Wednesday 18th April (Day 48)
The team
So, today is
the day where I sink or swim. I had to
do well today and get some signups or I was going to be fundraising no
more. I was hoping for a good team to
work with today and I got one. I was working
with Eric and Will; the 2 fundraisers who I have learnt the most from. Surely the Gods have conspired to make this
happen. I couldn’t have picked a better
team for me to work with.
The setting
However we
were working in a place called Rockdale.
I didn’t really like the sound of this place. I got images of some shady little town with
sand and tumbleweeds. I really wanted to
work in the city instead.
I got the
train to Rockdale that morning. It was
pretty far out of the city and it wasn’t too different from how I imagined
it. The driving rain that made my day
yesterday so miserable was back again.
So the team was great but the setting for my sink or swim day was bad
and I didn’t get off to a good start either.
The pressure of knowing this was probably going to be my final day was
really sapping my energy.
That morning
The morning
passed fairly quickly and I was doing alright.
Despite the problems I wasn’t going to let this job go without a
fight. I stopped one guy who said he was
going to and from a tattoo shop just down the road whilst getting a large
tattoo done on his leg. I suggested that
he should join our charity today because whenever he looks at his tattoo it
will remind him that he is helping save children’s lives.
Some old guy
I tried to stop turned around and said by saving children’s lives we were
adding to the problems in Africa with reference to over population. This is bollocks because over population is
caused by poverty, not the other way round.
The reasons being:
- Health care and family planning facilities unavailable to most families
- Families need lots of children to work to scrap enough money together for the family to live off
- The fact that most of your children are going to die, so naturally you are going to have more to increase the chances of some making it to adulthood
- And the fact that as a parent you will probably at this point be critically ill and need children to look after you
And the
charity I was representing is focused not just on saving people’s lives but to
break the poverty cycle. I tried to stop
this guy to have a discussion with him about how he was wrong but he didn’t
want to. He just wanted to have his say
and to walk away, what an ignorant twit.
Anyway, rant over.
The evening
After lunch I
was still trying hard, approaching most of the people who were walking towards
me but it was just no good. The thing is
you have to stay positive in this job, if you are not emitting positive energy
nobody stops to talk to you. I just felt
like I was staring down the barrel of the gun of being fired. It was coming and there wasn’t anything I
could do about it.
At some
points in the afternoon I just felt like “oh, what’s the point”. Well the point was I really liked this job, I
really liked the charity I was representing, I really liked the company and I
really liked the people I worked with. I
really wanted to hang on and stay with this job but I just couldn’t make that
illusive signup.
By 6 o’clock
it was getting dark and it was all over.
I think Will made one signup that morning but that was it. Wonder boy Eric hadn’t made a signup in the 2
days I have worked with him. It seemed a
bit unfair that he was now going to fire me for not getting any signups whilst
he was on zero as well. But I suppose he
has already proved himself.
I was pretty
gutted handing in my tee-shirt and folder.
I wanted to stay in this job but I couldn’t, not without any
signups. It’s over, damn.
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