Furniture sales. Just started at la-z-boy over a month ago, and I fcuking love it.
brb 20 years old
brb no college education
brb interact with different people every day and help them put together their house
brb on track to make $50-60k this year (SRS)
brb potential to make $80k per year (this WILL come for me with experience and product knowledge)
brb flirting with rich college bishes designing their dorm
brb plenty of free time every day to bullchit
brb key to the store
brb have my own desk
brb 401k, health and dental insurance, etc
YES it is 100% commission and I was as skeptical of this as anyone else, but I've learned that you basically have to be a moron/socially inept loser (most of the misc) to not hit your goal every month.
Greet the customer, engage in casual conversation, be charming, find out what they want and what it needs to match, take them to a product or 2 or 3 that will work, romance the features, advantages, and benefits of the product, sell added features and warranties, then go for the kill. Ring them up, then bullchit in your free time waiting for your next opportunity. Collect paycheck and repeat.
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08-11-2012, 06:18 PM #1
ITT I aware you on the strongest entry-level job for any age w/o college education
Savage 'bout my cabbage.
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08-11-2012, 06:30 PM #12
I remember walking into some furniture store around my area one time and being annoyed as fuk and raging a little bit by the time I left cause the sales people were harassing me.
Literally every area that I went to in the store (its a big store and wasn't busy) someone would come up to me with the same nonsense about how I can get credit if I wanted that and asked what I was looking for. One guy literally followed my girlfriend and I around the store staying about 30 yards behind us at all times. He came awkwardly running up to us just before we left trying to sell us something.
Was very annoying.
Please don't be one of these people OP.
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08-11-2012, 06:33 PM #16
very dependent on your location...socioeconomic demo-graph of location...but lets assume that lay-z-boy isnt going to put a store in the middle of the ghetto so even in a predominantly middle-class, mid-sized community you should do "alright"
anything in the oil and gas industry would blow away furniture sales WITHOUT a college education...albeit not as "cushy" a job..not being a prick OP but I've paid more in taxes this year already than your predicted annual commission
if you want more info on how I got into it PM me
I did sales right out of high school selling sport bikes, cruisers, jet skis etc. and sales was not for me...very cut-throat and I drove home every night wondering if the customer would come in and sign the next day like they said they would...or spend 3 hours with someone making the sale only to find out they had declared bankruptcy the month before and couldnt finance anything...additionally it's very feast or famine and dependent on the economy and peoples discretionary income...also I'm not familiar with the high selling times for furniture but I would bank your checks so you have a cushion for the winter months when perhaps sales could cool...
but congrats, at least you have a job...and making decent money for 20yrs old...there are alot of 50yr olds with families out there who are struggling from lay-offs etc...tough times
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