All this talk of new jobs

[plowsie]

You know, Ed and G, I was getting all jealous.

So, Friday afternoon on the off chance I called a few places on the JobCentrePlus website. Got an interview booked in for 10.30 this morning.

Sounds like I did all the right things, cos I got the job :smt050

Happy as Larry I am, really buzzing :tiesto:

New job is a marketing door to door job at the moment on behalf of Scottish Power who are apparently the cheapest in Northampton at the moment (yeah right, they all say that). Wages are so much better and within a year I could be fully trained as a manager and have my own branch anywhere in the country as long as there is a unit :D Targets are to get 2 people to sign a day, some days you will hit them, some days you won't.

But, main thing is getting out of this place, I started a thread a while ago stating I really wanted to leave, but needs must and bills have to be paid.

Anyway, best do some notice typing (*scratches head* where's that thread of Maria's...).

A very happy Plowface :rendeer::smt029:):D:smt050:tiesto:

xxx

[Jamiebridges123]

Well done :D

Although I'm not sure if I could do that door-to-door stuff..

[mike_avfc]

youre brave ! had npower at the door yesterday, during superbikes ! Suffice to say it didn't last long..

[arcdef]

Well done, but as above, i wouldn't have the drive to sell door to door all day!

[chasey]

Congrats Plowsie!

I couldn't do the door to door thing either. I have collected for Charity door-to-door and it get's a little soul destroying!

All the best though dude!

[plowsie]

Thanks guys, the door to door thing I am fairly confident about, I am a very talkative, outgoing, face-to-face confident person. Liaising with customers I do well too so fairly happy, it's a new career with new demands that I am fairly happy about :)

We shall see how well things go :)

[Ed]

youre brave ! had npower at the door yesterday, during superbikes ! Suffice to say it didn't last long..

Plowsie, you just have to choose your time right. I dont mind cold callers at the door (unless they're selling religion) because we do enough of it ourselves, the rules say I can't cold call private clients but I can cold call business ones. I get used to being sent away with a flea in my ear, it's water of a duck's back now, but we have won a lot of work this way. My advice is not to make things too complex, it can be difficult to take in all the comparative costs structures and being asked to sign up there and then.

[plowsie]

Plowsie, you just have to choose your time right. I dont mind cold callers at the door (unless they're selling religion) because we do enough of it ourselves, the rules say I can't cold call private clients but I can cold call business ones. I get used to being sent away with a flea in my ear, it's water of a duck's back now, but we have won a lot of work this way. My advice is not to make things too complex, it can be difficult to take in all the comparative costs structures and being asked to sign up there and then.
Thanks Ed.

As well as the door to door work. There are bigger better opportunities, business to business sales and more so, Roadshow etc, so I could be one of them planks who stands in the middle of town asking people if they pay the bills and if they would like to save money...

I am slightly excited, but also apprehensive about it. It's a dive more than a step to change careers as I more than well know, the risk that I may not be liked/effective. I just hope I do well and can make something of it :)

[Dappa D]

plowsie....i said as much in my own thread but congrats fella....

ive worked in sales in one form or another for 12 yrs...never done door 2 door personally but known and hired a lot who have...some love it, some hate it, from what you have said it sounds like you will be good at it and good luck mate!!

[L3nny]

I did that job for British Gas a few (10) years ago.

I don't want to pi$$ on your bonfire but It was bloody hard work and the amount of money they said you could earn was nowhere near what most people did. I was told the top earners were on 1-2 grand a week and while one or 2 may have been the vast majority were struggling to earn 300 - 400

It takes a special kind of person to do well at door to door sales, I found it soul destroying being told to eff of by the majority of people I called on, I was also threatned with violence most days.

They also messed me about when claiming for petrol expenses, in the end I was doing about 60 miles drving a day and if I made no sales then it would end up costing me money.

However if you are dedicated and don't mind putting up with the crap there is money to be made. Just make sure you sort out how much you can claim for petrol and double check all the expense claims you make.

Good luck.

[plowsie]

I did that job for British Gas a few (10) years ago.

I don't want to pi$$ on your bonfire but It was bloody hard work and the amount of money they said you could earn was nowhere near what most people did. I was told the top earners were on 1-2 grand a week and while one or 2 may have been the vast majority were struggling to earn 300 - 400

It takes a special kind of person to do well at door to door sales, I found it soul destroying being told to eff of by the majority of people I called on, I was also threatned with violence most days.

However if you are dedicated and don't mind putting up with the crap there is money to be made.

Good luck.
Yep also thinking into the aspects you state, the salary stated is bottom rate, £3-500 per week.

[Miss Alpinestarhero]

Congrats dude! :D

[G]

Congratulation mate,

Its proof that there is jobs out there, me leaving at work has sent shockwaves out. I work in construction and there is a massive opinion generally in the sector that there are no jobs about at the moment. Now everyone is looking and applying for jobs at work.

Glad I was a motivator :cool:

[Jools'SV Now]

well done chap.

did some door to door stuff years ago.

biggest thing to get your head round is that when they're saying no, they're not saying no to you. just what you represent.

ie, it's a professional rejection, not a personal one.

[plowsie]

Upon advice from various bods, and that my current work have made me a very good offer over the next few months, I have decided not to take my new job and stay put where I am.

I handed my notice in week before last week and all over that weekend I was pondering whether all the work I had done and the distance I had gone over the past 3 years, was worth wasting. No, was the basic answer. Anyway, I walked in to the office managers office on Monday and aired some real thoughts and discrepancies that I had, we talked money and benefits...A bonus that was revoked last month (£300), he authorised but never knew it had been revoked. He is getting me that back this month, we are going to talk more about my wages towards the end of the month and hopefully raise me by £200. Company car within the next few months also.

He then asked me to go down to the boss's office with him, we told him the decisions and agreements we had made and also discussed my thoughts and problems. After all that, I certainly felt a lot better. I was told that I am going to be going in for my CF1,2 and 3 this year and that they want me to pass these, as soon as I have got them out of the way, I will be on much better money £22k+. They're words were, "Now Stu, we're glad you are staying, we've layed the cake on the table and are holding the knife, but we want you to create the motion. The only person who can pan out your future is you, we are willing to discuss pay etc but you have got to meet us halfway". I have been told to get some organisation with the work I am doing and use my time that I have free to do practice papers and revision.

Like I say the various advice from people (not only on here), swayed me away from the marketing door to door job and the fact that I had no guarantee on salary in the end, I have too many liabilities to meet, so that was not ideal.

Over the past week, I have actually enjoyed work and feel like I am in a new job. Things have become easier, and the new organisation seems to work well with me :D

[Baph]

He then asked me to go down to the boss's office with him, we told him the decisions and agreements we had made and also discussed my thoughts and problems.


Good to hear! It takes a fair amount of balls for most people in the UK to negotiate terms effectively. Well done. :)