First of all, let's go over what an elevator pitch is. An elevator pitch is a short summary used to quickly and simply define a person, profession, service, organization or event and its value proposition. In my case, our class had to do an elevator pitch as part of our interview process in our "Professionalism in the Workplace" class. The name "Elevator Pitch" reflects the idea that it should be possible to deliver the summary in the time span of an elevator ride, or approximately thirty seconds to two minutes. So, to practice, the professor and the rest of the class (There's only 4 of us in the class) got on to an ACTUAL elevator to do our elevator interview/resume pitches. It went well... until other people started using the elevator and looking at us weird. We tried to plow through our mock interviews inside the elevator the best we could, but it was too hard with random people getting on and off. Then I just lost it. We all did. We all laughed so hard... which just made the other people more uncomfortable because they had no idea why we kept riding up and down on the elevator laughing at everyone that got on. One guy said to his buddy, "We gotta get away from these damn nutjobs," as he got off! I laughed so hard at one lady turning red in the face that I snorted trying to keep the laughter at bay... which DID NOT help the situation at all! We did this for about 30 minutes before we all just gave up... and because if we laughed at anymore strangers, we were all gonna pee ourselves. I got a headache and the hiccups from all the laughing, not to mention my abs and gut is still sore 4 hours afterward...
And that's what I did at school today... How was your day?
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