I'm currently working in a call center where I'm part of a team that enrolls people in their group insurance benefits. I've done this for the past month.
Prior to this temp gig, I sold windows and doors for a large home improvement company. That job lasted 4 months, but the hours and drive time was a killer.
What both of these jobs have done is return my confidence. I was jobless for better than two years, though I was interviewing periodically.
It took me being forced to go into people's home's doing direct sales to realize that people accepted me simply as the woman I am. My fear had been holding me back, big time.
While working in the call center, I've worked hard on my voice, with much success. I will say, however, that 6 hours on the phone requires lots of constant sips of H20.
Unless I decide differently, I plan on going back into the field as an insurance saleswoman come December. (I had owned my own insurance agency for 14 years prior to transition)
I guess we don't realize how transition will be for each of us. I thought I had planned it all so well, but it took me an additional 3 years to find my footing as a woman out in the daily work a day world. I'm glad to have arrived!
