What a bad day!

Clarence and i started on the aia surveyor job today and we waited for about half an hour for the insurance agent to arrive. We were then briefed on what to do and the terms and conditions of our job. The target survey group had to be between 24 - 35 years of age and their educational level had to be diploma or higher. The survey is to get more information about the group as they want to hire more insurance agents or financial advisors. After that, the agents had to discuss something and told us to go for a break at the coffee shop beside the building. 30 mins later, they finished their discussion and brought us to the area outside Raffles Place mrt. There were quite a lot of working adults as usual since today is a weekday.

We started by approaching people who were walking around. Bad idea, almost no one wanted to stop and do the survey. Getting quite pessimistic after 15 mins without having a single survey done. I changed my strategy and aimed those people sitting down. Their response was better and i continued asking until i had no one else sitting to ask. There was also a long queue for free bread and i aimed those people who are waiting in the queue. However, most of them were aunties and uncles who do not fit the target group. After about 1 and a half hour, we had completed around 13 or 14 surveys each but it started to rain and we went into a nearby building to seek shelter. We had to continue asking people for surveys and the atm machines in the building helped us a lot. We asked those people who are waiting to withdraw money to help us do the surveys.

Some of the people i surveyed are not willing to divulge their personal particulars and i just told them directly that they can leave fake contact numbers if they want. We have to reach a quota of 30 surveys per 3 hour session and the insurance agents would not be pleased if many of them did not fill in their contact numbers as it is the only means of contacting the people.

A very long 2 hrs 30 mins had past and we decided to take a break since we had been working quite hard just now. Got a total of 22 completed surveys while clarence got 20. The both of us are really quite sick of the job and i am really sick (ill) as well. We decided to give up doing this job as it is much worse than what we expected. It is tiring, demoralising and mentally exhausting too. Returned to the aia building after taking mrt to outram park. We told the people in charge of us of our decision to quit after our lunch. They tried to think of several solutions to lighten our workload but we declined their offer and resigned. They paid us $40 for 3 hours of survey work and 3 hours of waiting, eating and attending the briefing.

My 3rd job and i thought it would last longer than a day. Guess i should be waiting for my GHS job to start 1 week later.

Had a terrible day as i was not feeling well after doing the 3 hr surveying. My body temperature was fluctuating as well since i got an off and on fever since tue. Much better now after seeing the doctor and i was diagnosed with throat infection. Sick of being sick!