Today I Went to a Sales Interview.

Went to a sales interview today. This company has been at the school multiple times every year trying to pick up students with promises of valuable skills training and commission work and I've always passed by because honestly, commission sales? Give me a break. When they started advertising a guaranteed pay of $15/hour though, I thought I might as well go to the interview and see what it's about.

The three-part interview spanning an hour and a half was pretty interesting. Though there were only two other people with interviews at the same time today, I could feel the friendly competition already, especially from one middle-aged lady. Not really sure what was going on there. The product we were to promote seemed pretty decent and of high quality (a pair of scissors cut cleanly through a penny!). And though the structure of appointment settings and increasing commission seemed very promising, thank God for a critical voice in the back of my head reminding me that the view was an extremely optimistic one and extremely unlikely, especially starting out. But I was all ready to at least give it a shot when - and here's the kicker - they ask for a security deposit on your appointment demo set. Though they made it seem as reasonable as they could, the point was they were basically asking you to pay them to work there. Screw that.

I stayed and acted as if I had wanted a job, completing the third part of the interview, showed initiative and eagerness to start. And - no surprise here - I was hired and invited to begin training immediately.

Going to call them Monday, let them know that I have much better things to do with my time: unemployment.