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12/06/11(Tue)02:14:31 No. 633049 >>633016 Yeah,
for a month or two I actually worked a legitimate, 100% commission
sales job where I'd have to meet up with co-workers in an office, go
over the plan for the day, be split into groups with more experienced
salesmen in a given territory, and canvas from local business to local
business, trying to get them to sign up with the company we represented
at the time who sold debit/credit card machines. We'd have to try
and get the owner of the local business, look over their finances
regarding debit/credit card fees charged by their merchant processor,
and try and explain to them how our rates were lower and we could save
them money (which we actaully could do, their rates WERE competitive,
it's just hard to walk into a place, ask for the owner, get their
financiala, and actually close the sale. Needless to say, I
didn't do all that well, but the experience it gave me was well worth
the fact that for about a month i worked 7-7, 5 days a week, for minimal
pay. I learned a lot about how confidence and appearance are
very powerful tools in life. It was really quite fun, travelling all
over the city with guys slightly older than me, absorbing knowledge
wherever I could. I also worked briefly as a street canvasser for
a local childrens' charity, you know those douchebags who stop you when
you're out for a walk and try and get you to donate money. Another
super-social job. It was a group interview too, I was in the same
room as 8-10 other kids roughly my age out for the same job. When the
question of experience came up, I brought up my previous sales job with
the debit machines and no one else had a story to top that. I was told
shortly after the meeting concluded that I was one of 2 candidates
actually hired on.