Yup! Who would have thought that another couple years would make me ineligible for any kind of employment!
I retired after 30 years as a Real Estate Agent selling Commercial and Residential Real Estate, fighting to preserve and save my clients money and dignity, in the space of 8 years, I suddenly became unemployable for ANYTHING.
There are resumes and applications in almost every business in the valley from me I have same number of “Kiss-off” letters from employers. Well not really from employers, but from nameless personnel companies or personnel telemarketers.
Now I understand that the personnel agencies are going to employ AI to do their interviewing, PERFECT!
I don’t understand why I have not had ONE decent interview from ONE company that REALLY has a position for a reasonably intelligent female for a Sales Position. I have had several “Cattle Call Interviews” but not with a real employer.
Just to re-iterate: I do not want an outside sales position! I feel that with my sales experience, I am worth a decent salary with a commission to match my abilities.
Just for your information: every sales job that I have successfully accomplished top salesperson was ones that I had NO experience with that PRODUCT or business “On the job.” Of course management tried to hide that a mere female could be the top salesperson.
One local company wanted me to “train” their salespeople and let the “trainer” take all the credit for it.
For all of you business’ that disqualified me because I am not young enough, since when does youth qualify over experience? Did you think that my 30 plus years as a licensed Realtor made me unqualified to anything but telemarketing or outside sales???
Just in case you still think I got stupid, I have written and self-published eight books. I will admit they may never be million sellers, but my blood, sweat and tears are between the covers. They are all on Amazon.com, just type my name, Brenda Colbath in the search area and they will pop up.
I don’t know what the future holds for me, but I am deleting all the “Help wanted” ads from all the fake personnel agencies and fading into the woodwork.
Thanks for noting!
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Creating worlds, characters, and wielding power like a madwoman, making my characters happy, sad, angry, and some of them with no redeeming qualities. I probably shouldn’t admit this, but I sometimes laugh out loud when I am writing a scene, and I have been known to cry when one of my favorites has to die.
I am a left-handed Gemini, what do you expect?
Reading bedtime stories to my two children until they fell asleep or until they just told me to go away, was fun. Making up wild stories for my grandchild, and creating Halloween costumes from Cowboys to a Dragon, was another favorite thing to do. I missed that so much when they were grown, that I started writing.
My yearly newsletters frequently were drafted third-person by my Love Birds, Miranda our motorhome, and by Sir Fit the White Knight, our faithful Honda.
Throughout the years, some of my creative talents centered around writing letters of complaint expressing my displeasure with services or products. One crucial, at least to my Son, was a note to our local school bus driver petitioning her to allow him back on the bus. He was kicked off for making an obscene gesture at his buddy. I reminded her that it was not directed at her, and that “obscenity can be in the eye of the beholder,” kids use that gesture as a greeting. He rode the bus until he graduated.
I loved driving my English teacher crazy. Leaving a “continued next week” at the end of my five handwritten pages required each week. He was one of many people that suggested I “do something about my writing.”
I graduated from the School of Hard Knocks at the top of my class.
After 30 years, in the trenches as a Real Estate Professional, I have found that truth is stranger than fiction. My books are filled with characters I met in that profession. Their names were changed to protect the guilty. Others were from people we met traveling around the country in Miranda, our Motorhome.
I am married nearly 60 years to the love of my life, Shirl, and partner-produced two exceptionally talented children, and one grandchild who is our pride and joy.
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