Work and life in USA
It’s been so long since this weblog’s been updated that I don’t even know how to start. Whenever I write something here I promise to write regularly and now even my Persian weblog is so rarely updated! Leaving in the USA for a year and few months has been an interesting experience. I worked as a designer/salesperson for a company that organizes people’s closets, offices, garages, sitting rooms and well wherever needs to be organized! I graduated masters in pedagogy and linguistics and have never ever done any kind of designing in my life let alone drawing on grid sheets and telling people where to put their stuff!!
All this and being new in a country with people of a different culture is bound to overwhelm you, right?! Well hopefully it didn’t! We had an intensive training and after a while designing became the easiest part of it! The most difficult part was behaving so persuasive all through the designing so that the client would buy the design. Since I’m not a pushy person this always proved to be tough to do. People mostly need to be pushed! The products and installations are of the upper end and cost more than what a regular lad would want to pay to be organized! Normally they would think to themselves why I would want to pay $3000 to have a young girl tell me where I should put my undergarments!!! And so they would come to the conclusion that going to the Home Depot and getting the lower end stuff and doing it for half the price is more logical.
Who am I to argue?!!
Anyways it is a commission-based job with no security at all! Sometimes I would be so successful and sometimes left without a dime! So now a full-time job is making me feel more at home! Working 8 to 5 and running around in the office and warehouse keeps me on my toes and pays consistently and more!
Well anyways it’s all good now, having full coverage insurance, a salary that can be more but not less! All in all the first job was “a first job” and I was lucky I didn’t have to wash dishes or work in retail stores at first (not that there’s anything wrong in doing so if you have to). It was prestigious work and now I’m so familiar with American culture and have been to at least 200 houses and dealt with a diversity that would not have been possible in any other job. I’m hoping to grow in this new job of customer service and order processing and now we just have to wait and see what happens.
