finally, a job!

Yay Samuel got hired yesterday!  It’s kind of a glorified sales job which we’re both vaguely ashamed of, but it’s really not bad at all.

1. he has to sell the product to people

2. but he doesn’t go door-to-door.  the interested customers call in and say when they would like someone to come visit them. then workers like Samuel look at the list of people and times and choose who they want to visit.  then he visits them and tries to sell the product.  so he doesn’t have to go bug people.  they are asking for him to come sell them the product.

3. and he doesn’t have to sell things to make money.  if he visits 40 people per month, he is guaranteed to be paid a fixed amount, which will cover our bills.  if he sells something, he gets more. they expect the average worker to make a sale at least 10% of the time.  also, they are looking to promote people really soon, which means you get more money.  they claim they are having to turn down tons of customers (which is why they are hiring) so there should be no shortage of people to visit.

4. there’s no contract or down payment or anything fishy like that.

all in all it seems good and I think Samuel will be good at it too.  and one of the best things is that he went to work TODAY!  it is for training, which we are not sure he gets paid for because he forgot to ask, but I would be surprised if they didn’t, because he has to do training for 60 days and that would be a lot to ask of someone who doesn’t have an income, which theoretically the people they are hiring don’t.

also, they pay weekly!  so, as long as they pay for training, we will have money soon.  we can buy things like groceries, lightbulbs, dish soap, and so on.  and we can start saving money again.  we are so relieved.

I just ate breakfast with my husband and then he went off to work, so I’m feeling all hausfrau right now and I’m going to go clean or something.