I worked at call centers before my current career (electrician). I made decent “buy gas, smoke weed, take my gf out to eat” level money for a 24 year old kid but the work and the environment was absolute dog shit. I’m either too nice (lol) of a person or too honest (double lol) but I could not just lie or be intentionally vague enough to sell customers on satellite TV contracts, a new phone, or a new tablet.
The job was a thin veneer of customer service over a very very thick layer of “sell them anything you can, who cares if they’ll cancel it in a couple months or default on the payments”. I didn’t mind the “helping people out” part of the job but I hate(d) sales. I would show up to the job stoned every day because I was crushed by the bureaucratic rules, my calls constantly being recorded and reviewed, and some of the coworkers made the place worse. You would have a supervisor or team leader riding herd on your ass to meet sales quotas but the ladies with no scruples and low self esteem would skate by because they’d blow/fuck the sup before or after work. I didn’t even begin to maybe attempt to pursue any of my female coworkers because the HR fag (he was comically gay) made such a big deal about drilling the sexual harassment regs that I didn’t want to get in any hot water. And for that paranoia, my female coworkers ended up throwing the “we thought you were gay since you never hit on us” psyop my way.
I eventually quit and now I work in construction. maybe it’s a little gay since none of my coworkers are female, but I make way better money, even if I have to get through some physical pain and discomfort to do so. I get to operate cool machinery, have banter with the boys, it’s a genuinely meritocratic job, and I’m usually doing something different every day so I don’t have the same soul crushing repetitive monotony. The hours are a little early/long, but the physical aspect of the work in addition to the tempo of it kind of makes the day go by quick. That’s another thing I hated about being at that call center. I had a fucking awkward “oh I get wednesdays and Sundays off” thing going on where I worked from 12-8pm. With what I do now, I work from 7-3:30 (kind of) and I get weekends off, like normal folk.
>tl;dr: I prefer working in construction over a call center.