When I was young, I wanted to grow up and be a cowgirl, a teacher, a judge. I never thought much about selling stuff to people, I was never really interested in it.
In middle school and high school I focused on legal studies, the law, philosophy. I wanted to be a lawyer.
In college I found the earth and decided I wanted to be a cultivator of health and happiness... (seriously what sounds better than that..in my opinion?) I wanted to be a farmer.
Well my life has taken some dips and turns, and I've ended up in the Greenbuilding Industry. The thing is, I'm not on the consulting side, or enforcement or policy side, I'm in sales. I'm also in research and development. and Marketing. And HR. Really not what I thought I'd be doing, but I am in love with my company and the things we do. I sell high end compost toilet systems and urine diverting toilets. Yeah stick that in your sewer pipe and flush it. I am glad that everyday I help the world become a better place, even if that place is literally the shitter.
But what I do hate is the cold calling. ah, its so cold! Its such a strange thing in my opnion, cold calling. Just tryin to sell ya something here! I always thing that people don't want it. And mostly they don't. Personally I am a incredibly stingy individual that rarely buys anything (and thankfully my parents cover the rest right now). But I forget that people can be interested. Its just hard to come at them at the sales point of view. If I was a consultant, they'd kiss my feet and invite me over when the house is finished for a glass of champagne.
Its hard because I really do believe in my cause, I know what I am doing its right, but it gets discouraging with the lack of people who care about fighting officials to make it change. I just want to help people make people aware. What I sell is a good, well designed, smartly and green designed product, and thats awesome. Sometimes I just loose faith in peoples interest...
