I’m really glad my first (part time) job as a fresh-out-of-highschool 17 year old required me to call about 5-6 companies/people per workday. A good number of whom where existing business relations, so not a whole lot of room to fuck up.
First week was really anxiety-inducing, because I HATED making phone calls.
After that, no issue. Today, I’d 1000% rather call a doctor’s office, restaurant, plumber,… Than write an email. Online forms are fine, but phone calls are just better. You can get the back and forth often needed for planning done in like 5 seconds.
I had that up until my thirties, I just could not handle the intensity of those awkward silences or miscommunications and if I had to have a phone call, would actively race my mind desperately searching for a way to fluidly fill them.
Now: “yeah whatdyou want? alright bye. Yeah, yeah he did do that. Yeah, bye. Huh? Oh his birthday? yeah.” *click*
I’m really glad my first (part time) job as a fresh-out-of-highschool 17 year old required me to call about 5-6 companies/people per workday. A good number of whom where existing business relations, so not a whole lot of room to fuck up.
First week was really anxiety-inducing, because I HATED making phone calls.
After that, no issue. Today, I’d 1000% rather call a doctor’s office, restaurant, plumber,… Than write an email. Online forms are fine, but phone calls are just better. You can get the back and forth often needed for planning done in like 5 seconds.
I had that up until my thirties, I just could not handle the intensity of those awkward silences or miscommunications and if I had to have a phone call, would actively race my mind desperately searching for a way to fluidly fill them.
Now: “yeah whatdyou want? alright bye. Yeah, yeah he did do that. Yeah, bye. Huh? Oh his birthday? yeah.” *click*
Interesting, that sounds more related to personal phone calls?
I was more thinking of the “single-purpose” kind of call, where you can communicate very clearly about your intetions