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Three years ago I answered phones in a boiler room now I actually get to think
I used to work at this call center in Tulsa where we had to follow a script word for word and our breaks were timed. Got fired in 2021 for taking one extra minute too many. Now I do data entry for a small insurance company where I can listen to music and nobody watches the clock. It's not fancy but I'm not dreading Monday anymore you know? Anyone else make a sideways move that actually turned out better?
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the_pat15d ago
That sideways move is really the way to go sometimes. The whole "climbing the ladder" thing is overrated when you end up more stressed than before. I left a sales gig that had me cold calling 200 people a day for a warehouse inventory job where I just scan stuff and listen to podcasts. Pay's a little less but my blood pressure dropped like crazy. People get too caught up in titles and forget that not dreading your alarm clock is worth something. Plus those call center jobs train you to hate people, hard to put a price on getting that back.
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