Get a Life?

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Ok so I’ve just finished school for the summer, good thing, and now I’m really bored. Not to say I don’t have stuff to do, I have a job, GF, Volunteer at church, I read, make new workout plans, lift etc. I just have a crap load of time and nothing to do.

I know I know, some people would love to be in that situation, enjoy it while you can, and I’m so glad that I have the oportunity to have down time.

But I need to have something to do almost all the time and now I have close to nothing to do. What should I do with all this free time, it’s driving me nuts!

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Listen to me very carefully: work as much as possible, ideally in a sales job.

Car salesman, at a cell phone booth in the mall, door-to-door Omaha steaks (I’m not kidding), whatever.

The skills you pick up in a sales positions are invaluable. Trust me.

And, you have a good chance at making better money than say, a day camp.

You’ll appreciate the money when it comes time for Spring Break or when your car breaks down, or when you want to splurge on a new mountain bike or PC or whatever.

You WILL regret doing “nothing” most of the summer. Trust me. Humans are meant to work and be productive.

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How about a hobby?

Music…learn an instrument.
Language, learn a new one.
Cars, learn to build one.

Tons and tons of hobbies out there, pick one.

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I’m not really understanding how you have so much free time if you have a job (p/t or f/t?), gf, volunteer, work out, read, etc. But, if you’re really looking for something to do when you’re not doing all those other things you said you do, spend time with your friends, bc when school is over for good, you will all eventually go in different directions and you won’t see them so much. Take advantage of your free time and hang out with your buds.

DB

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Sales offers no f*in skills - other than teaching you social skills.

But you should have those anyway, right?

A true skill is the ability to repair a car, design a device, play an instrument, solve a complex mathematical problem, build a motorcycle, paint a beautiful piece of art.

Knowing how to be courteous and pleasant in order to get their cash?

Sure, I’ll float with it. It’s an invaluable skill (when Mars impacts Earth).

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PS2.

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[quote]diesel25 wrote:
Sales offers no f*in skills - other than teaching you social skills.

But you should have those anyway, right?

A true skill is the ability to repair a car, design a device, play an instrument, solve a complex mathematical problem, build a motorcycle, paint a beautiful piece of art.

Knowing how to be courteous and pleasant in order to get their cash?

Sure, I’ll float with it. It’s an invaluable skill (when Mars impacts Earth).[/quote]

I respectfully have to disagree. Sales skills are invaluable anywhere there’s people. Getting the girl, leasing your condo, getting a better job, receiving little extras without asking, obtaining twice the results with half the effort, etc.

It’s all sales. And I should add selling yourself. Regardless of your abilities, if you can’t sell yourself, you’re fucked. Or left in the dust.

Life is sales. Sales are life.

No, I’m not preaching. Imagine the opposite. Try to go through life without sales skills. Smooth talkers will leave competition in the dust. Or picking up the pieces.

Even worse is when you realize one of your coworkers, less technically competent than you in Skill X, but a better salesman, gets promoted.

All that because one knows how to talk to people, in their language, gets thru, cuts through the crap undecided people shell him back, knows how to qualify prospects, gets across as confident because he can handle objections without problems, etc.

I’ll tell you what. I’d change my total of 2 bachelor’s degrees consisting of halfs or thirds of degrees for sales skills anytime.

“One has to be good with people. That’s all we got here.” Lee Iacocca. Wise words.