John Wetmore recounts cold-calling for insurance sales, quitting after constant rejection, then getting called back two years later. He describes the awkward social reactions he gets when telling people what he does for work.
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I made like 20 calls or something stupid. And they all, you know, gave me whatever objection, you know, told me to fuck off basically. And I was like, I ain't doing this. And I quit that day. And 2 years went by and my buddy hit me up. So the day I dialed, I'd worked 1 day in the insurance business, I quit. And 2 years later, he's like, hey, you wanna do insurance? So I was like, nah, dude, that sucks. I did that. And I didn't know any better. Dude, I still, when people ask what I do, I try, I don't even know how to answer to make them not go, Oh, and like look away if I say anything to do with insurance and they don't know any much about what's going on. They don't know. They're just like, must be a corny insurance dude. I don't know. I get the weirdest reaction still to this day.