2nd Job

There isn’t any appropriate reasons to not posting this up, so this is it, my first job experience as an ambassador of DiGi campus Roadshow in University Malaya.

Having no experience at all in this particular field, I have everything all planned out in mind of how I’m going to make this thing work out for me while I was waiting anxiously at the gathering spot – Old Town in Jaya 1. It was a fine morning when I comfortably sat myself in a chair at a corner outside of the restaurant. Should I be fortunate or unfortunate to have a smoker sitting right beside my table? Fortunate I may say because he was a pipe smoker and I’ve never seen one in action before.

Clearly, he was of Arabic origin with his rather tanned skin and moustache and beard growing all over his face. I observed every single motion he made, occasionally looking away to avoid being caught looking at him. Apparently, he was a wealthy and successful guy who had worked his ass all the way to the top of a well-known company and now had all his employees attending to his work while he enjoyed his morning Cappuccino and smoke.

Whatever he was smoking really smelt good, but I refrained myself from inhaling any of those pollutants. He handled his pipe meticulously as if he was a neurosurgeon fixing a fragile little human nerve. I couldn’t help but realize that every puff he took from the pipe was going to kill him sooner or later, giving him awful-looking ulcers to his lips and an uncountable number of cancers that could rupture and screw up his anatomy before he die a painful death. Anyway, I learnt the right way to smoke a pipe that morning. Which I probably would not apply to any part of my “quite-healthy” life until the day I die.

The day in UM started off great despite that mere blur-ness in me. Every one was busy opening up boxes, setting up buntings, folding gift boxes, and etc. I, on the other hand, tried to figure out ways to give a helping hand. After all was set, I grabbed hold of a few leaflets and registration forms and set off to the entrance of Kolej Perdana Siswa in a mission to get my first customer. Putting a smile on my face and great spirits in my voice, I started explaining about the cheapest package in town.

I’m not a people person but I wasn’t nervous at all and I did have courage to approach every single person I met. I got stuck often as I explained to enthusiastic students, and I knew some of them noticed it. Hah! My explanation got smoother as the day progressed, but the number of customers I get was not enough to earn me my commission. I was disappointed but it wasn’t entirely my fault because I shifted from KPS to K12, which had a lower traffic and a lower number of enthusiastic students. That night, I made a promise to myself to be more professional the next day and get myself 28 customers before the end of the day.

2nd day. My faith was shattered after a few attempts to persuade students who were devouring their meals to purchase a new package of DiGi campus/try out the new DiGi plan as I approached their tables. Some even scowled at me before I even had the chance to speak. Their attitude peeved me alright and restrained me from further promoting, but the target I had to meet to earn me RM20 motivated me. Evidently, Lady Luck was absent for the first 2 days and it made me envious to watch my friends walking away from tables with filled up forms and IC in their hands. I failed yet again.   

From the 3rd day onwards, things started getting better and more tiring. Traffic swelled and the situation at the counter was chaotic. But we managed to pulled it through with the help of several Yellow Armies, which constituted of students of UM. Finally, on the final day itself, I managed to get top sales, earning me an extra RM20. I was satisfied.

Benefits: - I get to know lots of people, had a chance to officially introduce myself to one of my ex-schoolmates, got to speak Malay/English with Malay accent after years of learning the language, become someone who’s way different from who I really am, and finally learn how to converse fast and persuade people in a short period of time.   

Yay to me.

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