Ever since I was born, I have never taken any job. Therefore, I have ZERO working experience. Last few week, one of my classmates, Chin Hong said that he needed someone to replace him for his part time job on last weekend. I was thinking that this could be a good chance for me to gain some working experience. So I said, “hey, why not give me a try?”

That classmate of mine was more than willingly to pass his job to me. After few weeks until last Saturday, I went to the working avenue to start my very first part time job. The place was at Jusco and it is pretty near to where I am staying now. As I was new to there, I reached there quite early to ensure that I would not be late.

My job was to promote Kellogg’s products. After registering at the staff counter, my very first task was to find all my tools and samples. I kept searching for my booth and samples for quite some time. I was under a hot sun and at a very unhygienic place. After searching for about half an hour, I started to get anxious as I was supposed to start promoting at that time. So I had to approach people to ask for help. Fortunately, the staff there were very helpful and they really helped me a lot. Eventually, I found my booth and samples.

Nevertheless, I still had problem with setting up my booth. So I called my supervisor to ask for help. Anyway I was a new promoter and I had not gone through any training. My supervisor was kind enough to come all the way from Cheras to Wangsa Maju. He helped me to set up my booth and taught me how to talk to the customers and push sales.

Kellogg's sample

So I just started promoting to any customers who bypassed my booth. It was quite a tedious and tiring job. However I did enjoy pitching people about the benefit of purchasing my products. Hopefully this could improve my selling skill. As what great entrepreneurs said, “you need to know how to sell before becoming a business owner.”

In addition, I made some friends there, Kah Heng and Pei Pei. They were both very friendly and easy-going. We had lunch together and we talked a lot of stuff during the recess time. Both of them are older than me one year and they have much more working experience than me. They share a common point which is they love Dota and pool. I seldom play Dota and have never played pool so I could not really discuss with them when they talked about all these things. They understood it as well so they just changed to another conversation topic that suited me.

In conclusion, I realize that it is very hard to earn money from solely working. Sometimes you just cannot get the job satisfaction. What I want is to become an entrepreneur that has absolute freedom and self-actualization. I will treat this two day job as my valuable experience.

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