Tuesday 27th March (Day 26)
I was walking
back from my exit interview thinking about working as an engineer again when I
was approached by a fundraiser. She used
a very interesting opening line to get my attention. She said something like “ah, there you are, I
have been waiting all day to talk to you”.
It was a little confusing but very flattering, I was like “what?” but
when I said this I had a big smile on my face.
After we started talking I quickly explained that I had just quit my job
as a fundraiser. She said that it was
there loss and I should come work for the company she works for. She had a lot of faith in me considering I
had just walked away from my last job less than an hour ago.
It got me
thinking though; had I left fundraising too early? Whilst this thought was on my mind I got
approached by a second fundraiser. She
was just a little shorter than me; she had these big brown eyes that matched
her brown hair and the brown tee shirt she was wearing. Her eyes might have got my attention but it
was the way she was talking to me that captivated me. She was talking to me like we were best
friends. It wasn’t long before she was writing
down my details so I would be contacted by the office and invited to an
interview.
That’s right,
I want to go back to fundraising, engineering can wait a bit longer. It is because of the people who do fundraising,
I have become fascinated by them. How
can someone be so happy and energetic throughout the day? When the brown eyed girl spoke to me it was
getting past 4 o’clock; it was near the end of her working day but she was
still fresh as a daisy and full of energy. It is like each of them inside have
a never ending fountain of happiness and charisma.
I want to
know their secret; I want to know what makes them tick. Is there some kind of secret fundraising drug
they snort 3 times a day to keep them going?
Did an ordinary person receive a heavy blow to the head whilst thinking a
happy thought and thus became a street fundraiser?
It is a shame
that most people walk past fundraisers and pretend they don’t exist when really
they just missed the opportunity to talk to probably the most interesting and
charismatic person they will speak to all week.
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| What makes them smile all the time? |
I want to
spend more time with these people and I want to get good at fundraising. Another reason for giving my details was
because I liked the vibe with these people.
The atmosphere was good and they seemed happy with their job. I had thought that fundraising wasn’t for me
but maybe it was just the company I was working for wasn’t very good? I can’t help but think that judging by the positive
vibe with these fundraisers that things would be better with this company. I am going to give street fundraising another
go. My first attempt was just a
practice, an introduction. This is the
real thing!
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| I still want to do this, but not yet. |
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| This is what I want to do for now, and I want to be a beast at it! |
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I'm sure you will be a beast mikel and if it really does make you happy then you should stick to it - but it's good that you're being practical as you do need money to survive and I myself don't know any rich fundraisers (well unless they're directors or something) - you've kept your options open and that's good, but at the same time you should work because you want to in that job and not because you've been persuaded by brown-eyed girls, I mean who knows maybe there's some brown-eyed engineers that might be equally as energetic and amicable? x
ReplyDeleteThere aren't many girls in Engineering. But I know what you mean, and don't worry. I am not giving fund raising another go just because some fit girl told me to.
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