Such an Adult

One sweet day, I will overcome my irrational fear of making phone calls.

Conquer your fear fail

Partly as an attempt to conquer my phone-o-phobia, I briefly took a job as a customer service agent after school.

When I left the job three months later, my phobia was worse than ever. (Go figure.)

phone-o-phobia

I have an incredibly stupid fear of answering phone calls from people I don't know, or just answering phones in general. Thinking I'd be able to overcome my fear of phones by making myself confront the problem, I took a job as a customer service rep after university, only to find that it only made things worse (as 75% of the clients calling in were angry about something). Sure enough, I quit 3 months later and took refuge in the significantly less social world of translation.

And yes, I do actually cover my phone with a pillow and sit on it until it stops ringing.