I think there are definitely different types of people. The last guy wanted to get information so he could make money and avoid accidents. Someone in control of their future.
Much more common are people who act as if their future is something that happens to them. Something that cannot be avoided. It may be that people who end up in phone sales are the type of people who do not take control of their future.
Some typical responses are like:
I would like to know where I will be. Will I be married? Will I have kids?
Another person:
What will my career be? What kind of job will I have?
And another:
Will I be successful? Will I make some good money?
To me, these seem like things that a person has some control over. I will grant that these are probably young people who are in the phone slug job just to get by. But still, they sound like people who are just waiting for something to happen to them.
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I turned the annoying phone spam callers into a source of information. Here are the results of my phone survey questions...
What's the story?
I used to get annoyed by interruptions from random phone callers trying to scam me out of my money. I have my home phone and business phone ring at my desk so I get many of these calls.
I do not like to ignore the phone and I do not have the time to check the caller id before I answer.
One day I had a question on my mind when the phone rang so I asked the caller. It then dawned on me that I could take advantage of the situation and use the callers as subjects for surveys.
I started asking various questions - whatever popped into my head at the time - and writing the answers on a pad next to the phone. Later I began to focus on a few questions.
The answers have been accumulating on my desk and on scraps of paper next to my home phones.
Finally I have decided to organize it some by posting it all here.
I do not like to ignore the phone and I do not have the time to check the caller id before I answer.
One day I had a question on my mind when the phone rang so I asked the caller. It then dawned on me that I could take advantage of the situation and use the callers as subjects for surveys.
I started asking various questions - whatever popped into my head at the time - and writing the answers on a pad next to the phone. Later I began to focus on a few questions.
The answers have been accumulating on my desk and on scraps of paper next to my home phones.
Finally I have decided to organize it some by posting it all here.
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