So Much For My Illustrious Carreer In Politics...

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Must have done something right, they offered me a job. More like an audition. If you passed the first unpaid day, they hired you.

Guess what the job is? Turned out to be mostly door-to-door fundraising. Woohoo! Or not. Not only that....but what boils down to comission-based pay. You get paid $64/day, and 35% of what you raise as you go door to door, they expect you to raise at least $90/day. The more you raise, the faster you can advance in the organization. Any other positions were based out of Silver Spring. They failed to mention this over the phone or on their job ad. Oh, and there's some getting people to write postcards or make phone calls to their senator.

Yeah, and then the interview itself...the guy doing the interview couldn't even answer the questions I asked based on information that's prominently displayed on their website. I asked about their work with pecific organizations and his answer was "Uhhhh....some of their members are on our board of trustees or something..."

So not impressed. So not taking the job.

Comments

[chironcentaur.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's too bad. But who wants to be one of those annoying people knocking at your door during dinner. :-)

Good luck on the next interview!

[mmc327.livejournal.com]

UGH I've done that kind of job. I lasted two days. I hated it. I did it in the dead of summer for US PIRG, which was based in Bethesda. We went to some pricey neighborhood in Rockville the first day and then to a neighborhood in Howard County the next day. I think I raised a grand total of $25 so they told me not to come back. That was fine with me because I was like yeah you can take this crappy job and shove it where the sun don't shine. I didn't use those exact words though. Being a college student on summer break at the time and living with my parents, I decided it would be better to be unemployed than do that.

[ranger-hotsauce.livejournal.com]

Sounds like their ad should have said "Makk3 huge m0ney__ from home"

[ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com]

My wife got involved in something like that, except it had no base pay. You were very suspicious to be dubious of advancement in an organization like that.

Advancement in a sales organization is a very difficult thing to actually get a feel for. Usually the best money to be made is made by the people on the front lines and if supervisors are offered any commission opportunities at all (for meeting team goals) it is highly unprofessional to talk about it because it compromises your ability to supervise. Quite often it's a case of "those who can't play, coach" or those who burnt out or those who sucked up enough. The best performers stay out in the field because somebody's gotta get the work done.

Best of luck with the next round *hugs*.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

ooooh, now i'm suspicious? :-P

I've found out enough about the organization to see that they are a legitemate group- i've found out about the projects that they're working on and what they've done in the past...i just think that it was badly presented and the guy running the towson office doesn't exactly have his ducks in the same basket or something

it doesn't suck any less though *hugs*

[ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com]

Oops, I meant "right to be", but I take it you got the point, brat :P.

AJ's group was clearly not legitimate, although they had the trust of a large part of the academic community. Yeah, your guy sounds like he's a few beers short of a case :).

[fuego.livejournal.com]

I'm not a brat!

[ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com]

This is where I wish I had one of those O RLY owl icons... ;).

[fuego.livejournal.com]

now you're just being obnoxious :-P

[ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com]

1) You're a lovable brat, I'll give you that.
2) Ya love me anyway, and that's gonna make it better, methinks. *grins, bats eyes, looks adorable* ;)

[fuego.livejournal.com]

awww isn't that disgustingly adorable?

[ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com]

*grin* :)

[pagandenma.livejournal.com]

Better luck next time hon!

[tecie.livejournal.com]

Been there (actually AM CURRENTLY there).

Better you caught it now.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

you're doing political fundraising door-to-door? oooohh...i want to see that!

[sunneyone.livejournal.com]

wow. that's.... sorry.

[forexample.livejournal.com]

necroluth experienced this a while back when he worked for MaryPIRG. The enforced hard sell tactics left me with a bad taste about political action groups.