During the long two months holidays, I decided to go out to work, to experience the outside world and to make full use of the time, rather than staying at home, being a couch potato or lazing around at home and letting my parents spoon feed me. I have a pair of hands and legs, and I think that I am already mature enough to think and I should help to lighten their load instead of adding on to their load.
It is easier said than done, I wanted a job and there are other teenagers like me wanting to work as a part timer too. It is not so easy to get one. For the first two weeks of the holiday, my friends and I were looking high and low in the newspapers almost everyday for a job. But, we are too young, most of them wanted people above 16, but we continued trying.
At last, we found one. It is to work as a part time event promoter from 2 to 7 pm everyday and only off on Monday. Our job is to walk up and down Orchard Road to look for married couples and to promote the holiday promotional package to them. Once a married couple signed up for it, we will get fifty dollars commission.
We started with a two weeks trial. Within two weeks, we have to get at least 3 couples to sign up for the package before we get hundred and fifty dollars commission and six dollars per hour starting from the first day. The pay is good but it is not as easy as it seems.
And the worst part is, we have to “cheat” the couple and gain their sympathy. We have to tell them things that are not true. I have to respect the company so I cannot say how we “cheat’ them. After one day, we quit. It is conscience against money. We can always earn back the money but we cannot betray our conscience or we will be guilty for the rest of my life.
11:26 PM
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