5. Telemarketing - Anyone who has worked in customer service knows it sucks. In fact, working in a call center sucks period. It's bad enough when you are answering a high number of calls from people complaining, how about calling them to sell something? How many times have you or someone you know hung up on a sales person? Being a telemarketer means you have monthly quotas to meet. If you don't meet those quotas, you're fired. Like all sales jobs, once they're done chewing you, they will spit you out.
4. Greenpeace Fundraiser - With so many ways to save the world, this can be left off the list. Greenpeace is always hiring "fundraiser associates", which means you're on the sidewalk handing out flyers. The catch is this, you have to get a certain amount of people to sign up for subscriptions in a day. This "subscription" is a monthly charge for people who have a soft spot for the environment. What starts out as a donation, becomes another crooked reoccurring charge scam. If you really want to make a difference in the environment, there are plenty of real opportunities to do so.
3. Working From Home - If you're looking for a real job, chances are you need steady income. Working from home making money online works for some people and doesn't work for others. Like all of these shaky offers, it's a gamble. Most job sites are marinated with "work from home" scams. These jobs take so many different forms it's hard to tell them apart. Selling makeup, referring people to websites, assembling products from home and mailing them back, filling out surveys, attending seminars, spamming email, almost all of these jobs you see are part of a pyramid scheme.
The people behind these scams are extremely desperate for money and will use you to get it. They will sell you a pipe-dream if you let them, and give you a hefty start-up fee to boot. If you get enough of the "Run-around" from other places in your life, avoid this heartbreak.
2. Customer Service (Call Center) - Oh the agony! Sitting in a cubicle answering phone calls, making phone calls, reading a script word for word, navigating through multiple systems with multiple log-ins, having a supervisor plug into your line and sit behind you to observe your performance, all while a customer is ripping your head off.
These jobs are usually filled with the most miserable and depressed people. If you are looking for a job you will want to quit after the first week, then look for a customer service job in a call center.
The people behind these scams are extremely desperate for money and will use you to get it. They will sell you a pipe-dream if you let them, and give you a hefty start-up fee to boot. If you get enough of the "Run-around" from other places in your life, avoid this heartbreak.
2. Customer Service (Call Center) - Oh the agony! Sitting in a cubicle answering phone calls, making phone calls, reading a script word for word, navigating through multiple systems with multiple log-ins, having a supervisor plug into your line and sit behind you to observe your performance, all while a customer is ripping your head off.
These jobs are usually filled with the most miserable and depressed people. If you are looking for a job you will want to quit after the first week, then look for a customer service job in a call center.
1. The "Financial Industry" (Insurance Agent) - If you're currently looking for a job, good chances are you've heard of jobs in the "Financial Industry". For those that don't know, the "Financial Industry" is selling insurance. These business will call you if you're resume is on a job site, set up a fake interview, bring you in a room full of other "Agents", walk around and introduce you, sit you back out in the lobby, bring you in an office, give you a presentation and tell you they need $300 for your background check and license to be an insurance agent. This process doesn't guarantee you a job and the money is non-refundable.