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A weird request.

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I am looking for a job, I need to get on to earn money for my mission, and I was wondering if any of you knew of anyone heiring in the Provo/Orem, area if so please PM me, at this point I am almost willing to do any job. (watched to many dirty jobs, to say any job ;) )


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Re: A weird request.

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I like you tack....look for someone who is heiring...that way you just get buddy-buddy and wait for death.


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This post is a week too late, my company just hired about 10 people earlier this week. I'll let you know if anything else happens.


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hawkwing wrote:This post is a week too late, my company just hired about 10 people earlier this week. I'll let you know if anything else happens.

Thanks Hawk, I am always off in my timing :~(


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just don't serve a mission.

I am kidding, of course.

How soon are you leaving?
If you find a good summer job (selling alarm systems, for example), you can make GREAT money AS LONG as you have a tough work ethic. Don't listen to the people who say it's a waste of time... they are lazy and cannot communicate.
If you are a hard worker and a good communicator, you can easily make 20-50 grand in one summer.


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Italics wrote:just don't serve a mission.

I am kidding, of course.

How soon are you leaving?
If you find a good summer job (selling alarm systems, for example), you can make GREAT money AS LONG as you have a tough work ethic. Don't listen to the people who say it's a waste of time... they are lazy and cannot communicate.
If you are a hard worker and a good communicator, you can easily make 20-50 grand in one summer.
Those that install the alarms also make just about as much. My brother has done the installs two summers in a row.


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kiwibacon wrote:
Italics wrote:just don't serve a mission.

I am kidding, of course.

How soon are you leaving?
If you find a good summer job (selling alarm systems, for example), you can make GREAT money AS LONG as you have a tough work ethic. Don't listen to the people who say it's a waste of time... they are lazy and cannot communicate.
If you are a hard worker and a good communicator, you can easily make 20-50 grand in one summer.
Those that install the alarms also make just about as much. My brother has done the installs two summers in a row.
I can't speak for Alarm systems or door to door sales in utah (but we did have alarm boys in New Jersey and I met a few who went home early because they weren't making money)

I sold Pest Control in California in '97. I was the top salesman in my branch and made a few grand. They promised us the average salesman would earn 20k. I saw the entire company stat sheets. Only the top guys made anything close to that and by the time I was knocking the same neighborhood 3-4x that had also been knocked by other companies the same number of times, I felt cheated and swindled in an industry where lies and trickery abounded. I'm glad I got the sales experience, but it was a mormon snakepit. When I quit, I went home and got a waiter job and made just as much money without the 14 hour days in the California sun.


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CougarClaw wrote: I felt cheated and swindled in an industry where lies and trickery abounded. I'm glad I got the sales experience, but it was a mormon snakepit.
I know A LOT of people who tried selling pest control/alarms and lost a ton of money and hated the experience. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.


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Sadly, while there may be 1 honest alarm company and 1 honest pest control company, the whole industry is filled with corrupt, say and do anything scammers. The problem isn't necessarily the door to door guys they send out, but the company management which often gives false data and statistics to their employees to use in order to scare old women.

But then again, anyone who buys anything from a door to door sales person in this day and age is a sucker.


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