Oh my god, it freaks me out when friends turn into financial planners, insurance agents, etc. and start chasing you in impersonal ways in order to find business. I can fully understand they need to make a living and they are taught certain aggressive ways to find business. Yet, having known them as friends before, it seems so bizarre when they treat you like a customer.
Just now, on facebook, a friend whom I haven't talked to in a while, sent me an instant message: Have you thought about where you want to be in 5 years?
I freaked out and closed facebook.
Last time I talked to this person was on the phone - and he wanted to sell some business solutions. Even though I stated that I wasn't the person to decide on these admin decisions, he relentlessly probed in other ways to try and obtain other contacts from me, the way sales training courses teach you. I don't know what they teach in these companies - that everyone they know is a business opportunity and should be leveraged fully?
I find it sad because he is to me a friend, and I'd like him to think of me as a friend. He is normally a very nice person. He used to comment on my facebook. Now we have zero interaction except sales calls/ messages.
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