I was just thinking about a few years ago when a buddy of mine got me a job with him selling random stuff from door to door, mostly stripmalls hitting up employees and places like that. At the time I absolutely hated sales & really didn't want to do it, but I needed a job bad. I had mostly painters clothes and my good clothes were better suited for a dance club than sales, so I ended up borrowing dress pants and shirts from my buddy who was about 300+ pounds vs my 180 pounds, and from my dad who got them from his dad. Needless to say I looked like a retired clown. I had to wake up at 4AM and get to this place at 5AM, which is earlier than I ever had to wake up for work in my life. We all met up at a bagel shop, where I felt entirely out of place wearing my clown outfit with this group of people in suits and ties. Even the bagel shop owner looked at me like I was on my own. After bumming breakfast money from my buddy and we all got done eating we went across the street to a warehouse full of stuff. after half an hour or so someone finally showed up with the key and everyone piled inside the office. We spent about an hour listening to motivational speaches and walking around trying to sell stuff to eachother, which I really didn't get the point of, though now I understand it but still don't get the point. I figured they were just going to send me out with my buddy to get the hang of it, but instead they sent me out with the receptionist lady, who hadn't been out doing sales for ages to see how I did. We went to all of her old spots, she taught me that "No Soliciting" signs are actually big "We're weak, come sell us !!" signs, so we ended up stopping at every one of these places we saw. I literally got chased out of a few of them, some people knew I didn't want to be there & struck up conversation with me about it. I couldn't sell this stuff I had for the life of me, I didn't want the stuff myself let alone want to dump the stuff on someone else. There was some sort of shampoo I remember only because some lady with no teeth bought a whole case of it from my receptionist partner and I made a joke about how she wasn't going to have any hair either after she used that crap. I have no idea what the rest of the stuff was, other than some gift basket thing. We ended up at some industrial complex and the receptionist sent me out in one direction while she went in the other. I couldn't sell anything there either. Now this time when I came back I was missing a gift basket & I had no clue where it was, I went back to all of the places I'd gone in to and nobody had seen it. At this point I think I'd driven the receptionist completely nuts, I think she wanted to leave my ass out there and go back to the office but we got back in her car to try one more spot. She was soo frustrated that she backed her car into a pole hard enough to smash her rear bumper up and it was all I could do not to laugh, I know she would have left my ass out there if I'd laughed and I had no idea where I was. After wrecking her car she was done, she went straight back to the office and didn't say a word to me the whole trip back. I sat in the passenger seat just trying to think of something else so I didn't laugh. Back at the office the boss and her had a meeting in his office while I sat out in the lobby with a few other guys that were back already. 15 minutes or so later this guy calls me into his office, I passed the receptionist on my way in and she didn't even look at me. He asked me if this was something I really wanted to do, and since I really needed a job I said yeah even though I didn't. The funny part is that even though I looked like a retired clown, didn't sell a single thing, actually lost product, and frustrated the receptionist to the point of wrecking her car, I was still able to sell the boss on the fact that I was going to show up the next day and he gave me $20 cash out of his own pocket. Then again, maybe he just felt sorry for me. I never want back & have yet to do any kind of non-Internet sales again since that day. I learned a lot that I didn't understand until I was older that day though and will never forget it.