Reply To This Post
Interspersed among various bouts of unemployment, the time I took to earn a Bachelor's degree and one terrible third shift job in a factory that, it turns out, did not inspire me to write a great American blue collar rock album, I've spent most of my professional life working in telemarketing.
The work is easy, it's usually easy to find, and more importantly, I'm pretty well suited to it. I have a pleasant enough voice, but mostly, I've persevered in the field because I take rejection very well.
It's a strength that should translate pretty well to my social life, but it's never actually proven that useful. In theory, I'd be more than capable of asking a girl out and walking away from a no with my head held high, but I've never actually figured out when a person asks another on a date. Part of the problem seems to be that I have to know a lot about a person before I know whether I want to go on a date to begin with. And a lot of the things I want to know aren't things you can ask without implicitly expressing interest in a date. I guess that's why I've opted for the internet.
And, as it turns out, the internet is a contraption that can deliver rejection with a new and ruthless efficiency. My recent Craigslist postings have already prompted any number of responses whose authors disappeared after one or two brief e-mail conversations, or perhaps after searching Facebook for my e-mail address. Just the same, I'm trying to keep getting up off the mat. It's a trait I find especially admirable in others. The only really unappealing e-mails I've gotten in response to my ads are the ones that are prefaced with "you probably aren't interested, but..."
I've always found the trite conventional wisdom that confidence is attractive sort of annoying, and a little condescending when it comes from attractive people, but I guess wisdom becomes conventional for a reason in a lot of cases. It's also possible that I just appreciate good taste and assume anyone who doesn't think they're awesome is either actually not awesome, or lacks the ability to recognize awesome.
My point is, if you're awesome, you should write me an e-mail. I haven't responded to every e-mail I've gotten, and only some of that is because I've been busy, but if the worst thing that happens to you this week is a rejection from a 29-year-old guy writing personal ads on the internet, your life could be a lot worse.
I'm Dan. I'm probably free this Friday.
- Location: Suburban Minneapolis
- it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
 | |
No comments:
Post a Comment