You want some cheap electricity?

Ah sorry I'm a blogger failure lately! But fear not, I am back in action!



So official with my badge.



A couple of weeks ago I arrived in a town called Surfers Paradise. This is pretty much a big city with a beach attached to it. Lots of people compare it to Miami but in my opinion Miami is way more crazy. We lounged around for a few days before we found a job listing on Gumtree (Australia's version of Craigslist) being a sales rep for a company called TRUenergy. We showed up for an "interview" but it pretty much consisted of, "Tell us where you're from and what kind of sales experience do you have?" then we went through 2 days of training, were thrown an iPad and dropped off on a street with a trainer to try and start making sales. Essentially, I have to go door to door and ask people about their electricity then convince them to sign on with TRU because we have better rates and discounts than everyone else. It's slightly sketchy. After about the second day in I was ready to quit but they were having an awards party on Saturday where $1000 worth of free booze was going to be supplied to us, so I figured I'd stick it out until then so I could be in on this party!

The party was legit! After the tab ran out we were invited to an after-party at one of my co-worker's houses, so about 15 of us stumbled walked over to his apartment and piled into the elevator. At this point we decided to disregard the 8 person capacity limit-this was a very big mistake! As soon as the door closed the elevator sank to the bottom floor where we remained trapped for the next hour. Please just try to put yourself in this situation. 15 hammered people pressed up against each other like sardines for an hour in a hot elevator... Everyone was dripping sweat, a few girls were freaking out, but no worries, I kept my cool.

After we were rescued me and my friends ran to the beach and jumped in the ocean. Freedom never felt so good!

Monster spider I
encountered on my route!

I still am not the biggest fan of the job, but for some reason I keep showing up everyday. It's getting better and I've made about 10 sales so far but it is really boring walking around all day in the heat having the same conversation with people about their electricity. Oh well, we will see what happens!

All in all I'm still having a great time. After work the place where I'm living usually has a BBQ or something fun going on so that keeps us entertained. Anyway, I'll continue to keep everyone up-to-date with what's going on down here!

Cheers