I woke up and I felt terrible. I did not want to work today. This job just didn’t feel right anymore.
We got to Lincoln and sorted ourselves out. My usual enthusiasm was absent. Interestingly, I thought that maybe my sincerity would get people to listen. I wasn’t interested in wasting time on people who would waste mine. I stopped and pleaded to anyone who looked like they cared…”30 seconds for charity?”. I felt as if my eyes where sending out help me bullets. Lincoln is a great place and the people were well educated. I approached people for an hour and then i had had enough. I just wanted to go home.
I talked to my friends back in Leeds. They all wanted to see me. Enough was enough. Time to tell the team leader.
For the rest of the day I waltzed around Lincoln, enjoying the sights and the smells. Everything felt like a dream. I was going home. The pressure was gone and I was anew, basking in the glory of my transformation.
1 signup. Today was velentines day. I started the day well prepared. Hull seemed like a nice enough place, but there was a horrible stench in the air. Our team joked about the “hull smell”.
Around 5pm I approached a guy and ran my routine. Turns out I had been mystery shopped. He was the field ops manager, and had been at the job for 4 years. I took his advice with great sincerity. He told me that I didn’t seem to fully comes accross as somebody that believed in what they where talking about. I told him that I found it difficult as i have not seen what its really like to be homeless. He told me that everything I needed was in the training booklet. I couldn’t help but stare at his eyes. When he talked there was a real sense of depth to them, its rare that I see that in anybody. I told him about the fact that I didn’t like the idea of having to manipulate people into giving money away. He became incredibly defensive when I said this, using the words “well good luck to you mate.”. He then explained to me how actually everybody could easily afford what we were asking, and I agreed with what he was saying. I let him know that I had a few conflicts going on in my mind.
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