4 days, 44 hours, 38 laptops and netbooks.

i thought i would never lived to see the week come to an end. ( another one of those days. yes)

finally finished working at the IT fair for 4 days. and i could swear that it was the longest longest longest 4 days of my life. honestly it didn't seem like 4 days at all. more like a week actually.

when i thought back on the earlier part of the week, it had seemed so far away that i had a partially hard time trying to accept that barely a week had past.

toughest toughest toughest job i've ever had. i almost gave up on the first day of work. it wasn't until i had close my first sale did i persuade myself to push on and pull through it.

standing from 11-10 daily is no easy feat. trying to raise your voice with each customer because the surrounding is just to noisy ain't no easy feat either.

you thought on the second day where you manage to get a breakthrough, luck will last with you. but it's never the case.

but still it was a very enriching experience no doubt. i believe that in order to grow and learn something out of everything, you have to experience different things. different environment, different people. no matter how bad the experience is, you'll get something out of it.

you pull through certain things, you come out stronger.

LOL. 4 days of work and i sound like i been through HELL. i would THINK twice if i'm ever ask to work at the IT fair again. you peeps can give it a try. it really ain't as easy as you think. and as money churning as you think.

selling 5 netbooks only giving you a meagre 10 bucks makes you disappointed but at the same time it makes you wanna aim higher and better.

seeing customers coming back the second round, looking JUST for you makes its so much worth the effort. but with 5 times the effort place in, only 1 customer will come back for you.

leaving my number and name with so many customer, i only had like 1/10 of them coming back to look for me. and it makes you feel like a fool sometimes.

there are so many different types of customers you get to interact out there and there really are some that makes you wanna swear at them so much. you have to control.

some that really make you a bloody fool, going back and forth from the cashier to them and back to the cashier and then to them again just to ask for a best offer for them and they end up telling you that they don't want it. or that they'll come back again ( and you jolly well know that it wouldn't happen). makes you so mad that you really wanna throw in the towel.

OR LIKE A PARTICULAR RACE. they are just so frikin hard to serve. although you know that they'll sometimes end up buying. but just one such case will already drain you real badly. entertaining them for 30 frikin minutes when in normal cases you could have already serve 2-3 customers.

it's just really draining at the end of the day.

i was a witness to such a case. the last day, last few minutes, last customer. he bloody didnt want to give up asking more more freebies and better price when its already the best price. 4 days of IT show and we can ALL swear that nobody else got the best offer other than him. it took like half of ALL the promoters to persuade him to buy it, and i'm not even exaggerating. 6-7 of us trying to get him to take it or leave it. one "AWESOME" fella. i almost wanted to kick him.

so its like a true account of how it's like working at sucha fair. nothing is as easy as you think peeps (: and i advice you to think twice.

i guess this would be most likely the first and the last time i would be working at the IT fair. no doubt. and for all 14 promoters i can bet that it would also be the last time for at least 1/2 of them. HA.

so enough ranting.

& and i think this would be an interesting post to look back on the next time.

till then.

peace out earthlings! (:

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