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[valkryor]

I met up with someone (a potential job lead sent to me by sorceress_medea) to discuss working at Primerica. I'm not sure how I feel about a career in financial planning. It didn't leave me cold or make me feel oogie, but I'm going to do some research into the company itself to clarify whatever decision I make. I do have an appointment to meet with him at the office itself on Monday, so that gives me a few days to do some thinking/digging around.

Afterwards, I went into Ten Thousand Villages and poked around. I wanted to buy lots of Christmas ornaments, not because Christmas is my favourite holiday, but because the ornaments there are unique and interesting and better than anything you'd find at a mall. Lack of funds aside, I did see something that I did want...a fish teapot. It had a spout coming out of the mouth and the handle was the tail and the fin was the lid. It looked really nifty. I don't need it, per se, but it's fun and would be entertaining to serve tea in.

I did, though, buy something...well, two things. The first was some chocolate. Not just any chocolate, but Cocoa Camino. *delightful shudder* It's probably some of the best chocolate I've ever eaten, and to make things even more decadent, they also produce cocoa powder as well as dark hot chocolate. So I buckled, and bought some chocolate. It was delish. :D

I also picked up something for me...lip balm. I know it sounds kooky, but I love buying odd lip balms and trying them out. My usual is from Delirium (Dirty Girl's Get Ready Raspberry). It's nice when it's new, but near the end it becomes gritty, which is less than pleasing to my lips. Ten Thousand Villages is now carrying body products and I decided to try their lip balm. So far, I like it a lot. And at nearly half the price of the Dirty Girl, it's a bargain.

Well, I really should go and work on my novel. Le sigh. I'm toying with the idea of bouncing back and forth between two projects. One the one hand, it's likely I won't finish either, but on the other, it will give me something else to focus on if I should get stuck on what to write next.

Comments

[carolep.livejournal.com]

re: Primerica

talk to him, but don't sign anything. Primerica works on commission only, and it's damned hard to sell term life insurance to people. Besides, you have to pay to certify yourself. Then they'll talk you into taking upgrade courses (all expensive) to be able to sell mutual funds (which you'll have to certify yourself for.)

IF you're good at sales AND you have a good network of people who a) have money and b) want crappy term insurance, then you might get somewhere with them. Other than that, they're serious scam artists.

(Yes, George was "interviewed" ... read "shanghaied" by them)

[sorceressmedea.livejournal.com]

I actually had no idea he was talking about Primerica... I'd been left with the impression that it was his own business (which might very well have been me not listening hard enough...). You're wise to look into it... best of luck with it, either way :)

[hare-mengele.livejournal.com]

I went to one of their meetings once. They get their recruits to do recruiting, until you move up the pyramid (although they fiercely claim not to be a pyramid system). As far as I'm concerned, it's a scam.

They talk well, so beware.

[joncanuck]

Be very careful, it's a really tough business to get into even if you get the proper support.

They also do insane levels of credit checks, but only *after* you've paid a lot of the entry fees as well (this is from someone I knew who talked to them.)

So if you have a certain amount of debt, they won't take you on. But you'll have to fight tooth and nail to get the hundreds of dollars back.

Just something to keep in mind