stole away guiltily.

The dog’s attack, Mr Zhang’ s request for help, the current stalemate between the daughter and the father, as well as the shabby marketing method, all these shook my morale. I decided to say goodbye to the publishing house. Frankly speaking, this door-to-door sales work, just like the previous one on the beach, was again a so-called “cushy job” that a Cartier Replica French company planned on purpose for hard up students, who naught end up by wasting their time, energy and even money or nothing! However, thanks to my tireless feet and mouth, I had succeeded in seeing a doze: collections. A rough calculation made me excited; f would earn more than 10,000 FF in only one month!