Gig reading:

Adhesive Company Sales Representative

After flipping to a random page in Gig and reading a few interviews I was surprised how much I like this interview. To me being an adhesive sales representative sounded like one of the most boring jobs on the planet, but this interview really made me rethink that. Traci seemed so happy with her job… something I think not enough people are. I never realized how much time sales representatives have to spend building good relations with their customers. Playing underwater hockey doesn’t sound like anything I’d ever expect a sales rep to do. The other thing that really surprised me was just how many different things contain adhesive. When I read the title I was thinking that she sold adhesive squares or something, but it turned out that she supplied glues to tons of different companies.

I was also interested by the fact that she was one of the few women in her line of work. I guess it kind of makes sense that it is a male dominated job seeing as talking your clients drinking is part of the job, and its not as socially acceptable for women to drink. However the part about her boss giving her an incredibly hard time when she first started and making her get up extra early kind of disgusted me. It know that sort of discrimination happens in the work place, but it still really bothered me that she had to put up with it… and became friends with the guy afterwards.