The hours say its a 11am-7pm job but it's really more like 10am - 9pm because most days you will have training start at 10am and you are only allowed to leave the field/neighborhood at 7 pm, in which you then have to drive back to the office that can sometimes be an hour or so away from the neighborhood you worked in. The pay is unclear to every new trainee that starts because they do not explain that the first 5 estimates you accumulate cover your base pay and are not considered commission like the interviewer vaguely made it seem to be. In the winter months you have to work in the cold rain and snow, which is just not enjoyable at all. Also, the amount of daylight is reduced and thus it is more difficult to generate a lead at night because homeowners tend to be sketched out by you.
The job is what it is. Door to door marketing for several hours on end in neighborhoods that get crushed by other door to door companies and thus you end up getting verbally abused day in and day out by people who simply do not want to be bothered by another sales man.
Lastly, the martketing position is as much of a sales position as anything else. Worse part is you have to lie and manipulate the nice homeowners into allowing a sales guy to come in the house and take up 3-4 hours of their time when you told them it only takes 30 minutes. If you have a heart, the position eventually starts to weigh on your conscience.
