Turtle Trails

I'm not much of a phone conversationalist...I pretty much like to get the information, and if there is something important...fine...but I don't spend a lot of time talking on the phone to any one. I guess the biggest reason is that when I was little I got a lot of ear infections and no ever took me to the doctor so I developed some hearing loss...I have to look people in the face when I'm talking to them and pretty much read their lips in order to understand them. I get really flustrated when people try to go into a lot of details about things over the phone because I can't understand every thing they are saying. Not to mention the fact that I get tired of having to ask people to back up or repeat themselves. A lot of times I try to figure it out as they go but then I still don't get it. People think I'm not interested in talking to them, or I'm not listening to what they have to say, but it's like I'm really trying, I just can't hear.
I had a job as a telemarketer but they fired me because I seriously had like zero sales...the manager said, "I don't see how this is possible, just from the volume of people you contact, someone should have given in. The thing was that, even the people who were interested would get tried of dealing with me and hang up. People don't like telemarketers and they really don't like deaf telemarketers so I was, seriously, the worst telemarketer that has ever existed...I deserve a metal, trophy or something for that.