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Gemmwah:
Job is shitty. I worked doing commission based stuff for a while, and although they offered me a basic wage too,  it was very high pressure to go for that commission. Taking away the wage would have made the job entirely unbearable. For reference, I worked for Zenith Bowater selling double glazing, doors, coving, drainage, garage doors etc. Ugh.

TheFuriousWombat:
Definitely don't do it. I worked as a street canvaser this summer in New York for Human Rights Campaign and it was brutal work. If people weren't telling my that all gays were going to burn in hell (the campaign this summer was for lgbt workplace equality) they were completely ignoring me almost without exception. You really lose some faith in humanity in those situations. Also you almost definitely don't want the bulk of your pay to come from a commission unless your really convincing. I quit pretty quickly, there's no way I could have endured even a month of it. Maybe you have better constitution than I do but I still say avoid it. There's plenty more out there somewhere. I'd honestly rather wait tables or make coffee than do that again.

benji:
This is sort of a scam, and it's done here in the states too. The whole point is that they recruit as many people as possible and then send you out. Anyway, I would only take that if you didn't have any other options. However, if you think you might like sales as a career it can be a good way to learn. My wife has said she learned more in 2 weeks of selling coupon books door to door then she learned as a car salesperson or as a sales rep for a publishing company. Working on straight commission can be the kind of sink or swim environment that can really get you going, but if you sink it's going to suck.

Aurjay:
Sounds like a horrible job. Sales is hard anyway but doing it door to door and then only on commission just seems cruel. I would also suspect a very high turnover being the reason they called you back so quickly. Also the whole work a day voluntarily just seems odd to me. If you work somewhere even if its just training you should get paid.

Barmymoo:
Whilst they're probably doing that voluntary day to save money, there can be a sensible reason behind it - when I was working on a telephone fundraising campaign we all did an evening without pay so that we could say we'd donated three hours' wages to the campaign. We weren't on commission, though, so it was less exploitative.

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