Why would someone agree to give their credit card details to an unsolicited stranger if they could just as easily say “I’ll look this up online later?” Fortunately, this was a subscription for recipe boxes. I was selling an internet-based subscription service, which made it even more difficult.
You learn so much because it’s a hard job and if you don’t learn quickly and well you won’t make anything, you’ll only lose money in transportation and the replacement costs of new shoes. If you do it wrong, you can make absolutely nothing. If you do the job right, you can make more than an architect. The atmosphere of the office every morning is intoxicating, addicting even. The energy of the people who do it is electric.
It’s unlike any other job I’ve ever done or heard about. It’s a brutal expectation in an industry where your customers are predisposed to hate you for interrupting their day with a pitch. You get paid for sales.Īt some level, it’s terrifying. But you don’t get paid for your ability to prepare for the cold. It makes the profession of a door-to-door salesperson more an exercise in preparation than anything else: at least three layers, including scarf and gloves. It brings the temperature down lower than it looks on the forecast and it’s very easy for 2 degrees Celsius to feel more like 2 degrees Fahrenheit. If there’s one thing that sucks about the outdoors in Scotland it’s the wind chill.
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