Have you ever applied for a job that you weren’t qualified to do? I can’t say that I have. However, anytime I took a new job, there were new things to learn and I had to bring my existing skills into the new job and apply them while also learning about my new duties. I’ve always admired people who can jump right out of one field and into another in which they have no skills. Especially if a person is trying to become a salesperson, this can be super challenging. Sales is hard work. Not only do you have to know your product and believe in it but you also have to know a lot about human nature and how to be convincing. After all, your main job is to help people part from their money. It’s not for me! But the guy in the joke below is a natural at it. Enjoy!
A man who isn’t qualified keeps pestering this tailor about giving him a job selling suits. Finally, the owner tells him if he can sell this one green suit he will give him a job.
Another employee points out to owner that they have had that suit on the rack for four years, and that it is such an ugly, green suit that nobody would ever buy it.
The owner replies, “Yah, I know. That’s my way of getting rid of that pest!”
Two hours later the new guy calls his boss for his next assignment.
The owner cannot believe it and heads down to the store to see how this fellow did it. Upon arrival he sees his new salesman bleeding, scratched, and his clothes torn in several places, but smiling.
“Congratulations, the job is yours! Nobody has come close to selling that old, ugly, green suit. But tell me, what in the world happened to you?”
“Well, replied the salesman, the guy that bought the suit loved it… said it fit him great. As far as my injuries go, his seeing-eye dog wasn’t exactly happy about it!”
