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Old 07-08-2009, 12:40 PM   #23 (permalink)
Baraka_Guru
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Heh, about Vector.... in the days before everything could be found out about people on the Internet, I had driven over 200km for an "interview/orientation" day for "Vector Marketing." It was for a "career in promotions," or whatever.

I had just graduated from a 3-year college marketing program, and was eager to start a career. I went to them, followed a bunch of college kids around a suburb while they tried to get people to agree to a free home security system to help promote them to the neighbourhood.

At this point, I was thinking, "You've got to be fucking kidding me.... "

After that I took some stupid test, after which they told me how awesome I was and that I had a lot of potential to be very successful.

On the drive home, I kept thinking to myself, "What a fucking joke.... "
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