ugh.

There were just two reps here from a large publishing company and zowee! was that ever a boring meeting.

Perhaps I don't understand all that was said, perhaps a lot of it didn't pertain to me but whatever it was, I know that I definitely don't want to be a rep for a publisher - it's basically a sales job. yuck

I'm just not a sales kind of person. How can they tell a professor that your textbook will better serve students than some other textbook. How do they know which direction that prof will teach the course? They certainly don't seem interested in finding that kind of information out.
They just seemed to be so "we're going to do this better..." and "we're a better company for this..."
- like catty people slagging the competition but not making any definite statement about anything.

hmmmm, sounds a lot like a politician type job. I suppose I won't make a good one of those either.
Hey, at least I'm narrowing the list down.