Door to door salesmen, how do you see us?

AryaStark wrote: »

Do you work long hours? I am thinking of doing something like this because being in the dole and doing nothing all day is killing me. Would you earn much weekly?

Personally I don't mind people who knock but am already signed up for enough while not working!!!

I went ahead and PM'd you some details to try keep the thread on topic

Jaxxy wrote: »

Quainy, though you've only posted a handful of times in this thread you do come across as being a positive, up-beat individual. You say you like what you do, that you gain a feeling of satisfaction when you sign someone up to your charity, and you feel that you're helping in some way. This all comes across clearly, and in general I would say job satisfaction is important.

I've no doubt that you're courteous in your dealings with the public, and I'd like to believe that you don't stoop to some of the "guilting" tactics that some of us are used to from charity employees. That said, can you genuinely not see where the majority of the posters in this thread are coming from?

Can you not see how intrusive your line of work is? What does it matter if we're the "I'm not in" type, or the "slam the door" type. You're on our property, you're disturbing us during anti-social hours, probably during a time when we're sitting down to dinner, or relaxing after a day's work, or trying to get the kids to bed. It's not wrong for us to want to ignore you. It's our prerogative.

Personally, I am almost always suspicious of people in your line of work. It angers me to see the elderly (in particular) being taken advantage of by pushy salesmen who sign up those who might not have the capacity to say no. I'd wager those of pensionable age are the bread and butter of your trade.

And let's call a spade a spade here; you're not saving the world. You're doing a job and you're getting paid for it. Like I said, job satisfaction is a nice perk of any position, but you're not just doing this out of the good of your heart. You're doing it to get paid. EDIT: That doesn't make you superior to the volunteers, be they fair-weather contributors or not.

You know, you spoke to me with a great deal of respect there, so much so that I want to reply to your post in full. First off, thank you for the compliments, I pride myself in the fact that I have a bubbly personality and that I was brought up by my grandfather who had served in the military, so I would certainly never badger anyone. I was though manners and no means no, even in my line of work.

I can see where everyone is coming from, I genuinely do, hell, I reckon if I wasn't doing what I am doing for a living then I would be of the same mindset. I just think that I can never truly see through a person's eyes without being in their position, so this thread was a sort of way for me to see it from the point of view of you guys.

It's an extremely intrusive line of work and in that sense, I feel genuinely bad, when I call to a door, I can tell, just by the look a person gives me. If I see that "Don't ever darken my doorway again" look, I simply smile and tell them to have a nice evening and that I am sorry for interrupting their day. You guys can be busy, that's not unimaginable, and I don't expect you to drop it for me. Never in a million years would I expect that.

Everyone is suspicious of people that do what I do, and for good right. Do you know how ill I feel when I hear of people with no actual charity number scamming people and letting them believe they're helping but really just taking everything? I think its vile.

Actually, I don't like to call on pensioners, I have grand parents and I know how nice they are so I won't bother anyone of their age, it's just a thing that I can't do. I'm teased about it in the office and some days when I don't reach targets, they say "should have signed the elderly woman at the top of the road". I imagine and understand that majority of people in my trade do focus on this group of people as their target audience, however, I can't.

Yes, you're right, it is my job, it is how I earn a living, if that's what you want to call it. I'm not well payed, and I'm far from rich, but I get by. I do feel that maybe, just maybe that last guy could help. That's my motivation when I'm being ****ed on in December. However, I do understand it. Nope, I know that I'm not superior to volunteers, in fact, they are superior to me, taking time from their free time to do it. I am only saying that although those volunteers are lovely and a great asset, the fact of the matter is simply that somebody doing it five days a week and fifty two weeks a year will just have signed more for the charity.

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

You are utterly self-deluded with your crap about curing cancer and saving the homeless.

The only people who do your job for more than a day or two out of sheer desperation, are ones who not give a **** about anyone other than themselves.

I pity you.

My opinion and yours differ unfortunately.

There are people who have been at it a long time and most of them are pretty horrible people, you wouldn't tar all Irish people with one stereotype or opinion, kindly, don't do the same to people in my profession