It was a rainy Saturday when I started doing my job. You want to know my job? Oh well, it’s cool yet a challenging one. Let me ask you first. Are you familiar with “taho”? Taho (soybean custard) used to be exclusively a street food sold by ambulant vendors and that Saturday, I was able to sell Taho at the AB building. It’s really cool. But I am referring to a different Taho. It’s something we cannot eat literally but figuratively, we can eat what’s inside it and digest the things that we can get from it. Well, I am talking about our magazine. Taho is the official amateur magazine of the freshmen students from the Communication Arts Section 3(1CA3) of the Faculty of Arts and Letters or AB.
Upon the designation of departments where we would work, I really am thinking of going to the marketing department, particularly in promotions. But as the grouping continued, I wasn’t able to go with that department because it would be hard for me since all of them would be males. Since I have no choice, I only had to choose between the sponsors and the circulation. Thinking that I couldn’t help my colleagues that much because I don’t have connections, I went with the circulation department.
At first, I was disappointed of not being in the promotions since I was excited in planning for the promotion of the magazine and I was thinking that being in the circulation is not much important and that it would only be the job of the people who are bored and have nothing to do with their lives. Since I had no choice, I then became on of the staff of the circulation department. On the weeks that the magazine is being made, I found myself indolent because I haven’t done my part in the production of the magazine yet. As time went by and finally it was finished and ready to be published, I was a bit excited because finally, I can do my job. I was thinking that it would be cool and easy. Then the day has finally come. When I woke up, I was quite upset because of the weather; so I told myself that it would be cool. As I arrived in the AB building, I started to look at the people around. Then I suddenly felt something as I tried to talk to the first person to whom I was selling the magazine. I felt bashfulness. Then I realized at that instant that it wasn’t actually that easy to sell magazines especially magazines produced by us students because not all people would mind looking at it and appreciate it. You would also have to give extra effort to convince them so that they would buy your product. The common question that they ask is about the name of the magazine, “Why Taho?” That’s why you have to know the details of the magazine even though you’re not one of those who made it. You still have to know everything about the magazine and the sections in it. You should be able to answer their questions so that they would be really convinced that the magazine you are selling contains articles that are not claptrap. Lastly, you have to use your “charisma”.
Upon the designation of departments where we would work, I really am thinking of going to the marketing department, particularly in promotions. But as the grouping continued, I wasn’t able to go with that department because it would be hard for me since all of them would be males. Since I have no choice, I only had to choose between the sponsors and the circulation. Thinking that I couldn’t help my colleagues that much because I don’t have connections, I went with the circulation department.
At first, I was disappointed of not being in the promotions since I was excited in planning for the promotion of the magazine and I was thinking that being in the circulation is not much important and that it would only be the job of the people who are bored and have nothing to do with their lives. Since I had no choice, I then became on of the staff of the circulation department. On the weeks that the magazine is being made, I found myself indolent because I haven’t done my part in the production of the magazine yet. As time went by and finally it was finished and ready to be published, I was a bit excited because finally, I can do my job. I was thinking that it would be cool and easy. Then the day has finally come. When I woke up, I was quite upset because of the weather; so I told myself that it would be cool. As I arrived in the AB building, I started to look at the people around. Then I suddenly felt something as I tried to talk to the first person to whom I was selling the magazine. I felt bashfulness. Then I realized at that instant that it wasn’t actually that easy to sell magazines especially magazines produced by us students because not all people would mind looking at it and appreciate it. You would also have to give extra effort to convince them so that they would buy your product. The common question that they ask is about the name of the magazine, “Why Taho?” That’s why you have to know the details of the magazine even though you’re not one of those who made it. You still have to know everything about the magazine and the sections in it. You should be able to answer their questions so that they would be really convinced that the magazine you are selling contains articles that are not claptrap. Lastly, you have to use your “charisma”.
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