Basically, my job was to cold-call company executives and get them to attend these web conferences that company that hired me hosts.
First issue: the job was purely commission-based and although the guys who hired me were, of course, all like, "Yeah, you can make some really good money this way," etc, etc. the truth became amply evident when I actually came in my first day and they took me on a tour. They had roomfuls of people doing what I'd be doing, and the guy taking me around -- their boss -- asked them all how many sign-ups they'd managed so that day. By around 4:30, most people were lucky to have had 2 in something like 8 hours of calling people. Naturally, for a purely commission-based position this was pretty ass. Not only that, but each sign-up only gets you $10. So people were earning $20 a day doing a full-time job. Absolutely ridiculous
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Remember: I took a year off after first year to work in England. Then I came back for second year onwards. I consider myself an 0T7 though; I don't care about whatever the precedent is. :)
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First issue: the job was purely commission-based and although the guys who hired me were, of course, all like, "Yeah, you can make some really good money this way," etc, etc. the truth became amply evident when I actually came in my first day and they took me on a tour. They had roomfuls of people doing what I'd be doing, and the guy taking me around -- their boss -- asked them all how many sign-ups they'd managed so that day. By around 4:30, most people were lucky to have had 2 in something like 8 hours of calling people. Naturally, for a purely commission-based position this was pretty ass. Not only that, but each sign-up only gets you $10. So people were earning $20 a day doing a full-time job. Absolutely ridiculous ( ... )
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