Decisions, decisions

I took part in a conference call today about the sales job I applied for yesterday.

First I did a check on the internet for the company. Seems they have a bit of a rep for bullying old folk into buying stuff they don't want. OTOH, its unlikely that any satisfied customers are going to post to sites that are looking for negative reviews. If the satisfied customers post at all they are going to go to the companies site, and there were loads of positive posts there.

If I want to go further, I will have to attend a 4 day brainwashing session, er, training course, at a hotel down south. The training course will be free, and the hotel bill will be picked up by the company.

There is a course running next week. I could do the course, drive home Thursday night. Shadow an existing salesman on the Friday and Saturday, then be off on Monday visiting leads and selling the goods. They pay a percentage of whatever I sell, and pay weekly. Someone earned over £5000 one week this year. But the average weekly earnings are £860. Not that £860 a week is anything to sneeze at.

BUT, I can expect 2 or 3 leads a day, six days a week. One morning, one afternoon and one evening. Each visit will last 1 or 2 hours, or longer. So I could be working from 10 o'clock in the morning to 9 or 10 o'clock at night. Six days a week. Saturdays are their busiest days. Which makes sense. That when people are home.

So I could be working 11 or 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, for £36,000 a year (based on 45 working weeks in the year).

Of course, if I get good at it, I could earn a lot more. If I last and don't burn out, or fall asleep at the wheel.

Also, I would be self employed, so I would have to pay tax, higher level NI, accountant etc. petrol etc. out of that money.

Hmmmmm.