RE: #5 on the list of Low Stress Jobs

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

 Julie Stickler tested the waters with:

 
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Melissa Nelson 
> <melmis36 -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:
> > Thanks for forwarding this article. It is very interesting! 
> I got a kick out of the number one least stressful job being 
> a trainer. I am working on a contract supporting a group of 
> trainers right now. I will have to remind them that they have 
> less stress than I do.
> 
> Trainers being low stress made me laugh too.   Especially when you
> consider that speaking in front of an audience is such a HUGE phobia
> for so many people!  I used to be a teacher, and I still get the
> occasional butterflies when I have to speak in front of a group of
> strangers.  And trainers have to be prepared for the most bizarre
> questions from their students.  I used to sit in on training classes
> once or twice a year at a previous gig, just for the customer
> contract, and some people think training = free consulting for their
> weird situations.


If some sales rep sold me your product, to do what I need to do, then your training d**n-well better address my weird situation. Hell, I'm paying for both the product and the training (or my employer is) - you better believe I'll be wanting to know how to get your product to do what the sales rep assured us it could/would.

 - Kevin


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