Alex Manley
Eng111-N53B
DIAGNOSTIC ESSAY
I do not know if I could pick the best job that I have had. I can however choose the most interesting one without a question.
During the summer of my senior year in high school I worked as a door to door canvasser offering home owners free estimates for replacement windows. Probably the best part of the job was the knowledge I gained in sales and dealing with people. People that more often that not were not happy to that I had interrupted whatever they were doing when I knocked on their door.
I got the job thru a friend of mine I knew from school. He told me how the job had good hours and that he was making good money giving out these free estimates. The job didn’t sound too hard and I decided to go check it out. The next day I went to work with my buddy. When I got there a manager gave me a sheet of paper with a sales pitch on it and told me I had 30 minutes to memorize it, and then I would have to give the pitch to him. I guess I did well enough because I started work that day. I started off following my friend up to doors to see how he did it and when someone was interested I would write down their information. After doing that for most of the day, I finally worked up the courage to try a house myself. The first house I went up to I somehow signed up for the next day and I thought this could be a perfect job for me. I showed up for my second day a few days later I found that the house I had signed up got new windows for the entire house and I had made $250 already. More of our friends started working there, and after a while almost half the canvassers were friends of mine. We had tons of good times. I
As it turns out I am not the best salesman, I only had three or four more sales in the seven months I had that job. I quit the job when golf season started up for school, but in the end the job gave me some great memories and life lessons that I work soon forget.
Eng111-N53B
DIAGNOSTIC ESSAY
I do not know if I could pick the best job that I have had. I can however choose the most interesting one without a question.
During the summer of my senior year in high school I worked as a door to door canvasser offering home owners free estimates for replacement windows. Probably the best part of the job was the knowledge I gained in sales and dealing with people. People that more often that not were not happy to that I had interrupted whatever they were doing when I knocked on their door.
I got the job thru a friend of mine I knew from school. He told me how the job had good hours and that he was making good money giving out these free estimates. The job didn’t sound too hard and I decided to go check it out. The next day I went to work with my buddy. When I got there a manager gave me a sheet of paper with a sales pitch on it and told me I had 30 minutes to memorize it, and then I would have to give the pitch to him. I guess I did well enough because I started work that day. I started off following my friend up to doors to see how he did it and when someone was interested I would write down their information. After doing that for most of the day, I finally worked up the courage to try a house myself. The first house I went up to I somehow signed up for the next day and I thought this could be a perfect job for me. I showed up for my second day a few days later I found that the house I had signed up got new windows for the entire house and I had made $250 already. More of our friends started working there, and after a while almost half the canvassers were friends of mine. We had tons of good times. I
As it turns out I am not the best salesman, I only had three or four more sales in the seven months I had that job. I quit the job when golf season started up for school, but in the end the job gave me some great memories and life lessons that I work soon forget.
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